[aldo_14]

Putting modern art in its rightful place

[Petrarch of the VBB]

Owned

[Rictor]

I can't stand "modern art". Someone ought to train a secret brigade of these cleaner types to roam the world and do away with modern art.

The bag filled with discarded paper and cardboard was part of a work by Gustav Metzger, said to demonstrate the "finite existence" of art.

[Taristin]

What really irks me is this line:

The 78-year-old artist replaced it with a new bag. The gallery would not reveal whether he would be compensated.

Since when do we pay geriatrics to give us their garbage?

[Martinus]

[color=66ff00]I see utter miracles every day; events, scenarios or objects that to most people are mundane, but if you give a little thought as to what's happening they can be the cause of some revelation or insight and isn't that what art is all about?

'Modern' art as it is called is simply a way of illustrating how important or interesting things that people overlook on a daily basis is.
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[Tiara]

Originally posted by Maeglamor
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'Modern' art as it is called is simply a way of illustrating how important or interesting things that people overlook on a daily basis is.
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I can see how people can have... 'different' tastes. But a f*cking bag of GARBGE!?

Come on... There's a limit to everything, and the limit of 'art' has lies on the other side of the universe of a bag of garbage .

[Liberator]

I hate "modern art" as well, it's one of only a few fields where you can legally swindle people out of thousands of dollars by claiming a bag of dog crap is actually a piece proclaiming "x" about life.

[Martinus]

[color=66ff00]Oh the money side of it is obscene but lets face it, only a muppet pays for something like that. Most of those works can be easily cloned at very little cost.
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[Flipside]

It's allegedly to expose the 'finite existence' of art, which just goes to show that :-

a) Modern Artists see Art's 'lifetime' as 'as long as it's profitable'
b) The artist secretly considers his own work to be mostly rubbish.

Personally, I think it's just another example of humanity running out of ideas

[Tiara]

Originally posted by Maeglamor
[color=66ff00]Oh the money side of it is obscene but lets face it, only a muppet pays for something like that. Most of those works can be easily cloned at very little cost.
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Yeah, I throw clones into the garbage container daily...

Say, how much money would I get for a garbage container?

[Martinus]

[color=66ff00]Tate will probably give you a cool half mil for it if you get someone to say that you're some mighty Dutch art guru.
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[Blaise Russel]

"We don't understand this! Let's burn it!"



Way to go, enlightened peoples of Earth.

[Flipside]

Not exactly Blaise, more like...

'Oooh look, theres a rubbish bag, and I'm a cleaner, let's do my job'

[Blaise Russel]

Really?

I was talking about the

"WHAT THE HELL IS THAT?"

"That? Oh, that's a new piece we've just acquired, it's called-"

"I DON'T CARE WHAT IT'S CALLED. IT'S DUMB AND DOESN'T BELONG HERE. IT'S NOT ART, SEE."

"Um... well, it's supposed to represent the vast gulf between Man and-"

"WHAT? NO IT DOESN'T. I CAN'T SEE ANY SUCH MEANING, SO IT'S OBVIOUSLY BULL****. IT'S JUST A STUPID PIECE OF PAPER WITH BLOBS ON IT."

"Those 'blobs', as you call them, are exquisitely-painted depictions of the 'great thinkers' of the Renaissance period-"

"RENEY-WHAT? IT'S BLOBS. MEANINGLESS BLOBS IN A MEANINGLESS PIECE. I BET IT WAS MADE ONLY BECAUSE THE ARTIST COULDN'T THINK OF SOMETHING THAT HAD IDEAS AND STUFF BEHIND IT, OR COULDN'T BE ARSED ACTUALLY CRAFTING A PROPER WORK. THAT DOG**** PIECE YOU HAD LAST WEEK, THAT WAS ART. THAT HAD PROPER MEANING. AND I BET IT DIDN'T COST SOME EXORBITANT PRICE WAY BEYOND WHAT I, AS AN UNACCOMPLISHED NON-ART CRITIC WITH ABSOLUTELY BUGGER-ALL TRAINING IN THE FIELD OF ART, ART HISTORY OR ART CRITICISM, BELIEVE IT OUGHT TO BE WORTH."

"Please leave."

"I LIKE PEARS."

stuff.

[Tiara]

@ Blaise

[Flipside]

[Blaise Russel]

Awesome.

[vyper]

Dude, it's a bag of rubbish. Come on.

[Petrarch of the VBB]

Blaise gains respect -3!

[Blaise Russel]

Mate, [any painting you like] is splotches of paint on a canvas. Think about it.

Blaise gains respect -3!

Um, okay.

Unless you're referring to the rather blatant rip of JE Sawyer, of course. But if you mean my not buying into the viewpoint that 'certain things' are not 'art' because 'said things' do not conform to my expectations of what 'art' should be, and my saying so... um, okay.



A discussion would be nice.