My name's Rodger Koller and this video is going to be very different
This is from a series of videos named "real-life English"
and today I'm going to talk about something really controversial
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as you know, I'm a teacher and I've got many students
and I teach them via Skype
and for some crazy reason, they keep asking me things related to politics
and about my opinion about Bolsonaro and Haddad
and all of that
in my last class that ended 20 minutes ago
my student asked me what I thought of the Rouanet Law
The Rouanet Law is a Brazilian law that was intended to encourage cultural investments
that can be used by firms and citizens
to help finance cultural projects
Anyway, it's a law to boost cultural events and art
I think it's important to invest in cultre and art
but my question is...What is art?
My concept of art is different from yours, I don't know
but maybe
Who determines and judges who this investment is going to?
What entitles this person to do that?
I'm going to tell you something that happened to me and then we can relate that to this law
Last week my girlfriend invited me to go to an art exhibit
that took place here near my city
in which they were displaying replicas of famous masterpieces
such as The Mona Lisa, by Leonardo Da Vinci
Guernica, by Picasso
The Creation of Adam by Michelangelo
The Last Supper, by Da Vinci
The Persistence of Memory, by Salvador Dali
among other outstanding masterpieces
and you could see that it took a lot of effort, hard work and talent to create each one of them
These guys were true artists
Alright, we stopped at every one of them
we analysed them, we were having long conversations about what the artist could be thinking
when he was painting it
what he was feeling at the moment
and what kind of message that painting was giving us
I had my interpretations and my girlfriend had hers
We had insane conversations because we saw things so differently
and we understood all of these paintings so differently
and it was a beautiful thing because it means that those paintings
were somehow alive, talking to us in so many peculiar and different ways
I love true art and that was a very good moment for us
Nevertheless, at that same art gallery there was a place dedicated to some abstract art
with photographs of modern paintings, abstract stuff and also of other art galleries with that sort of art
Some of them were really good and yes! I really like abstract, so that's not the problem.
But I've got to confess that some of the paintings made me laugh
and I'll tell you why
I understand why this painting by Peter Paul Rubens was sold for 104 million dollars
Ok! I can see the drama, I can see feelings, I can see the suffering
I can see art, but now look at this:
This was sold for 46 million dollars!!
Ok, I'll give you a second to breathe...46 million dollars!
Look, I'm not here to judge
what I'm doing here is just opening a window of opportunity
for us to debate
if you disagree with me, I please ask you to leave me a comment
telling me why you think differently
but I truly believe that my 5 year-old sister could do something better than this
and I don't even have a 5 year-old sister
I know some people will say:
But Rodger, you are just dumb
This is the essence of true art because
it represents that reality is beyond beauty and
and it undoubtedly within our fertile imagination
as an actual representation of our feelings translated into a painting. See?
Our feelings are illogical and they don't have a logical shape
They are abstract and afterwards
we translate these emotions into our logical thoughts and turn them into words
These paintings represent our feelings, emotions
before they turned into logical words
You're just too dumb to understand that
Yeah, maybe I'm too dumb to understand that this is art:
and this is just the result of someone testing a paintbrush:
This is art:
And these are just boxes attatched to the wall:
and yet, someone will say:
NO NO NO!!!
Just because you can't personally differentiate between a line of abstract thought translated onto a canvas
it does not make you the judge of what art is or isn't
Just because it doesn't represent a reality you understand
doesn't make it not art
Yeah, I totally agree with you, I'm not an expert
and I'm not saying that I'm right
I might be wrong but it seems that nowadays people are afraid to just admit that they also agree with me
that that sort of thing is not art
because it's cult and fancy to say that we love that
and then we pretend that we like it and
and that we understand what it means
because we don't want to be different from the group
and we want to be fancy
we don't want to sound stupid...Just like this:
The carpets! If you look very closely...Do you see?
Can you see?
It's made of
Thousands and thousands of African babies...
Oh it's like, he is literally walking on African babies!!! (yes)
So he is like the West and the African babies are like...Africa!
That's a very good interpretation!
Oh! Now I see!
It seems that if we see this:
and if we say "Oh! This is ridiculous!"
People will look at us and say:
You're just too dumb to understand it!
and I AM INTELLIGENT because I undestand it!
and then if we ask them "But do you understand it?"
They'll say something like
Yes! This is the representation of a mother
who instinctively saved her soul by feeding her babies
with love and comprehension.
You have no soul and you are brainless and that's why you don't get it!
Ok, I might be dumb because
All I can imagine is that a toddler was given a color pen and paper and he had fun for 5 minutes
Do you remember the story of the emperor and his new clothes?
Hundreds of years ago there was a tailor
He went to the emperor and he said
that he had very rare clothes to sell
The emperor who loved buying rare things asked him
Why are these clothes so rare?
and the tailor replied:
Because only intelligent people can see them
incompetent, lazy and stupid people can't see them
Look! What do you think of them?
The emperor couldn't see anything
but he was ashamed to admit that
Otherwise would think he was stupid
so he said that he loved those clothes and he bought them for millions and millions
He then wore these clothes
and nobody in the kingdom could see them
They could only see the naked emperor
But nobody said anything because
They didn't want people to see they were dumb
The moral of the story is:
The tailor got rich
Ok, just kidding, that's not the moral of the story
I think it's important to invest in culture and art
But my question is...
What is art?
My concept of art is different
from yours, I don't know
but maybe
Who determines and judges who this investment is going to?
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