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Post by PeterL on Jan 20, 2011 13:41:59 GMT
This may be some peoples idea of art but it is most defiantly not mine the old masters like Constable, Turner, Goya, Rembrant michelangelo, and Leonardo da Vinci Must be turning in there graves at so much of the rubish produced to day which people call art Read More Here
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Post by Ned Long on Jan 21, 2011 16:19:11 GMT
"There is no such thing as modern art. There is art...and there is advertising!" So wrote Albert Sterner, and he was right. Modern art is the emperors new clothes writ large. Some con merchant, like Emin, produces a pile of tat, and the glitterati all say, "look at the style, the wit..how brilliant". And the idiots who like to consider themselves avante guarde all go along with it. That is hiw a photograp of an unmade bed becomes valued at tens of thousands of pounds.
It needs someone like the little boy in the story to cry out at one of these modern art exhibitions, "Look, the emperor is bollock naked!!!"
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Post by lagenda on Jan 24, 2011 2:03:10 GMT
I too am inclined to feel that much of modern art is a con. Recently I saw programme on TV here that featured a horse in the USA that had been taught to hold a paint brush and daub on a canvass. The so called paintings are being sold for several thousand dollars to gullible buyers. Remember that exhibit in the Tate that was three layers of red bricks on the floor in a rectangle? Another con in the name of art. ‘ Talking of the kings new clothes; This is exactly what I think of when I see some of the top fashion designers parading their clothes on the catwalk. It is only on the catwalk at a fashion show they could wear them. They would look ridiculous and risible worn anywhere else. I suppose you could call it a bit of haute Couture tongue-in-cheek fun, but the art thing is deadly serious and pulls in big money.
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