is the title of a painting important to you?

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when you look at paintings or art in general do you first reach out to the information cards with the title?

is it important to you?

― dakatine, Friday, 1 November 2002 09:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh yes. I read the cards first. Preferably if they have some nice art criticism to tell me what to think, as well.

I follow the Painted Word theory about 20th (and I suppose now 21st) Century art. In the future, when they do retrospectives, the title and criticism cards will be blown up big on the wall, and there will be little tiny reproductions of the paintings next to them.

― kate, Friday, 1 November 2002 09:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Not important at all really. Same with song titles.

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 1 November 2002 10:05 (twenty-two years ago)

sometimes it is. sometimes it isn't.

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 1 November 2002 10:15 (twenty-two years ago)

in art school I put up cards with fictional artworks just randomly around a room with no real works attached to it

the whole big cards/smallpainitngs thing sounds dated, has it not been done already?

― dakatine, Friday, 1 November 2002 10:20 (twenty-two years ago)

YEs - name of art is part of the art (as much as the choice of leaving it nameless or even better stipulating no card).

― Pete (Pete), Friday, 1 November 2002 10:42 (twenty-two years ago)

and then you have paintings that say No Title but have a title written it between brackets:

No title (I hate summer etc. part 1)

― dakatine, Friday, 1 November 2002 11:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Despite agreeing with the post-modernist "any reading is valid" type of thing, I still like to know what the artist's intention was. Titles are sometimes helpful in this regard.

Also, I'm likely to look at something and see things that aren't meant to be there - so knowing what it is actually meant to be a painting of can assist me in deciphering the patterns and shapes.

― toraneko (toraneko), Friday, 1 November 2002 12:52 (twenty-two years ago)

yes, i think i like to know the title, its part of it (and the decision not to title is a statement in itself isn't it? which recognises the importance of titles)

― gareth (gareth), Friday, 1 November 2002 12:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Very important, really. Same with song titles.

― Ally C (Ally C), Friday, 1 November 2002 13:25 (twenty-two years ago)

only when it's a catalogue nr. ;-)

― nathalie (nathalie), Friday, 1 November 2002 14:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Song/Painting titles may or may not be important depending on whether or not they are/were important to the artist. For me, I like to think that every single part of - at least an album - is part of an artistic statement: the music itself, the titles, the cover art, the fliers, promo shots... It just depends on the intention of the artist. If something is left untitled, then the artist obviously didn't intend for that to be the focus...

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 1 November 2002 14:47 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't often look at them, and rarely find them of interest or value. Sometimes they annoy me - I expect some of this at the Barnett Newman show I'm going to tomorrow. That might be my problem.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 1 November 2002 23:46 (twenty-two years ago)

there are no RULES (except this one)

― Kim (Kim), Saturday, 2 November 2002 04:31 (twenty-two years ago)

i would rather reach out to a card that tells me something about the artist, than the title of the work.
sometimes i have found the art to be almost spoiled for me by the title ie: i looked at my monet calendar this morning and noted the title of this months painting is 'Les Trios Arbres, Automne'. it made me think " oh ". as in, "oh :-( "

― donna (donna), Saturday, 2 November 2002 04:44 (twenty-two years ago)

what did you expect from monet?

― dakatine, Saturday, 2 November 2002 15:35 (twenty-two years ago)

I like to guess who donated it to the museum first, and then check to see that I'm right.

― A Nairn (moretap), Saturday, 2 November 2002 16:12 (twenty-two years ago)

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