Surrealism as an internet art form

[Weltall]

Click here to see what I mean.

This is rather enthralling. It makes no sense whatsoever, but it's neat to see what they throw at you next. Someone put some real effort into it.

[Great Rumbler]

Weird.

[Dark Jaguar]

It's wiggy, but if there is no meaning, if it isn't meant to convey something the viewer can relate to, it's just not art.

[Weltall]

There's a lot of art that has no apparent meaning. Yet, if it means something even only to the person who created it, it's art. And I can't imagine something that complex was created just out of sheer boredom.

[A Black Falcon]

Tell that to abstract modern art...

[Great Rumbler]

That's not art! THIS is art!

[lazyfatbum]

That's awesome, i've never seen 'internet art' before. I've seen electronic, i've seen interactive, i've seen bizzaro modernism, but never a collection of websites meant to inspire reflection of the essense of the internet. pretty sweet. I really liked the news paper clippings and what not that made reference to the global web being a frightening ideal instead of one we should embrace while the next thing after that was a collection of dog breeds and their names - fear of the unknown versus natural practical use? I dunno if he thought that deep, but he certainly got me to

It needs much, much more pornography though.

[Dark Jaguar]

It just started repeating itself for me, on that solitair game.

Yeah I can see that sort of thing, it's like a good animutation.

On the other hand, a painting of a single line means absolutely nothing. It has to be explained to have any meaning to anyone, in which case the only artistic merit is in the actual description. I'm all for abstract stuff, like the disintegration of time painted soon after Einstein... disintegrated our idea of constant time. That can actually be related to and understood. Feces smeared on a wall in a completely random pattern? No meaning there because the viewer can only invent meaning rather than intuit it.

As you can tell, I'm not of the opinion that ANYTHING can be called art. The reason is simple. If art can be defined as anything, then the definition of "art" is now exactly the same as the definition of "anything". There's just no getting around that. Art has to have some identity of it's own that seperates it from "anything" if it is to actually serve a purpose other than the word "anything" does. I'm pretty sure all emotion that isn't chemically induced (and in those cases that emotion is felt regardless of thoughts currently being... thunk) has to be a result of some logical process, so I'm pretty sure art has to have a definition that makes some logical sense. "Anything is art" makes no logical sense if one is trying to convey what art does that seperates it from something else. I don't know... perhaps a more accurate definition would be "anything can be used FOR art, or can have an artistic characteristic", but that only gives a characteristic to the anythings, not art specically. That still must be defined.

Oh yeah, I like corn but not on the cob.

[A Black Falcon]

That's not art! THIS is art!

Escher is awesome. :)

[Dark Jaguar]

Indeed, and may I say that almost resembles the appearence of worlds in Kingdom Hearts, only better because it's all crazy go nuts. I can relate to it because it shows me exactly where my ability to create an image of the world around me fails.

[Great Rumbler]

So is Salvador Dali.

[Dark Jaguar]

I prefer the one he made after that, the disintegration of time. It's basically that one, only shattering apart to see the maw of... a bunch of cubes.

Both are basically his attempt to capture Einstein's steady decent into awesome.

[Great Rumbler]

This?

[Dark Jaguar]

There ya go.