Steve Martin on how to look at abstract art | MoMA BBC | THE WAY I SEE IT

WHAT LOW LEVEL INTELLIGENCED CREATURES. ABSTRACT RUBBISH. LMFAO. 😆

Total fraud.

I got healed!!! I just prayed!!!

i think somebody had too much wine to drink🍷🍷🍷😸

I see two ponds like a birds eye view land scape looking down from the sky but idk

Abstract artists are so lazy that viewers have to imagine what should've been on the canvas already and force themselves to enjoy it. Lol. But seriously these are for house decoration not art galleries.

I can see elon musk

I don't consider abstract art like this to be skillful art or expensive art, but rather decorative art. Anyone can do this. No "connaisseur" ever convinced me from the opposite. If you look at this one "painting" by Pollock, where he dropped color on a board in form of "action painting" and see the prize of hundreds of million of dollars, that's what convinces me that the art world is crazy. Because I can't see art in "paintings" like that of Pollock. To me it's just color randomly dropped on a board. Hundreds of millions of dollars? No way. To me art is better the less people can do what you did. To me that's the definition of skillful art. Of course art must not be realistic. But it should be somewhat skillful. When someone tapes a banana at the wall and declares that to be art, then that is ridiculous. The best art critics to me are the cleaning people in a museum. If they think it's trash and remove it, then it's very likely trash and not art.

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Beautiful! Thank you 🙂

The man is enjoying the artwork.

I love the larger painting and I could look at it a long time. The blue draws me in. I am not usually a fan of abstract painting.

The smaller one I could appreciate if I looked at it longer. I can see there is depth and story in it. Not my favorite colors.

Both paintings were done by skilled artists. That’s obvious.

It's upside down!

I'm sorry disappoint you sir but it's a face I will send you one of my pictures

Yup abstract is subjective like atheism.

He's right in that given time to observe, even an abstract piece of art starts revealing meanings to the viewer but that's simply because that's what the brain does - it interprets the data and prepares for the future. That's how pareidolia works. As an artist myself, I argue that looking at abstract art and trying (or, at least not resisting) to identify it with what one has deposit over the years in his/her memory is totally missing the point. If abstract art teaches us anything, I'm convinced, that is that there is beauty within the structures beyond the macro-world where we have formed and long exercised ideas about reality. And not that beauty is what we should be seeking necessarily, but maybe knowledge. Let abstract art evade us from the paradigms.

Steve Martin had such insight. Loved how he's not limited by theory.

WHAT A BRAINWASHING! I can't believe so many people fall for it. See something which is not there- pseudo- art.

This about sums up modern art. Three pretentious bags of wind staring at a canvas wasted by a pointless assortment of meaningless shapes and pretending it is the greatest thing ever.

Knobs.

We need a comedian to explain this!!!

Best comedy he’s done 😊

I love that what Steve Martin say, the work of art changes every day with our observation. It depends on how we feel and how we observe the art. Every eye has its painter and this is the power of the abstract. 👨‍👩‍👧🏠💙

Those pieces were formerly owned by convicted scammer Gavin Velour. They were confiscated by the government and sold in order to help provide compensation to the victims of his pyramid scheme.

He miscounted the men.

"Could you introduce yourself to a British audience." Who doesn't know who Steve Martin is? Well, probably my 5 year old, but that's about it.

Clear evidence that ( in abstract art as well as in life 'out there" ) we create what we perceive. It is not just hanging around out there somewhere to be perceived. Artists have known this all along - tens of thousands of years minimum and Kandinsky more recently. Abstract art starts at the beginning of this knowing without having to drag one along through the object represented from somewhere else. If Martin keeps this up then he might someday actually ask himself: " Hmmmmm....I wonder who it is that knows about all these things I see in this picture..... and where are they really .... anyway? Hmmmmm "

This is pathetic.

So how to look at an abstract painting is to try to imagine what it is, and to do so drop by museum often?

