Richard Serra at MoMA - Torqued Ellipse IV (1998)

[solidysnake1]

this is pretentious nonsense! Don't you people realize that?

I always thought art is something that required great skill by artists who trained their whole life in a craft. I appreciate how a virtuoso violinist play a beautiful and complex peace of music.

How does a simple arc worth our attention?

[jackal59]

@solidysnake1 I have a well-calibrated pretentious bullshit detector as well. However, having seen and been in Serra's Torqued Spiral at the Pulitzer Foundation in St. Louis, I have to tell you that this isn't bullshit. You really can't judge a sculpture (an environment, really) like this by video; experienced in person, it is mysterious, disorienting, and nearly overwhelming. I had a gut response to it, not an intellectual one, and it was immensely satisfying.

[arezentes]

Richard Serra is a large rusty curved fake. He rotates in relation to his own misguided ego.

[dicostu]

Speak for yourself. Or inform your readers with a legitimate reason for a comment so banal as your own.

[fredjhenzel]

richard serra is a rock star.

[cukoloko]

gertrudis segmentando el subsuelo MOMA.

time ellapse - elipse true

serra - sierra

horizon-inside esculptures

[NatyS86]

It's really awesome and very difficult to achieve materializing a complete mental process! This is more than great!

[Maarttttt]

It's great, those churches in Rome too.

[manwithnoname123]

It's fascinating to hear Serra comment on the genesis of the Torqued Ellipse - how a building hundreds of years old old inspired a work of art centuries later. Serra is a monumental talent, a sculptor of great intelligence and depth, producing a body of work like no other artist. and the physicality of his immense steel pieces is really awe-inspiring. Yes, it's tiring to still hear people questioning the validity of "Modern art". Geeez, the Armory show was in 1913 for Christsakes!

[scumbauggio]

@manwithnoname123 Thank you.

[ReliableInsider]

Modernism is ANCIENT, Mr. Straw Man. Gimme somethin' new.

[pchcruzer]

Very cool art. even though our thinking on nature is at the moment XYZ architecture. Ellipse base vision would be a new paradime in thinking.

[SigmaSixxx]

It's so deligtfully Youtube that the only sensible comment here is "Does this need a rebuttal?"

To 'reliableinsider':

Representational art never went anywhere, FYI. It's still around, and nobody thinks any less of it (not even Serra). Fortunately, not everyone thinks *every* artist ought to be making it.

[ReliableInsider]

Looks kinda cool, though. Very male.

[ReliableInsider]

In its ridiculous (and completely hopeless) quest for "purity" (a anti-human idea if there ever was one), modern art stripped away what matters most: using representations of the human form to tell us about ourselves.

Bring back figurative (i.e. representational) art!

[mattmcgough]

"modern art kinda sucks" - does this need a rebuttal?

[genexstyle]

You can bmx in it... wallride?

[wildebeast]

yopu are a moron

[SigmaSixxx]

The same way that the only cure for ignorance in science is education, the only cure for ignorance in art is education. Just bear in mind before your next moronic knee-jerk reaction: 'modern' academic art is no more meant for the knee-jerk layman than a physics journal is: IE, you don't 'get' it *because you don't know anything about it*. That doesn't mean it 'sucks,' it just means you don't know what you're talking about.

[pchcruzer]

Ya JustinOaksford is a moron.