Driftwood sculptures

[expat]

Hmmm, I figured the picture showing the two women assembling one of the horses would prove how they were done....

LMAO....I think the one lady that is using the drill might prove there isn't a real horse being used as a template...

Or the fact that you can see through said horse or yet then, it could be an invisible stunt horse8)

Matt

[Scorpiоn]

I don't tnink they look fake or posed, per se...  but I was a bit dissappointed to see it was all just horses.  You'd have to have lots of time and talent on your hands I think.

[Hagar]

This looks like the work of Heather Jansch. http://www.courcoux.co.uk/sculptors/jansch02/jansch_foreword.htm

She doesn't only do horses but they look so natural it's obvious she's very familiar with them. Fantastic.

[expat]

I know one mans artist is another mans "Turner", but 20 grand

http://www.courcoux.co.uk/sculptors/nutting3.htm

Matt

[Fozzer]

I know one mans art is another mans "Turner", but 20 grand

http://www.courcoux.co.uk/sculptors/nutting3.htm

Matt

At the moment, Fozzers driftwood wood garden seat sculpture is on offer for the princely sum of 50 pence...or less...
...buyer collects...

Paul......!

[Romulus111VADT]

At the moment, Fozzers driftwood wood garden seat sculpture is on offer for the princely sum of 50 pence...or less...
...buyer collects...

Paul......!

Wow, a talented sculptor and reasonably price. You really got it going on.....

[JBaymore]

I know one mans artist is another mans "Turner", but 20 grand

Matt,

Those horses are stunning!

[Romulus111VADT]

Wow, now that's one heck of an in depth analysis. Sure puts things into the proper perspective. Well said!  :o

[expat]

John, I think you have really miss-understood me.

The wooden horses are stunning, no doubt about it. I have greatly admired the examples that I have seen at the Eden Project. There is a foal lying down, that from a few feet away, looks just that, a horse lying down.

However, the link that I gave as an example, I stand by my remark. Ok, it looks somewhat like a horse, but welding a few bits of scrap metal together and charging 20 thousand pounds for something like that. Give me a break.  A piece of fine pottery, a Constable, a Faberge Egg, that is art. Unfortunately, it is no longer trendy to recognize a stunning piece of art and say so. To really appreciate a piece of alternate art or Tuner as I prefer to call it today, we have to listen and understand the personal anguish and torment that some artist had to go through in order to truly feel worthy of having such a "piece" in our homes, if we could afford it in the first place.  People like Tracy Emit and Damion Hurst, have managed to get very rich by producing, sorry, but at the end of the day, crap. I take my hat off to them, but that is all. Artistic value? It is pretentious bollocks, backed up by the same people who raved about a piece of work that resembled a Jackson Pollock. We had to listen to how much feeling went into it and how much it reflected the inner thoughts of the artist, until they where informed that it was an elephant with a tin of Dulux and a paintbrush.
You produce me a stunning piece of pottery, and I will stand it under my Constable without a hesitation.
I don't mean to offend, or get on my high horse. Art is a very subjective subject. After all, one mans terrorist is another mans freedom fighter. My thoughts are, I think that particular example that I linked is absolute rubbish and the price tag is a joke and I am not afraid to say so.. I just wish I could afford one of the wood examples.

Matt

[JBaymore]

Matt,

Just came back from the studio to grab a bowl of noodles for lunch.


I don't think that I did misunderstand your posting per se'.

[Romulus111VADT]

Far from being a true artist. My only talent is for drawing.

I've only ever sold one drawing- a caricature of a seagull from a novel- "Johnathan Livingston Seagull". I drew it way out of proportion sitting with a can of beer in one wing, smoking a cigar and drunk on his ass. One woman got such a giggle out of it, she offered me $50.00 USD for it. The offer freaked me out so much, I sold it. LMAO, that was 30 years ago or so. One sale in 30 years is pretty bad. So I elected to take up a different line of work....

[expat]

Hi John
Now that you mention the potential direction that the thread was taking, I can see why you jumped in with your point, and a well put point at that. Often when looking at "true art", one blanches at the cost, but when you take into account some of your points, it is clear that to make a good living in this area, you have to be very good, or very lucky, a'la Mr Hurst or Miss Emitt. Shame that the critics did not get to my nieces bedroom first. Unfortunately her fame came from being on "Brat Camp" :-/

Matt

[Hai Perso Coyone?]

Incredible! That looks creepy but very creative

[Fozzer]

Compare the horses with this mindless crap which was exhibited at the Tate Gallery in London in search of the Turner Prize...
...including a pile of house bricks...and a pile of Elephant poo. etc...etc...

http://www.sussex.ac.uk/Units/arthist/s ... ed01.shtml

This is what turns most intelligent folks off modern artists work....
...since Michael Angelo...

Paul....(done a few nice paintings in my time)... ...!

[TacitBlue]

I used to have a freind who ran an art gallery and unfortunately she had to close it. But before she did, I took all of her black plywood display stands and stacked them into a huge wierd shape and put a $500 price tag on it. I told her that if it actually sold, she could keep the money.