Controversial opinion. Banksy is *beep*

I don't know who Banksy is. What I do know for certain is the person in that interview is not Robert Del Naja. That doesn't mean the person interviewed is Banksy, and it doesn't mean Robert Del Naja is not Banksy, but, unequivocally, the person speaking in that interview is not Robert Del Naja.

 

I like Rothko's stuff because I like colour.

 

Where did I say it was? I've made a point in every post that it isn't.

 

All true. I don't mind some of Warhol's stuff. Some I'm not so keen on.

 

"Did you see that painting what Rothko did?
Looks like it was painted by a two year old kid
Hot air
Hot air"
- Stendhal Syndrome, Idles

 

I'm not really up on Rothko and I can't find the one you mean. I do like his use of colour even in the abstract but you can go online and look a loads of stuff on mixing paints etc that show colour swatches that are just as rich and beautiful.
I used to like classical, realistic type art. You can see ultra realism everywhere now. Paintings of every day objects etc that are so exact they can literally be mistaken for reality or a photograph. At which point, for me art departs and you're left with the basically photographic that adds nothing. That sort of stuff, though technically amazing is, to me, just draughtmanship.
My thoughts now are that art should convey something beyond the materials. So, like van gogh, he almost transports you into the cornfield and evokes the silence and the heat.
What I hate is lazy art which just goes, here's a pile of bricks, you do the work and create a meaning for it cos basically it's just a pile of bricks or a banana pinned to a wall.
Again....purely my ramblings and opinions for those who love piles of bricks and walls painted white etc.

 

TBH, I'm not an art expert myself. I like what I like - and not sure what Rothko has done. I just quoted some song lyrics - from a song about Stendhal Syndrome (or Florence Syndrome). This is a condition where people become some overcome on seeing a piece of art they have rapid heartbeat, faint or even start to hallucinate...

 

I felt like that when I couldn’t find my name on the mural in the Eaststand but my lads names were on