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[[Barack Obama|Present day.]] [[Fist of the North Star|Present time.]] [[Serial Experiments Lain|'''aHa'''Ha'''Ha'''Ha'''Ha''']] True Art is not this. [[The Treachery of Images|This is not art.]]
[[Barack Obama|Present day.]] [[Fist of the North Star|Present time.]] [[Serial Experiments Lain|'''aHa'''Ha'''Ha'''Ha'''Ha''']] True Art is not this. [[The Treachery of Images|This is not art.]]

There is an attitude shown in some works that some art doesn't make a lot of sense and should be mocked as pretentious and elitist. It is spoken of ironically as 'True Art,' implying that it is neither true nor art.


This <font color="ff0000"><strike>minotaur</strike></font> <font color="0000ff">trope</font> is [[House of Leaves|not for you.]]
This <font color="ff0000"><strike>minotaur</strike></font> <font color="0000ff">trope</font> is [[House of Leaves|not for you.]]
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<u>Today is a good day to die.</u><ref>Chocolate Chip Cookie Ingredients - 3/4 cup sugar; 3/4 cup packed brown sugar; 1 cup butter, softened; 2 large eggs, beaten; 1 teaspoon vanilla extract; 2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour; 1 teaspoon baking soda; 3/4 teaspoon salt; 2 cups semisweet chocolate chips; if desired, 1 cup chopped pecans, or chopped walnuts</ref>
<u>Today is a good day to die.</u><ref>Chocolate Chip Cookie Ingredients - 3/4 cup sugar; 3/4 cup packed brown sugar; 1 cup butter, softened; 2 large eggs, beaten; 1 teaspoon vanilla extract; 2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour; 1 teaspoon baking soda; 3/4 teaspoon salt; 2 cups semisweet chocolate chips; if desired, 1 cup chopped pecans, or chopped walnuts</ref>


Naturally, the characters doing the mocking are portrayed as Philistines by the artistic characters... if the artistic characters are allowed to say anything at all, that is. Philistines are not notably fair about such things.
[[File:WithastickandIhopeyouallburn.gif|Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|frameless|left]] True a<font color=green>rt is a tuna. True art i</font><font color=purple>s a tuba. True art slept wi</font>th your sister and is having her babies.


[[File:WithastickandIhopeyouallburn.gif|Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|frameless|left]] True a<font color=green>rt is a tuna. True art i</font><font color=purple>s a tuba. True art slept wi</font>th your sister and is having her babies.<br/>
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True Art can't be not possibly different from anything that is not the opposite of any of these things:
True Art can't be not possibly different from anything that is not the opposite of any of these things:


* [[True Art is Ancient]]
* [[True Art Is Ancient]]
* [[True Art is Angsty]]
* [[True Art Is Angsty]]
* [[Magnificent Bastard|One Potato]]
* [[Magnificent Bastard|One Potato]]
* [[True Art is Foreign]]
* [[True Art Is Foreign]]
* [[True Art is Incomprehensible]]
* [[True Art Is Incomprehensible]]
* [[The DCU|Two Potato]]
* [[The DCU|Two Potato]]
* [[True Art is Offensive]]
* [[True Art Is Offensive]]
* [[True Art Sticks It to the Man]]
* [[True Art Sticks It to the Man]]
* [[End of the World Special|Three Potato]]
* [[End of the World Special|Three Potato]]
** [[Tear Jerker|Potato suicide]]
** [[Tear Jerker|Potato suicide]]


[[Covers Always Lie|I am your subconscious.]] [[Johnny the Homicidal Maniac|Feathers]] [[Donkey Kong 64|are arrows.]]
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There is an attitude shown in some works that some art doesn't make a lot of sense and should be mocked as pretentious and elitist. It is spoken of ironically as 'True Art,' implying that it is neither true nor art.


True Art is not this. [[The Treachery of Images|This is not art.]]
Naturally, the characters doing the mocking are portrayed as Philistines by the artistic characters...if the artistic characters are allowed to say anything at all, that is. Philistines are not notably fair about such things.


[[Captain Obvious|In case you haven't figured it out yet]], True Art [[Mind Screw|doesn't make a lot of sense]]. Strictly speaking, it's a quality of fiction which, in the minds of critics and artists, allows an otherwise normal work to transcend itself and become a statement on the human condition. This nebulous quality has never been hammered down by anyone, except perhaps to [[Its Popular So It Sucks|sneeringly look down on popular works]] [[Complaining About Shows You Don't Like|they don't like]] [[No True Scotsman|as not being "true art."]] The quest to attain this status, however, has produced some distinctive tropes of its own.
Some categories of things which may be too subtle for these Philistines:


This page most is Isao strange with this wiki. That he being tic doctor, it can do to be art at six most important surface places. [[True Art Is Angsty]], [[True Art Is Incomprehensible]], [[True Art Is Foreign]], [[True Art Is Ancient]], [[True Art Is Offensive]], and [[True Art Sticks It to the Man]] have. Je veux dire, vraiment. Ii1 как представление может начать быть хорошо? That time of I stupefaction me. You call this page to being the human;


[[File:ART.jpg|frameless|left|No es rakoon, es castor$%^!]]
* [[True Art Is Ancient]]
under conditions unlimited. Meaning, as for depth, there is bottomless. Therefore the he performance well to not having brio that, the useless person, Icanhascheezburger? this is.
* [[True Art Is Angsty]]
* [[True Art Is Incomprehensible]]


[[Talkative Loon|As sleepwalk under the table with the popsicle and to fish rod for the sun is stupid, I think you should try giving me my ugly dad back so that I can trade him with a free stroke]]. [[Omnicidal Maniac|The whole world will exterminated by pepper-pot polar bear train]].

