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Desire fine art in your yard? Can't afford primo sculpture?
Well, just pick a sculpture from our website (or pick from our
popular monthly newsletter), and choose a time for
deliverance.
Then, at the appointed time, one of our 21rst century
sculptors shows up at your requested time, & puts
a block of
stone on a turntable. She sets up the laser/scanner, loads the
proper file, & sips tea with you making polite conversation
while the sculpture is ablated before your eyes.
For extra, we'll scan your body (or other things) & make
custom sculptures on-site. (Enlargement/shrinkage of
features optional).
Kitsch
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitsch
there are some perfect examples of the type of work much admired by [skoomphemph] here [xenzag, Mar 28 2014]
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What you specifically haven't invented is a method of sculpting rock [edit: laser], leaving us with a guy shows up with a rock and has a cup of tea with you... I will do that for gas money... I have done that for gas money. |
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Sandblasting might work - I think automated chiseling wouldn't. |
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Sorry Seniore Air Heater. I thought the HB
community could easily envision a laser that was
powerful enough to ablate (destroy a bit) of rock, &
could be positioned by a a simple set of motors,
controlled by a laptop, so I kept the orig description
short as such. |
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Done & done, i change tone henceforth to profess
much admiration for all of FlyingToaster's ideas &
contributions to the glorious HB. |
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I simply meant that the material-removal-process-
by-computer be a rather trivial component unworthy
of explanation to the HB community. |
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I'm sure laser ablation could be made to work. |
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However, some shapes would be problematic, unless
you had a cleverly articulated laser head that could
reach into crevices not accessible from the
periphery. |
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yes, well, I read "laser/scanner" as "laser scanner" for some reason, defaulting to "chisel" as sculpting tool. |
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Is this a statement on mass production and the mass commercialization of art cos that's baked. |
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I think you'll find that rock carving of any kind is no longer considered to be sculpture. You could of course create a perfect in every detail replica of a dingy, discarded hat, and engage in a form of post-modern irony. |
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// I think you'll find that rock carving of any kind is no longer considered to be sculpture.// |
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Do you have some technical definition there?
Because common parlance, and Wikipedia, disagree. |
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I think [xenzag] just missed the capital S, there. By current aesthetic tastes (I mean those of people apparently in the know), a marble replica of a naked human being is a nice enough sculpture for the likes of us to use as the leg of the birdbath, but is not Sculpture. |
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Another good example of Sculpture might be a mangled tube of toothpaste with yellow stuff oozing out. Hang it from a very high roof with barbed wire, and you're really in business. |
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//a marble replica of a naked human being// Next time you are looking up definitions spend some time in the section labelled Kitsch Art. (see link) |
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I think it might still be possible to polish a stone (if it's big enough) and call that a Sculpture - even if the stone is made out of rock. It's certainly a safer bet than eg. using the 3 Graces to hold up the bird bath. Even if they're made of recycled plastic bags. |
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A bird bath that is actually a kind of rat trap for sparrows might be a Sculpture, too, although it's perhaps not ecological enough any more? This kind of thing is quite difficult to bet on, to tell the truth. |
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Ah, yes. When the definition of "fine art" contains
elitism, then, by definition, you cannot bring fine
art to the masses. |
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My point of the idea was to bring "fine art" to the
masses through automated, computer-controlled
ablation to make replicas of anything, using better
materials than plastic or plaster molds. |
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How "fine" (v. kitsch) it is should be based on what
you're replicating, not the replication process. We
now have better replicating processes. |
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Why restrict appreciation of the finer arts to fewer
of the 7B+ people? |
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Who restricts anyone from appreciating anything? You missed the point I was making, which was by definition that the process of carving objects out of stone is NOT called sculpture. It used to be, but now it's called Stone Carving. Contemporary practice no longer focuses on acquiring and refining a singular skill, such as engraving or carving materials. There was a time when these were the only method of production, but that is no longer the case. As with painting process, the ability to replicate "realism" has lost its value. People still do it, but it has no place of merit in contemporary practice. |
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The first rule of Art Club is you don't talk about Art Club.
The second rule of Art Club is you don't talk about Art Club.
The third rule of Art Club is fight about what is good, not what is Art. |
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So actually [sophocles] is dead on the money, and well within the reach of the literal meaning of his stated intent. (Well actually *one* of the literal meanings, but that makes my head spin, so I'll settle for a little inaccuracy). |
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Skill is no longer needed, so the very last middleman (the sculptor) can be eliminated. I propose a new wave! Put all new art where it belongs: In beautiful algorithms. The algorithm becomes the True Art, but everyone can keep a physical execution instance simply as a memento of some encounter with True Art. This could be a "picture" - actually a 2D graph of the output (which is actually what the Mona Lisa was when it was once Art). This could be a sculpture (without the S) - a 3D trace of an instance of Art. This could be a cartoon - which has a somewhat 4D quality. |
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At last the 21st century has some artistic innovation to get its teeth into. A nice way to record your encounter with Art would be to call for the machine, above, and keep a little sculpture that results. |
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If you're lucky, it might even be adaptable to holding up the birdbath. |
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