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The most talented person on this show...

posted 12 years ago by Ham_Dog
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...was some third rate artist from that tiny town where they chose their portrait subject.

These people aren't artists!

Of the final five, one girl snapped a picture of a couple, projected it onto a wall, and traced the photo. She ended up producing a stunningly bad caricature.

Another girl snapped a photo of a fireman, blew it up, and pounded out the image onto a piece of tin. Again, tracing.

The last girl snapped a shot of two dudes who owned a coin shop - she didn't even bother tracing, she just stuck the picture on her piece and surrounded it with tin foil. Her overall work consisted of photographs of dollar bills. (Her most praiseworthy work of the season came when she traced a picture of herself from a photograph and wrote words on it - it was total junk!)

The guy with the beard took a picture of a little girl, photoshopped it to allow for 'paint by numbers' coloring, and filled it in with M&M's.

The gay guy had a real artist paint a portrait of him while he snapped photos of the real artist. The real artist produced a mediocre portrait of him and in the process created the greatest work of art ever seen on this show. It may also be the first time anyone on this show has used paint, a brush and a canvas to create art! The gay guy then sliced up the pictures he took, stuck them on a bunch of 2x4's and laid the pieces of wood haphazardly around the real artist's painting.

One of the judges suggested his piece would've been much better if he had just used the real artist's portrait, without his own foolish picture sticks, which is hilariously insulting.

The fact that this show is called "the next great artist" is a joke. Artists don't trace. I'd love to see what these jokers could come up with if they weren't allowed to use a camera. I was better than these fools when I was seven years old.

That being said the tin fireman chick is the most talented of the bunch, and one damn good tracer!

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[–] kay_cee_d 12 years ago

Of the final five, one girl snapped a picture of a couple, projected it onto a wall, and traced the photo. She ended up producing a stunningly bad caricature.

Where in this episode do we see Kymia project the image and trace it? I rewatched and I'm not seeing anything. She said herself that she doesn't understand tracing and never traces photographs so what are you talking about? She looked at the photo she took (not a crime) and drew it freehand.

She ended up producing a stunningly bad caricature.

In YOUR opinion. I thought it was great and crazy, which represent the couple very well. There's nothing wrong with caricature, don't be a snob. I'm not completely sure, but I know that Kymia took some illustration classes (we went to the same school at different times and a couple friends talked about her in their illustration classes and how good her technical skill was), so of course that is going to inform her art. Lots of illustrators use caricature, doesn't make the art less good.

It may also be the first time anyone on this show has used paint, a brush and a canvas to create art!

Are you saying this is the only type of legitimate art? I don't get your point...and yes people HAVE used paint, a brush and a canvas...have you been watching? Lots of artists use various materials, paint isn't the only *legitimate* medium. And you seem to be against photography as well. Another legitimate medium, I took photography classes in college and creating good photography work that means something requires conceptual skill just like painting. You seem to be basing what a *real artist* is on technical skill.

[–] Ham_Dog 12 years ago

I've seen people do better caricatures at the mall.

Are you saying this is the only type of legitimate art?

No.

You seem to be basing what a *real artist* is on technical skill.

No, I'm basing it on what I see.

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[–] rdpepper 12 years ago

Kay cee

I didn't see her trace either, she just used to photo but drew it freehand. I guess people missed how well she captured the characters and whimsy of the people, I thought it was amazing, with all the background drawings of the items.

[–] kay_cee_d 12 years ago

I agree with DawnMW, realism isn't the only style of art. Conceptual and experimental art is also valid and important.

[–] Ham_Dog 12 years ago

I agree with DawnMW, realism isn't the only style of art.

I never said it was.

Conceptual and experimental art is also valid and important.

Not always.

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[–] mptnla 12 years ago

bump. Andy Warhol blows up the image of a Campbell's soup can and the whole world goes nuts and labels him he one of the world's greatest artists. I see no problem with what the contestants did.

"I hope she didn't take my attempt to destroy her too seriously."

[–] Ham_Dog 12 years ago

Andy Warhol blows up the image of a Campbell's soup can and the whole world goes nuts and labels him he one of the world's greatest artists. I see no problem with what the contestants did.

I agree that Andy Warhol blows, but beyond that I have no clue what your point is.

My problem with what the contestants did was that the vast majority of it sucked.

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[–] mptnla 12 years ago

Then you DO get the point. Warhol didn't reinvent the wheel, and the Marilyn Monroes under color filters have become regarded as major works. A lot of people considered a blown up portrait of a Campbell's soup can as being art. I think it's rubbish, but many people loved it and imitated it. It's all subjective.

"I hope she didn't take my attempt to destroy her too seriously."

[–] rdpepper 12 years ago

Of course, no one views art with the same eye as another person. With programs like Photoshop, anyone can be an "artist" if they know how to click a mouse.

[–] riddle13 12 years ago

anyone can be an artist if they yet breathe. an artist is not a member of some elite club; he or she is merely a human who expresses their will through material. the product of that expression is always art, whether it be 'bad' or 'good' and independent of the materials used or the intentions of the artist.

[–] rdpepper 12 years ago

You don't even need to be human, elephants and monkeys have made various paintings, some are better than ones I have seen in galleries!

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[–] Ham_Dog 12 years ago

Millions of people have the ability and skill to paint beautiful, realistic pictures of people and landscapes.

Really? I'll agree that millions of people have the ability to paint, but beyond that I totally disagree.

When the show asked them to create portraits, they were certainly not expecting them to go out and create realistic paintings of people sitting on stools in an art studio

I know, I can't believe I said that! Oh wait... I didn't.
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[–] Teri313 12 years ago

I agree with everything you said Ham Dog. The only thing you forgot was Lola's bad single line tracing of the Libyan militant taken from a newspaper that the judges thought was brilliant. I don't think it was ever explained that it was a tracing. I know some people think tracing is fine, but please - it's not even like she traced it and then used that image to build off of. That's all she did, trace and present.

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