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Dialogue with Dialogue
Belinda Coleman
Collage that uses sections of thesaurus, alphabet, dictionary, and Lee Ufan’s Dialogue, 2017, acrylic on canvas, National Gallery of Victoria.
User: foolishly-attuned-university-art-lover POSTED 3 days ago
I went to the NGV today and I’ve never seen a more gorgeous artwork! I just had to go home and fill it with words!
red ruby sanguine snow empty bleached
poppy vermillion firetruck cloud paper gap
lipstick pearl wine paisley
It stands out so much in the gallery space! So big and so minimalist. I think this is my new favourite painting. Not the Mona Lisa, not Starry Night! This is my favourite! Have you ever seen anything like it?
I have not.
User: reelartONLY 3d ago
Well thats 5 min of my life I’m not getting back.
User: KarrenCorrects 2d ago
@reelartONLY agreed!
User: NGVcurator 3d ago
Dialogue II is one of our favourites! So much talent! I’m so glad you enjoyed it.
User: foolishly-attuned-university-art-lover 3d ago
@NGVcurator Oh I loved it. I think it was my favourite artwork this visit!
User: KarenCorrects 2d ago
@NGVcurator @foolishly-attuned-university-art-lover
r u SERIOUS! Thats not an impressive painting. Its just big. Dont confide the two
User: NGVcurator 2d ago
@KarenCorects Well. No artwork speaks to everyone. You’re more than welcome to visit our collection at the NGV and check out some of our other pieces. Our permanent collection is free to access at any time.
User: reelartONLY 3d ago
Apparently they let, like anything onto the art gallery they days.
User: knight_in_shining_ARTmour 2d ago
@reelartONLY agreed. Banana on a wall. Broken toilet bowl … and then this.
User: foolishly-attuned-university-art-lover 2d ago
@reelartONLY @knight_in_shining_ARTmour That’s not exactly fair. This painting is stunning.
User: reelartONLY 2d ago
@foolishly-attuned-university-art-lover Like wht R U on?
User: knight_in_shining_ARTmour 2d ago
@reelartONLY read this this morning and it seems so fitting for this artwork too! https://www.forbes.com/sites/danidiplacido/2019/12/09/the-120000-banana-highlights-the-elitism-of-the-art-world
It’s ridiculus that “an elite group of insiders can magically imbue a piece of paper with a massive amount of monetary and cultural value, merely by proclaiming it so.”
User: reelartONLY 2d ago
@knight_in_shining_ARTmour this guy actually makes sense! “memes might be more representative of the human experience than many of the pricey pieces of modern art that fill galleries and auction houses.” So true!
User: foolishly-attuned-university-art-lover 2d ago
@reelartONLY Have u actually looked at this artwork.
User: HIGHschool4Rt 24h ago
@foolishly-attuned-university-art-lover They mad my entire class sit in front off the painting and write down synonyms 4 ‘red’ [furious emoji] I REALLY HATE THIS PAINTING! It was so paaaaaaaiiiiinful!
User: reelartONLY 23h ago
@HIGHschool4Rt that songs do painful! Like ur eyes most have been like bleeding! [big eye emoji] [single tear emoji]
User: foolishly-attuned-university-art-lover 18h ago
@reelartONLY @knight_in_shining_ARTmour But did you really look. Did you go close and look around? Did you study it from different angles? Approach it from a few different directions. Did you really look? With your eyes?
User: knight_in_shining_ARTmour 16h ago
@foolishly-attuned-university-art-lover real art should speak for itself
User: ARTisAWESOME 3d ago
ngl I think this is quite a visually pretty artwork. I don’t like artworks that seem too busy or too angry or are just so abstract that you can’t tell what they actually are. But this artwork is simple, yet elegant.
User: this_uni_student_still_got_brains 2d ago
@ARTisAWESOME But there’s so many imperfections. The paint isn’t smooth. The gradient doesn’t go smoothly. And it’s just such a hujungous empty canvas. Like seriously.
User: sally-is-unimpressed 2d ago
Yeah, @this_uni_student_still_got_brains, have to agreee. This painting doesn’t have teh finish I would expect of a gallery painting either. Its so rudimentary.
User: ARTisAWESOME 2d ago
Idk. All the ‘imperfections’ you mention lend it a certain charm in my opinion.
User: elitist-art-snob 2d ago
The didactic panel says more than the actual artwork. I don’t think this qualifies as real art.
User: lowartisstillart 2d ago
idk @elitist-art-snob the painting has a certain charm and certainly looks far more visually appealing than the description. Besides, would you have even read the description not for the artwork?
User: Dialogue II 2d ago
@elitist-art-snob it’s about dialogue. Even you must see that there is quite a bit of dialogue going on here.
User: elitist-art-snob 2d ago
@Dialogue II What? Someone’s pretending to be the painting now! Honestly. Is this also some poor excuse for art.
User: lowartisstillart 23h ago
@elitist-art-snob it might be worth remembering that art has a long history of being accepted by it’s initial audience. Van Gogh and Monet only became famous after their death. The Eiffel Tower was so hated when it was built that it almost got torn down. The Mona Lisa only became famous because someone stole it. And now all of these have become absolute icons of the art world. You not liking this particular artwork doesn’t mean it’s not art. It just means that for you, for today this artwork doesn’t appeal.
User: elitist-art-snob 16h ago
@lowartisstillart Are you suggesting that just because people have been wrong in the past we cannot make judgements on art?
User: lowartisstillart 16h ago
@elitist-art-snob no, on the contrary, every piece of artwork displayed in the gallery has gone through an extensive judging process. According to Art Market we can “rest assured that the art that comes to your attention has been marked out by people of all stripes who really know their stuff” I recommend you check out the rest of the article, interesting stuff…https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-gatekeepers-tastemakers-decide-call-art
User: elitist-art-snob 15h ago
@lowartisstillart Pah, there are very few good curators nowadays. Just look at what they let into the galleries.
