IFGS Sculptures from the indoor gallery.
More photos at the link above.

5 sculptures were forged by Uly Schmidy using a 200 ton hydraulic press.

The sculptor is unknown in the second group. Diameter is 12-13" and 1/2" thick. Forged with a 75 ton hydraulic press

I guess thats why I could never be an artist ( I dont get it )

This gives me an idea....take my mistakes back out of the scrap....weld them together...call it a sculpture.
I don't get it either. I guess i'm just not the artist type.

turning a mistake into "Art" seems easy, try it. I would suppose this was a concept born onto a clean slate, a concept thought out and executed, not a mistake. That is my read at least

Those sculptures probably look exactly the way the artist intended them to look. You may not "understand" it, but you can still appreciate the skill that it took to create it.

I liked the look of some of the other sculptures from the same show a little more then these ones. Looks like Hofi put up quite a few in the gallery. Thanks!

I really meant that as a joke, not a criticism. I still don't get a lot of it but if other people appreciate it then thats OK by me.

I've been hammering away on the wrong kinds of projects all this time :o

I like it and I get it.

Pam

"The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?"

Pablo Picasso said that.

I like it and I get it.

Pam

I am with Pam. I think part of the beauty is that it was IMMENSE amopunts of power used to make them, they are LARGE diameter peices, done hot, that's pretty cool. To show the form and force involved in workin gmetal, and just how shapely it gets.

Art is human influence. It comes from the world behind the eyes.

The working definition of "art" for me, is something that conveys emotion.

I personally think that Merriam-Webster puts it well: the conscious use of skill and creative imagination especially in the production of aesthetic objects.

My definition of art is: Transcendent craft.

My definition of "good" art is: Do you like it?

But what do I know?

Frosty

Works for me
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Some "art" is questionable to me. An artist with name recognition could sell a clinker from a fire and make good money from it. Some would see this as a ludicrous example or art while there will always be other who "get it" and appreciated it. I must be of simple mind or simply not refined for I hardly ever "get it" ;)

Very right, Simmon. "Art" is one of the most relative words that man has ever created, next to happiness and freedom (etc.). If one person considers something art, then it is art. I'm not sure of anything ever created that one could not make a good argument about its validity as art, except maybe politics (just kidding, you could make that argument as well, but why would you want to?).

One of my 'rules' for art - besides whether I like it or not is the note at the side of the picture/sculpture.
If it is a post card sized lable with the artists name on it and the title of the piece and you can read the title then look at the work and say yes that is what the artist is trying to show, then to me that is art.
On the other hand if at side of the work is several A4 sized sheets of 'Bull' then that to me is not art, just the artist trying to justify a load of rubbish - a pictoral image of a politicians speach !!!!!!!

Wayne,

I agree. I think a title that causes you to say "Oh yeah." means the artist understands what he made, and is more than just something put together with no thought.

Art to me is something that evokes an emotion. I took my 14 year old nieces to one of the local art and craft galleries. One didn't want to "waste her time away from friends" and the other thought "art wasn't something she could ever do". As they walked into the gallery however, you could see their eyes light up and an entirely new world open up for them! It was also eye opening for me, the things that most interested them, and the reasons they liked specific things verses other things. Thankfully we went in hour before close, otherwise we might still be there.

Art can be playing with all of your scraps and welding them together, if you do it in such a way that at the end evokes an emotion and meaning from you....
besides "what a pile of junk".

Pam

when it took welding in high skool we had a kid that was in the class because his buddy was taking it. And all he would do during the shop time was tack scrap in the shape of an animal stick figure and call it art.

The beauty of art is that it is all in the eye of the beholder. Good artists can convey the emotion. Unfortunately, like any "high class society" thing, art has become a thing of big names and marketing. Lots of the best art is in universities and the likes because there are some people that don't have a name but are trying.