rachel on 1/4/2009 at 09:13
Where is the TARDIS, Tocky?
PigLick on 1/4/2009 at 09:41
Tocky totally rockin the Dr Who look
Gryzemuis on 2/4/2009 at 13:08
Quote Posted by Tocky
As RBJ said, is it art? I say hell yes, who's with me?
In 1917, a French artist called (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel_Duchamp) Duchamps made an artwork called (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fountain_(Duchamp)) Fountain. There was an open art exhibition that allowed all types of arts to be sent in. Duchamp sent in a standard urinal, that he called "Fountain". This was a statement that anything is art, as long as someone calls it art. This was a major event in art history. Since then, you can hardly discuss anymore whether something is art or not.
But imho the picture you linked is just a decoration. Not art. Unless there is some nice story or meaning behind the picture. Which I don't think there is. As I've stated before in this thread, I think art is about ideas, not about execution. I don't think there's much idea behind the picture.
Kolya on 2/4/2009 at 13:36
Except maybe that... REDHEADS ARE TOTALLY HOT!!! :D
Oh and I think we all know Duchamps' pissoir fountain.
Sulphur on 2/4/2009 at 15:33
yay for pre-emptive tags, i knew you guys wouldn't let me down
Yesterday's featured article on the Wiki was the MOBA. Since people had mentioned this intriguing institution in this very thread, I had to read more about it.
This is what the article had to say:
The Museum of Bad Art (MOBA) is a world-renowned institution dedicated to showcasing the finest art acquired from Boston-area refuse. The museum started in a pile of trash in 1994, in a serendipitous moment when an antiques dealer came across a painting of astonishing power and compositional incompetence that had been tragically discarded. Its magnetic pull was immediate; it has since inspired a collection of 500 masterful pieces of art so awful they prompt viewers to appeal loudly for divine intervention. Located next to two Massachusetts bathrooms, the museum's collection aspires to be a monument to creative ecstasy that has resulted in glorious failure. Only the most arresting paintings and sculptures are accepted by MOBA, but priority goes to those that prominently feature a monkey or a poodle. Public reaction has been overwhelming, freeing the art-loving community to point and laugh at art everywhere. Two of their pieces have been stolen, so alarming the museum that they promptly offered a reward in the amount of $6.50 for their return. Some of their more notable pieces show a footless John Ashcroft wearing a diaper, and a hula skirt-wearing wiener dog juggling bones. Such enigmatic images invoke so many mysteries that they are often unable to be explained by artists themselves.
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This has since been taken down, of course, by people with no sense of humour or appreciation for April Fool's Pranks. But surely, it is quite the work of art in itself.
Nicker on 2/4/2009 at 18:34
About five years ago I happened past the Ayden Gallery in the Tinsel Town Mall, Vancouver. Now I have often seen art I fancied, even loved, but the works I saw that day compelled me to spend money I really didn’t have (i.e. I was sharing a one bedroom apartment with a fellow musician to economise following my move to the coast).
The artist is Jordan Bent and at that time he was just emerging as a professional painter. This was one of his first public showings, just a half dozen paintings. He now has a very solid career as a professional painter and has progressed through numerous “periods” of style. I have several of his earlier works, including a pen and ink drawing, a delicate water-colour, a subdued early acrylic and a large and vibrant example from his “Matador” period.
What I love about his work, apart from his command of his medium and deft hand, is the humanity of his compositions. He manages to caricature his subjects and their situations without betraying or exploiting their vulnerability.
His work has great narrative content and I love his repeated use of symbolism. In an earlier time (if he hadn’t been burned at the stake) he would have produced inspiring iconography for the church. Fortunately he is able to pursue and reveal his own mythology.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nrgnemxnw5w&feature=related)
This video, though of poor image quality, is a convenient assembly of examples. Please mute the music though – Starry Starry Night (Vincent), while being a touching song about a tortured artist, has no creative or emotional relevance to the images or Jordan Bent himself.
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http://www.jordanbent.com/)
His website is being reconstructed (but bookmark it for future reference) so finding high quality images is hard but feel free to Google.
Jason Moyer on 2/4/2009 at 19:45
Sulphur, that description makes it sound less like a museum of bad art (whatever the hell that means, snotty art fags would have probably shit on most of their heroes had they been contemporaries) and more like a museum of kitsch.
Sulphur on 2/4/2009 at 20:14
True, but the line between bad art as a result of technical incompetence and bad art as a result of bad taste is a bit blurred these days. Heck, if you look at some of this stuff from a certain angle, you'd even be tempted to say that the one begets the other.
Of course, the MOBA hosts works that fall within both of the above categories, so the joke doesn't really work if you're familiar with what it does. Still, I thought it was a good stab at gleefully silly misrepresentation, one that was worth a couple of chuckles.