User: Dialogue II 15h ago
Harsh @elitist-art-snob! @lowartisstillart is just saying that all artworks are a dialogue irrespective of whether you like them or not... A sort of dialogue between an artwork and its audience. One viewer being unwilling to enter into that dialogue doesn’t mean that it’s not an artwork. Just that the viewer and the artwork weren’t attuned.
User: elitist-art-snob 12h ago
@Dialogue II are you trying to suggest that you’re on the same level as the Mona Lisa? You can’t even compare.
User: Dialogue II 15h ago
@elitist-art-snob I never made such a comparison. No modern art attempts to. The Mona Lisa is so big in people’s minds that those that go and see it are almost always disappointed by its diminutive size. In fact, I suspect Leonardo daVinci would be shocked to discover that it is his most famous painting. If even the Mona Lisa can’t live up to its own exaggerated reputation. Why should the rest of the art world be expected to. No sir. We don’t want to be compared to the Mona Lisa. Her smile is one of a kind. But we do deserve to hang in the art gallery.
User: HIGHschool4Rt 24h ago @foolishly-attuned-university-art-lover you call this art!!!!!!!!!!!!
User: foolishly-attuned-university-art-lover 16h
@HIGHschool4Rt Isn’t it beautiful?
User: HIGHschool4Rt 10h
@foolishly-attuned-university-art-lover ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm NO!
User: this_uni_student_still_got_brains 22h
How much did this cost?
User: foolishly-attuned-university-art-lover 20h
@this_uni_student_still_got_brains Can you ever really put a price on art?
User: this_uni_student_still_got_brains 19h
@foolishly-attuned-university-art-lover so it was free?
User: foolishly-attuned-university-art-lover 15h
@this_uni_student_still_got_brains no
User: this_uni_student_still_got_brains 14h
@foolishly-attuned-university-art-lover how much?
User: foolishly-attuned-university-art-lover 13h
@this_uni_student_still_got_brains $$$$$$$
User: this_uni_student_still_got_brains 12h
@foolishly-attuned-university-art-lover ?!! [vomit emoji]
User: foolishly-attuned-university-art-lover
@this_uni_student_still_got_brains hey it’s brilliant
User: this_uni_student_still_got_brains 9h
@foolishly-attuned-university-art-lover Oh it’s brilliant @LeeUfan has a genius business model. I want lessons.
User: foolishly-attuned-university-art-lover 9h
@this_uni_student_still_got_brains Artists have to live off something too you know
User: this_uni_student_still_got_brains 8h
@foolishly-attuned-university-art-lover Thought you couldn’t put a price on art.
User: sally-is-unimpressed 21h
I think anyone could have painted that. Probably even my 12yr old.
User: cry_me_a_river 20h
@sally-is-unimpressed It is pretty big… I think a 12 year old might struggle to match that kind of size.
User: Dialogue II 17h ago
@sally-is-unimpressed [laughing emoji]
User: sally-is-unimpressed 13h ago
@cry_me_a_river still of it’s only impressive because of its size then it doesn’t really have much going for it.
User: cry_me_a_river 13h ago
@sally-is-unimpressed true, true. But I find sometimes artworks are more impressive in person. So perhaps this one would have depth that we can’t see online. If nothing else it is fairly detailed in its photograph.
User: NGVcurator 10h ago
@sally-is-unimpressed If your 12yr old is painting artworks of this calibre we’d love to hear from him. He must be incredibly talented.
User: KarenCorrects 8h ago
Im so sick of silly i impressionist artwork being passed off as legitimate attestations**legitimate artworks
User: cry_me_a_river 8h ago
@KarenCorrects first of all, Dialogue II is not an impressionist artwork it would be classed as a modern artwork. I don’t think you actually know what impressionism is. I suggest you look it up. Second just because something is modern, doesn’t mean it’s not high art.
User: KarenCorrects 7h ago
@cry_me_a_river no need to be do snarky about it. Modern arts, impressionist at. Its all STUPID.
User: ARTisAWESOME 6h ago
@KarenCorrects That’s a little extreme. Someone just throwing paint at a wall, writing some fascicle deep description isn’t really artwork. But there’s a whole lot of modern art that has a lot of clever images and plays. You not liking something (and honestly not even knowing what it is) doesn’t mean it isn’t artwork.
User: KarenCorrects 6h ago
@ARTisAWESOME well someone must decide these things. Who not me. The judges seem to be dining a terrible job.
User: ARTisAWESOME 6h ago
Don’t worry @KarenCorrects. I’m sure there are plenty of Karen’s curating art and making those decisions.
User: KarenCorrects 5h ago
@ARTisAWESOME what s THAT supposed to mean!
User: foolishly-attuned-university-art-lover 4h ago
For some reason this artwork seems to be contentious. I don’t know why, but let me just clear some things up
Dialogue II is a giant paint stroke. It’s imperfections are what make it so perfect
Dialogue II was painted with a brush that was barely 5mm in width over many, many hours. It is not ‘simple’ or ‘easy’
The majority of the people in this chat world not be capable of anything close to the Dialogue II.
To all the haters out there. This is real art!
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Belinda Coleman is a Melbourne-based writer, who loves to inject a healthy teaspoon of sarcastic wit into her writing. Belinda is previously published in What we became, the 2023 PWE Anthology and has short stories published on the RMIT PWE website. Belinda has an Associate degree in Professional Writing and Editing and is currently working to get her Bachelor of Arts in Creative Writing. Her current work is inspired by Lee Ufan’s Dialogue II, found at the NGV gallery.