Art And Me: Tuesday Night Edition

[exhilaration]

ithildyn took one of these, and so, being that it was about art, I had to take a bunch!

Your result for What Your Taste in Art Says About You Test...

Non-conformist, Visionary, and Independent

Abstract art uses a visual language of form, color and line to create a composition which exists independently of what may appear to others as visual realities. Western had been underpinned by the logic of perspective and an attempt to reproduce an illusion of visible reality. It allowed the progressive thinking artists to show a different side to the world around them. By the end of the 19th century many artists felt a need to create a 'new kind of art' which would encompass the fundamental changes taking place in technology, science and philosophy. Abstract artists created art that was diverse and reflected the social and intellectual turmoil in all areas of Western culture.

People that chose abstract art as their preferred artform tend to be visionsaries. They see things in the world around them and in people that others may miss because they look beyond what is visual only with the eye. They rely on their inner thoughts and feelings in dealing with the world around them instead of on what they are told they should think and feel. They feel freed from the tendancy to be bound by traditional thought and experiences. They look more toward their own ideas and experiences than what they are told by their religious upbringing or from scientific evidence. They tend to like to prove theories themselves instead of relying on the insight or ideas of others. They are not bound by common and mundane, but like to travel and have new experiences. They value intelligence, but they also enjoy a challenge. They can be rather argumentative when they are being forced or feel as if they are being forced to conform.

Take What Your Taste in Art Says About You Test at HelloQuizzy

Hmmmm. Would be nice, wouldn't it, to be a visionary... I am very attracted to abstract art. I dunno how true the rest of this is, though.

Your result for The Famous Artwork Test...

The Blank Canvas

The world is your easel, go crazy! You are "The Blank Canvas". This means that you were able to correctly answer at least 15 questions...you really know your art. I thought I could have thrown you for a loop with those art museums, but you persevered.

I recommend you go buy some art supplies and paint yourself. Just for laughs. Hell, it'd probably make a fantastic party game when everyone is completely tanked out of their minds. Then, afterwards, you can try and sell it to museums for mounds of cash! Hey, it worked for Picasso.**

Congratulations!

I have included an answer key below should you want to review the test. I also welcome any and all feedback (as long as it's good) and please, don't forget to vote!

**Statement not backed up by any remotely credible sources.

*****The test creator is not responsible for any injuries you might sustain from actually getting drunk and painting yourself. He wasn't serious. Well, he might've been.*****

Answers: 1-D, 2-C, 3-B, 4-B, 5-A, 6-C, 7-B, 8-A, 9-D, 10-A, 11-C, 12-A, 13-E, 14-D, 15-B, 16-D, 17-E, 18-B, 19-C, 20-A

Take The Famous Artwork Test at HelloQuizzy

Yes, I can and do recognize most famous artwork. What of it? It's in my blood or something... or, if not directly in my blood, it's in my lungs - I've been breathing it in, and it's gone to my brain :P

Your result for With which under appreciated artist (or otherwise) is your personality most paralleled?...

Hieronymus Bosch

Hieronymus Bosch, (Jeroen van Aken) (1450 – August 9, 1516) was an Early Netherlandish painter of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Many of his works depict sin and human moral failings. Bosch used images of demons, half-human animals and machines to evoke fear and confusion to portray the evil of man. The works contain complex, highly original, imaginative, and dense use of symbolic figures and iconography, some of which was obscure even in his own time. He is said to have been an inspiration for the surrealist movement in the twentieth century.

Take With which under appreciated artist (or otherwise) is your personality most paralleled? at HelloQuizzy

Ok, I'll take that. I dig Bosch...

Your result for The Famous (and Not So Famous) Art Quiz...

Art History Major

Art History Major: You scored 91% Artiste!

You've studied art for years, and therefore you recognized almost if not all the works represented here. Way to go!

Take The Famous (and Not So Famous) Art Quiz at HelloQuizzy

Ok, ok, you caught me... well, halfway, anyway. I was an art history major at one point. Got no degree to prove it, though.

I love leaving. Leaving is my favorite thing to do. Whenever something knocks me down... I leave. I have a long standing history of doing this. It's such a rush. It started when I left my parents' house to go to college, and I never stopped. It doesn't matter how much I do or don't love somewhere - once I get the idea that it's time to leave, I LEAVE, and I LOVE it.

A therapist would call this "running away," and this is why I don't like therapy. They take what you say and find the closest categorical response available, and just use that. I'm not running away - what am I running away from? There's nothing here. I don't have a problem settling down - why would I settle down here, I don't like it here! I don't have a problem forming attachments - I form too many attachments! Erica, for one - yeah, I'm pretty attached to her, alright. Erica is like... my sanity, my sounding board, and my constant chatter - she's like my TELEVISION. Always got something on. And Bevan - I am very, very attached to him. If I left here and never saw him again, I would be sad. That would be a very sad thing.

And it's not just the two of them - my manager, Vicky, who calls us all her kids. All my coworkers who've helped me out in a pinch and always invite me out - John, Heather, Lindsay, etc, even Sima, my ex-tenant. I'm kinda attached to all these people.

But I just don't see that as a reason to stay here.

I saw my cousin Ryan yesterday, and I think that's what has really set me off. Ryan grew up here - Ryan never wanted anything more than to leave here, and he did, and he comes home now and then, but he always takes off again. He works at ski resorts and stuff - he was a surfer, but he switched from waves to mountains because he wanted change. Ryan does it all the time, leaves and goes somewhere else, because it's just time. No one says he's running away from anything, no one says he has attachment problems, issues, disorders - they say he's a "free spirit" or sometimes that he musta been a flower child or something.

He wasn't - but close to. My other two cousins, the ones who are older than me and Ryan, lived in a tent with my Aunt Jen and Uncle Ber until my oldest cousin was seven. Yes really.

Ryan and I look alike. A lot alike. It's almost eerie. I mean, the older we get and the more into our own lives we get, yeah, we do look a little different. But the basics stay the same. If I said I had a twin brother, and introduced him, no one would ever question it. So what's so different from him to me? Why am I always viewed as "running away" and he's "running free?"

I'd discuss this with Ryan himself, but, see, he's already off to find himself another mountain.

Comments

[ellisbell1848.livejournal.com]

There's an Angelina Jolie quote that goes something along the lines of, 'no matter where I am I always find myself looking out the window wishing I was somewhere else.'
That's pretty much me. Since graduating Uni in 2004 I've constantly been on the move, and lived in 6 different towns in 4 years. None of it was running away, it was just time for me to live somewhere else. I have nomadic tendencies, and I love it. I couldn't live any other way.