What you all like about art?

I like how it makes the walls less blank.

I hate sunsets. lol.

I like people. Not portraits, mind you. I’m a big fan of the pre raphealites. I like van gogh, beardsly, klimpt, schiele, and many others.

Everything about it.
I like how it brings about energy to everything. If you mean just art , i like this post-impressionist technique of drawing paintings with dots only (like Paul Signac). But overall, I am a modernist . I love typography (even though some don’t consider it as a form of art, I am doing a dual major on it), minimalistic design and anything that breaks conventional rules of design

Dogs playing poker. I think that’d make a great painting.

If only someone would paint it.

@poser: theres actually a cartoon picture about dogs playing poker. I’ll try looking it up

I like how art is an expression of humanity (or inhumanity as the case may be at times). In this day and age where our world is so filled with computers, machines and other inorganic interactions, it’s very refreshing to feel that connection with people, and to experience the world the way the artist wants you to, if only for a brief period.

I like beautiful things made by hand. Or thought-provoking things made by hand.

Someone I knew when I was in college has a room in her house where everything is handmade – the desk, the chair, the carpet, the art on the walls. That seems to me to be a great thing to aspire to.

Art is subjective…You like what you like….

I took a ceramics class, and couldn’t believe some of the pieces that passed as “good” art. I tend to think things should be functional, then beautiful. I don’t understand the point of a random lump of clay that serves no purpose.

While I agree that when something is created with the intent to be used, then it should be judged based on how well it serves it’s intended function. However, ceramics that were never intended to be used for anything other than their own aesthetic merits have a different function, and ought to be judged differently imho.

Maybe it would help to think of those pieces as physical manifestations of philosophical questions the artist is tying to answer through artistic experimentation. For example, they may be trying to determine what the boundary of what a bowl is, and when it becomes a plate, and so will push the limits of that form to get a better understanding of how that works. Another example might have to do with color and mood and whereby the artist is trying to see the effects of various colors on how an object might be able to elicit a physical response in the observer. At least that’s how I try to understand why people make objects that are otherwise completely useless.

naked people. seriously.