[[Discworld|Buggrit. Millennium hand and shrimp]].

'''<font color=green>True Art Is</font> <font color="ff0000">Green</font><font color=green>.</font>'''

{{spoiler|There is no spoiler here.}}

Have you ever phoned a police box? You shouldn't. Police boxes might not actually have an operational phone, and it's annoying when it rings all the time. Who needs phones, anyway?

Skip this sentence.

Read the last sentence.

The walls of Jericho came TUMBLING DOWN. TUMBLINGGGGGGGGGGGG DOWNFORWARDS SPLATTERSPLAT UPON THE WEEEEEEEEMING WEEEEEEEMING. This bubblegum is not a machete, unless. Truthfully, no, this machete is not a bubblegum.

9 messages in your inbox. They are not loaded. TRISTAN TIZARA LIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIVES!

The <font color=red>Hell</font>? No, The <font color=blue>Heaven</font>? THEY'RE <font color=purple>COMING</font>. The <font color=blue>squirrels</font>.

La trahison des images? Ceci n'est pas <font color=yellow>l'art</font>.

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See also [[Its Popular So It Sucks]] (aka [[True Art Is Not Popular]]); [[Public Medium Ignorance]]; [[No True Scotsman]]; and [[Unacceptable Targets]].
See also [[Its Popular So It Sucks]] (aka [[True Art Is Not Popular]]); [[Public Medium Ignorance]]; [[No True Scotsman]]; and [[Unacceptable Targets]].

Revision as of 02:25, 10 May 2014

"μῆνιν ἄειδε θεὰ Πηληϊάδεω Ἀχιλῆος

οὐλομένην, ἣ μυρί' Ἀχαιοῖς ἄλγε' ἔθηκεν"
"Beeeerrrrrr...."

Homer, The Simpsons
"Keepin' it thorough. :)"
"Padatyu gibisïn ego."

Somebody.

Here's the short version.

Plagiarism.

Present day. Present time. aHaHaHaHaHa True Art is not this. This is not art.

There is an attitude shown in some works that some art doesn't make a lot of sense and should be mocked as pretentious and elitist. It is spoken of ironically as 'True Art,' implying that it is neither true nor art.

This minotaur trope is not for you.

Today is a good day to die.[1]

Naturally, the characters doing the mocking are portrayed as Philistines by the artistic characters... if the artistic characters are allowed to say anything at all, that is. Philistines are not notably fair about such things.

Crowning Moment of Heartwarming
Crowning Moment of Heartwarming

True art is a tuna. True art is a tuba. True art slept with your sister and is having her babies.



True Art can't be not possibly different from anything that is not the opposite of any of these things:

I am your subconscious. Feathers are arrows.

True Art is not this. This is not art.

In case you haven't figured it out yet, True Art doesn't make a lot of sense. Strictly speaking, it's a quality of fiction which, in the minds of critics and artists, allows an otherwise normal work to transcend itself and become a statement on the human condition. This nebulous quality has never been hammered down by anyone, except perhaps to sneeringly look down on popular works they don't like as not being "true art." The quest to attain this status, however, has produced some distinctive tropes of its own.

This page most is Isao strange with this wiki. That he being tic doctor, it can do to be art at six most important surface places. True Art Is Angsty, True Art Is Incomprehensible, True Art Is Foreign, True Art Is Ancient, True Art Is Offensive, and True Art Sticks It to the Man have. Je veux dire, vraiment. Ii1 как представление может начать быть хорошо? That time of I stupefaction me. You call this page to being the human;

No es rakoon, es castor$%^!
No es rakoon, es castor$%^!

under conditions unlimited. Meaning, as for depth, there is bottomless. Therefore the he performance well to not having brio that, the useless person, Icanhascheezburger? this is.

As sleepwalk under the table with the popsicle and to fish rod for the sun is stupid, I think you should try giving me my ugly dad back so that I can trade him with a free stroke. The whole world will exterminated by pepper-pot polar bear train.

Buggrit. Millennium hand and shrimp.

True Art Is Green.

There is no spoiler here.

Have you ever phoned a police box? You shouldn't. Police boxes might not actually have an operational phone, and it's annoying when it rings all the time. Who needs phones, anyway?

Skip this sentence.

Read the last sentence.

The walls of Jericho came TUMBLING DOWN. TUMBLINGGGGGGGGGGGG DOWNFORWARDS SPLATTERSPLAT UPON THE WEEEEEEEEMING WEEEEEEEMING. This bubblegum is not a machete, unless. Truthfully, no, this machete is not a bubblegum.

9 messages in your inbox. They are not loaded. TRISTAN TIZARA LIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIVES!

The Hell? No, The Heaven? THEY'RE COMING. The squirrels.

La trahison des images? Ceci n'est pas l'art.


See also Its Popular So It Sucks (aka True Art Is Not Popular); Public Medium Ignorance; No True Scotsman; and Unacceptable Targets.

  1. Chocolate Chip Cookie Ingredients - 3/4 cup sugar; 3/4 cup packed brown sugar; 1 cup butter, softened; 2 large eggs, beaten; 1 teaspoon vanilla extract; 2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour; 1 teaspoon baking soda; 3/4 teaspoon salt; 2 cups semisweet chocolate chips; if desired, 1 cup chopped pecans, or chopped walnuts