ART. Not .ART - A Documentary about Contemporary Art

A Documentary explaining the controversial scene of Contemporary Art to whom do not see it as Art.

Producer : Lilian Al Hakim
Director of Photography: Hind Anabtawi
Director: Peter Moussa

[artconsciousness]

I find it interesting that; if a piece of art, like banana taped to the wall, was taken out of the gallery, would it still be art? I'm not sure, but I am certain it would have less of an affect if it was on the wall in someone's house and probably just laughed at. This suggests that a lot of modern art needs the gallery in order to be validated. However, if a painting of a landscape, a portrait, or a still life, was taken out of a gallery, then we all would still recognise it as art. A painting stands for itself, it does not need a gallery to validate it. I also found it interesting that this documentary began with showing the huge prices of art today, which in itself tells a lot.

[chandraprabhasolanki]

to me, art is doodling in my book
and remembering how i felt at the time when i see it the next time

[aaimba]

There are always these three entities of an art piece. The artists' intention (if there is any), the viewers' reception or emotional attachment received, and the art piece itself which doesn't care about any of the previous entities. It doesn't care about its existence and when it does exist, it never questions itself. Every one of these entities stands for themselves and are not comparable. So since it is nearly impossible to get the artists' intention, the experience of oneself is the most important.

[ichinokuren]

“Those who know that they are profound strive for clarity. Those who would like to seem profound to the crowd strive for obscurity. For the crowd believes that if it cannot see to the bottom of something it must be profound. It is so timid and dislikes going into the water.”

― Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science

[raveewat]

9:58 “Don’t believe what you read about art. Believe what you see and what you feel. When you look at it. That’s the truth. The truth is in the world and if you don’t see it. Then find another work where you do see. You don’t pay attention to what other say or think or is high or low or in the middle or expensive or famous. Just find something you like” (Michael Findlay)

[GregorysMode]

A person stands in front of a painting a proceeds to inform you about that painting, its depths its meaning. The truth is, you have as much idea about that painting as they do. It has always been this way. The only question is..Does an art piece speak to you, or not.

[ArwenUndomiel]

Art that has to be in a museum in order to be considered art, is not art.

[ChEkAlOtIcH]

Art has become a business that rich people use to feel intellectual

[rrfirefly]

Let's just say, judging by the extreme variety of objects and experiences one finds in galleries and museums, that there is currently no consensus on what art is. Many recent exhibitions at the Venice Biennale have become entertainment for the easily bored. Two seconds here, two seconds there. Nothing sticks.

[cutway]

The development of Art and its legitimate discoveries ended with Picasso. IMHO. Art became self conscious. In a panic, the rush to be the next great innovator, Art critics and gallery owners became, like junk bond salesmen, the commodity mongers of the 20th century. Throw anything at the canvas, into a room, hang it from the ceilings, if we call it art, it must be. The great con line...”they laughed at Picasso, so your laughter at this must mean it is art.”

[drakeviv]

Great work of art does not require any explanation about its beauty.

[bobmims]

The cinematography is very artful and nicely done! 💪👁

[renzo]

So called Contemporary Art ( that which began in the 1060's ) art is, essentially, a 180 degree departure from what we have traditionally thought of as “art”. 
And by art, I mean the visual arts: painting, drawing, sculpture architecture etc. 
The big problem is that while the traditional visual arts have a millenniums long history, this new kid on the block, does not. 
Sculpture has evolved from The Venus of Willendorf to the Great Sphinx, the Venus De Milo, Michelangelo's David up to Rodin, the Statue of Liberty and Alexander Calder. 
The arts of painting and drawing can be traced back to the cave paintings of Lascaux in France to The Sistine Chapel, Monet and Degas, Mark Rothko and beyond. 
And through all of the changes, these art forms have stayed essentially the same:making marks on paper, canvas, wood, plaster etc. and building up forms in three dimensions as sculpture and architecture. 
Along with the evolution of these art genres has developed a language and a set of criteria that form standards by which such pieces can be critiqued, evaluated and placed in historical context. And while some people might like the lurid landscapes of Thomas Kinkade, his paintings are not and should not be hung alongside the landscapes of Church, Cole, van Gogh, Cézanne and Thiebaud. 
There IS such a thing as bad art and we know what it looks like and why!
It is called aesthetics. 
This cannot be said of Contemporary art.

All sorts of crappy, bogus and hare brained stuff is piled up or strewn across the floors of museums and exalted as art because no one knows or can know what is worthy and what is not.
So you get pieces of blank white paper crumpled up in a ball, three basketballs suspended in a fish tank and cans of human excrement.

[Tuose]

Really cool video. Now that that I see it, I do in fact remember art I stopped to look at for more than a minute, more than the art I just took photos of. My belief is that the art has to intrigue you, or make you say "how was that made". Though I feel bad because this video (why i'm here) was probably used for many schools as an assignment. I can see the 10 year olds comments about how none of the art makes sense, and... "the chain thing was such bullshi8t xD really cool vid for the most part though', thanx"

Though really great video, it showed me that even someones experiment can be a form of art, like the %6 rings.

[BythepeopleForthepeople]

Telling the truth alone these days is a revolutionary act.
So, then, going back to representational art would be revolutionary in the same fashion.
There. That's the evolution of art again.

[nitrovanoss]

I am a student from art university and I have something to say
A canvas painting with a streak or black and white (or any color) is not an art, it's a bullshit out of the landfill

[grotty]

There is much creative art being produced this past 13/4 months because of Covid 19, amazing work.

[raymondmeyers]

Art is supposed to be a representation of the artists vision and their skill in expressing it. When an artist insults you with a bunch of rotten bananas on the floor, it tells you more about the artist than their “vision”.

[AwwesomeVal]

I think the main problem is that people intentionally try making things they personally don't think of as art, and then see if they can sell it for absurds amount of money.

People who actually want to create art do, and those are the truly amazing artists. How much the art sells for is completely irrelevant. Rich people clearly are gullible if they are spending millions on an empty canvas. There is 0 possibilities that artist didn't know what they were doing, and I bet they laughed about it when they got home. Wanting to get rich on stupid stuff and creating art are 2 different things.

And don't get me wrong here - the majority of what is presented as art in the video is truly art. But a canvas that contains nothing is not art.

[christianeblais]

Very very interesting video, fascinating subject and very well treated in this reportage. Admiration and gratitude from Tuscany