{"id":1773,"date":"2012-04-14T04:56:17","date_gmt":"2012-04-13T23:26:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/?p=1773"},"modified":"2012-04-14T04:56:17","modified_gmt":"2012-04-13T23:26:17","slug":"how-does-painting-trees-blue-raise-awareness-about-their-importance-to-our-survival-plus-rants-on-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/how-does-painting-trees-blue-raise-awareness-about-their-importance-to-our-survival-plus-rants-on-art\/","title":{"rendered":"How does painting trees blue raise awareness about their importance to our survival? Plus rants on &#8216;art&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seriously, can someone please explain this to me? This guy went and painted a bunch of tree&#8217;s blue and that is supposed to raise awareness about the importance of tree&#8217;s. I would be more concerned about the harm this paint might cause the trees. (Paint blocks the pores so could effect the ability of the tree&#8217;s to convert co2). I would understand if he went out and planted a lot of trees or did something that educated people about them. I really doubt that I will ever understand these so called &#8216;artists&#8217;, A lot of the &#8216;modern&#8217; art looks to me like a mad monkey was dropped in paint and crawled across the canvas in its death throes. Or maybe its because someone supposed to be a big art critic said that the above is art and everyone else is just jumping on the bandwagon so that they don&#8217;t seem as if they don&#8217;t know art (kind of sounds like the emperor&#8217;s new clothes if you ask me). <\/p>\n<p>Drawing a box bisected by a line with different colors on both sides or <a href='http:\/\/www.huckmagazine.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/british-art-now.jpg'>putting a rock on a fence<\/a> does not make it art or you an artist. Making something that takes actual effort and skill (like <a href='http:\/\/www.skitzone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/great-body-art.jpg'>this<\/a> or <a href='http:\/\/www.skitzone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/great-body-art.jpg'>this<\/a>) is art. <\/p>\n<p>Now a lot of folks say that it requires a lot of thought to create a painting and I agree with it, I just don&#8217;t classify my examples above as paintings. A while ago I visited a art exhibition with a friend and one of the paintings over there was a canvas painted yellow with a black line cutting across it diagonally about a third of the way from the corner. Another painting was a blank canvas with a red (or was it blue) dot in the middle of it (that&#8217;s it). Now please tell me what makes it so impressive that someone painted a dot on the canvas? <\/p>\n<p>Source of the image prompted this rant (Although I have been meaning to post about this):  <a href='http:\/\/uberhumor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/daily-morning-awesomeness-32.jpg'>Urber Humor: Daily Morning Awesomeness 32<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Any thoughts\/Comments?<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Suramya<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seriously, can someone please explain this to me? This guy went and painted a bunch of tree&#8217;s blue and that is supposed to raise awareness about the importance of tree&#8217;s. I would be more concerned about the harm this paint might cause the trees. (Paint blocks the pores so could effect the ability of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1773"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1774,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1773\/revisions\/1774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}