But is it art?

Stefan Maguran · Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2009 11:03 am Post subject: But is it art?

Forget about water and landscapes with pretty shacks and naked children.
Carcasses and dismembered body parts and piles of dirt, mon ami, that's what gets you in galleries and the media today:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/10/06/2705640.htm

thecatsgrin · Joined: 18 Apr 2009 Posts: 1808 Location: Gippsland

When it comes down to it though... what would the majority of people like to have hanging around on their walls!!??

Personally I would rather be selling art (mine of course!! Very Happy

) than have it in a gallery and be of an un-saleable nature!!
The english have some strange taste at the best of times!! Laughing

Stefan Maguran · Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2009 11:58 am Post subject:

And mad cows. Smile

Daniel · Joined: 06 Jul 2007 Posts: 2289 Location: Shydney

Edited by GGGraph - If this was a response to another innapropriate post, please let me know and I'll remove that too.

By the way with any exhibition, it's not the artist, it the curator that counts.
And if the curators want to show these sorts of exhibits then that's fine by me.

Stefan Maguran

Although you are right about the curator, you need an "artist" to create the work for the poor curator to be able to decide.

Daniel · Joined: 06 Jul 2007 Posts: 2289 Location: Shydney

Edited by GGGraph

thecatsgrin · Joined: 18 Apr 2009 Posts: 1808 Location: Gippsland

Devilbiss... now you have posted my photo on the web, everyone will recognise me !! Laughing

You should have waited till I had my coffee at least...

Jo Tyler · Joined: 13 Aug 2008 Posts: 453 Location: Newcastle

Good one Wendy

As I have absolutely no clue Rolling Eyes

as to what's going on I'd like to respond to the question, I like the coal sculptures and what I saw of the whale bone shown through the slits in the box was somehow intriguing, what is it, what does the shape remind me of? Hey the TATE has a glass shelf with a glass on it high on the wall Shocked

this a step up.

Daniel · Joined: 06 Jul 2007 Posts: 2289 Location: Shydney

Stefan Maguran · Posted: Thu Oct 08, 2009 3:22 am Post subject: Re - But is it art?

That human has lost his sense of humour, from what I can see.

gggraph · Posted: Thu Oct 08, 2009 6:56 am Post subject: Re - But is it art?

hey, I really like that one, Devilbiss. When are you going to put the water in? Wink

Grant

ocker1 · Joined: 27 Sep 2008 Posts: 376 Location: NZ

over here some clown tipped the contents of a rubbish bin out on a tray and it won $15,000 gov grant
in Christchurch another F---ing idiot sold the bloody council a truck load of coal for $38,000

JEEEEEEEEZ when real, true, young artists get sweet F A

Daniel · Joined: 06 Jul 2007 Posts: 2289 Location: Shydney

Stefan Maguran · Posted: Thu Oct 22, 2009 2:34 pm Post subject: Re - But is it art?

Must have scared the art of poor devilbiss - he had to change his name, but I'm not allowed to use it? What to do, what to do?

AndyE · Joined: 09 Jul 2006 Posts: 584

Although not as good as that light that flicked itself on and off, or Tracey Emins bed. But the whale bone and dust thing sound interesting.

thanks for the link