I was investiGoogling and stumbled onto this site…
http://www.michaelashkin.com/model.php?p=1.1.3.1
Click on the thumbnails across the top. There’s one near the end that looks like it was taken on someone’s layout, complete with Pikestuff building.
I have no idea what this guy’s art sells for, but it’s probably a heckuva lot more than anyone here could get for a diorama.
Steve S
All I can say is that art, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder. If you call it art or trendy you could probably sell a piece of gold plated doggie doo-doo on a chain and someone would wear it around their neck !!!
Slightly [#offtopic]
Several decades ago, during my brief sojurn to California, I encountered a ‘thing’ on a street corner in an industrial area - a conglomeration of bent steel girders painted, IIRC, oxide red.
When I inquired, I was told it was a modern freeform sculpture - required by some local ordinance that mandated something of artistic value among the plain building block shapes of the local buildings.
‘Art’ is in the eye of the beholder. So is scrap metal.
In the same vein, what happened to the cockamamie scheme to hang a big (1:1 scale) model of a Santa Fe 4-8-4 nose down over a New York City intersection?
Chuck (Modeling Central Japan in September, 1964 - with very little artistic merit)
At least it didn’t take up an entire city block like this monstrosity…
Steve S
Steve S,
Now this is Art???
How would You like this sculpture in Your front yard.
Downtown Chicago, city hall:
http://www.chicagodetours.com/tag/picasso/
Take Care! [:D]
Frank
or this one:
I think that you might want to research Michael Ashkin a bit before ridiculing his art work on this forum.
All is not what it appears to be.
Rich
I wonder will MR publish one of his submissions?
Jaime
OK, let’s start with Wiki:
[quote]
Michael Ashkin is an American artist who makes sculptures, videos, photographs and installations depicting marginalized, desolate landscapes.[1] He is best known for his use of miniature scale and modest materials.[2]
Ashkin also authored Garden State, a book which compares the New Jersey Meadowlands to a formal garden. [3] He is a contributing author to (Untitled) Experience of Place. [4]
Ashkin was born in Morristown, New Jersey, and received an M.A. in Middle East Languages and Cultures from Columbia University. Before becoming an artist, he taught Arabic and worked as a computer programmer for investment banks. [5] As
Shame on you guys.
Steven Otte should lock this thread.
Just another example of bashing people who aren’t here to defend themselves.
Rich
Trust me, artists don’t care, or I should say only care about people talking about them, they love it, good , bad or ____. Having gone to a top art school thats teachers had to be a practicing artist to teach there, I can tell you that for a fact. So if you want to do the artist a favor, make bold headlines when you denounce him, very bold!!!
When it includes a train.
Since it doesn’t, I’ll give you guys a little while to find some way to make this thread on-topic, else it goes bye-bye.
“ART, is whatever you can get away with…” Marshall McLuhan
The Medusa’s Head, model trains wrapped around an asteroid
Artist: Chris Burden (be more impressive if all the trains worked (Magnatraction Chris Magnatraction)
I myself have always considered model railroading a kinetic art form. [:D]
[:)]
I’m not certain that including a train is really a criteria. Did not MR publish a photo or article about something called “NOtrack”?[:)]
Hate to ruin it for you, but that was an April Fool’s joke.
Who snuck that Malcolm Furlow layout on here?
Actually, I’ve seen almost that much track on an N scale layout (3 levels, and it worked!) on a tea tray. It was a Tetsudo Mokei Shumi cover story several years ago. Not only was it a runnable track plan (albiet with very short trains) but it included structures that were severely compressed but recognizable representations of Tokyo landmarks.
In my biased opinion, THAT was art!
Chuck (Modeling Central Japan in September, 1964)
Not so much ridiculing it as pointing out that a quality photo diorama might sell for $50, but put the tag “art” on it and you could add a zero or two onto the price.
Steve S
Many outside the model railroad community believe that Rod Stewart’s obsession with “toy trains” is the result of years of drug use.
So who are we to judge the tastes of others?
If you didn’t know it was a Renoir painting, I wonder how much you might pay for it if you saw it in a flea market?
Rich
Or if you didn’t know it might be a $100 million Leonardo, you might sell a portrait for $22,000 at your gallery.
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2012/02/lost-da-vinci/o-neill-text
Steve S