And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment: (Hebrews 9:27)
Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the LORD, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon. (Isaiah 55:7)
For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. (Romans 10:13)
The LORD is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit. (Psalms 34:18)

True Abstract art should not represent anything but convey a emotional experience. Similar to Instrumental Music, it to is a form of Art that is not physical, cannot be represented in the physical. Music is in the Meta Physical, the emotional, the spiritual. You can't say what it is you just feel and experience. That is how Abstract should be looked at. Not overthinking not placing an interpretation or familiarized, Not thouched by Human history or earthly landscape, not tainted by politics.

It's not anything but beautiful colors and shapes just like a music is beautiful sounds. Both unexplainable but convey feelings.

The image on the left is the body of a man in grief

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are you guys serious? I bet the guy who painted this didn't mean any of things you're saying. if you look at the sand long enough, you'll see patterns but that's how our mind works, doesn't mean the painting is great or it has a landscape...

We can admire Steve Martin for stepping outside his bailiwick to appreciate art. However, really now, we do not need a lesson on how to appreciate fine art coming from him. I would encourage him to keep learning about paintings and art history. But I would advice the film crews to not memorialize his learning process for the rest of us.

I can see a lady on the painting to the right, she is wearing a long blue skirt and a reddish top, her hair is black. There maybe three who say what art is? The spiritual, the artist and the viewer. I love art and do art, when I see people and other things of interest on my canvas of colors, I bring them to the canvas more via the paint.

I see modren art like this every day in clouds wat ever i imagne clouds have that shape is it modren art?

I look at it as if it NEEDS to go into a dumpster.

what a scam lol

Interesting. "A picture is worth a thousand words." Everyone sees something different in an image based on their own unique perception of the world, their environment and life experience. If you tell me there's a stream and mountain, I would look again and see it, when before, I only saw a deep abyss or a chocolate sundae. And maybe, when we look at Van Gogh's Sunflowers and see only a vase of sunflowers, others may see something else in that thick paint ... anger perhaps, or greed and frustration. Art is so flippin' personal and I'm so grateful for the artists who move me to open my eyes and see.

That's a portrait.

Everyone is a painting expert now days lol

Nothing to look at here 🤣🤣

Abstract art runs a broad gamut. Most of it is either the essence of rubbish or incomprehensible gibberish, like someone speaking in tongues. I found this to be pleasant at first glance. In time, it would be likely to grow on me, but because of the mere simplicity, the small number of elements and details on which to ponder and daydream, I suspect I would quickly tire of it if I were exposed to it for a long time. Endurance is the true test of excellence, and modern art, by definition, has never faced that test. Very few 20th or 21st century works of art are displayed in locations where any more than a few people view them for any more than a few minutes, any more than a few times in their lives. Odds are, most of us will never look at this work again.

I see what looks like some kind of goat head sitting with his legs spread and knees bent (kind of like a woman giving birth)And then it’s like he’s farting and you can see the Gust of air coming from the Butthole area

I understood abstract art only after i took shrooms. I don't think you get what the painting means when you just quess the landscape or something that is maybe in there. To me abstract art shows us true meaning of things that we don't see and understand normally.

It's amazing. I saw dancers in both. Abstract art is cool it that sense.

Yes, subjective. Yes, no criteria. Yes, it goes nowhere because it's a personal experience, just like anything else in life, that's why you'll never succeed as an artist because it's controlled by an industry created by the rich who make use of this subjectivity for profit. Who cares?! No one! And even if you care, it doesn't make a difference. Do you want to be an artist? Make sure you make "friends" first.

When I look at a painting, I simply see what is there and then try to discern the meaning the artist intended to communicate rather than try to come up with my own meaning and interpretation. In one, I saw a jumble of shapes of different colors that also formed lines that ran across the canvas in a heap of chaos. In the other I see some shapes put together in an intentional way to create curves and lines on a black background with a multicolored mass of lumps in the lower left corner. What the artist is probably trying to do is leave their paintings completely open to interpretation with no real intended meaning on their own part.

I think Steve's projecting. The woman is right.