The quality taste of fine art examiners...

[MoP]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/southern_counties/5081744.stm

Check out this article on BBC News about a guy who submitted a sculpture for a show, but the plinth ended up getting displayed because the critics thought it was better...

So ridiculous! :xpld:

[blog]

i HAVEN'T READ THE ARTICLE, BUT. W.......................T......................F?

[nofingers]

That makes no sense at all

[asoir]

Ack, bullshit! I hate this kinda stuff.

[Blue]

Hahahaahahahahaa

[DavePalumbo]

that's so funny it left me gaping

[dfacto]

This strikes me as a sort of artistic naivet'e. It's like kids who get toys and start playing with the packaging instead.

Or maybe they're crazy. Or maybe they figure you'd get a lot more interest in something inane, rather than a grotesque head.

[nofingers]

Sure, as a kid, I thought that a carboard box was a racecar, but these are professionals, or so the sculptor thought. When confronted with the delimna of choosing between a laughing head, and a wooden Q-tip, they choose they latter. WTF?

[[void]]

I'm still waiting for the anti-fine art backlash, I think that we have reached the extreme of artistic freedom from the rules that were set up before the victorian times on art and now I hope it wont be long before the backswing.


Vive la revolution!!

[fishw]

aahahaha, love it. that's brilliant

[DavePalumbo]

I'm still waiting for the anti-fine art backlash

for the billionth time, "fine art" includes more than just conceptual, post-modern, and abstract. Must we always be generalizing?

[John]

You gotta admit though that was a pretty ugly head sculpture. The exhibition was probably better off without it either way.

[Shamagim]

I wonder what would have happened without that piece of wood...

"ohhh!! It reeperesents nothingness, like there is no heaven...Brilliant!!"


I´m starting to think that some of the art crit´s opinions are based on just social presure and not on art freedom.

They are afraid to bee seen as close minded, or maybe they are afraid of not seeing the deep intelectual meaning each piece has. So if a piece is so simple that you coudn´t possibly figure out nothing from it, you will pretend is a brilliant work of art, just so people see how sensitive you are.

*sigh

[fishw]

the summer exhibition is a bizarre thing. i go every year and it's alway such a mixed bag. it's largely surprisingly traditional, but it's impossible to predict what'll be accepted and what won't.

[Snuggles]

It's a doorknob to the soul. God...don't you guys get it?

>:D

[Ilaekae]

This is so beneath contempt that I absolutely refuse to even comment about the monkey-fucking brain-dead in-bred volunteered-for-multiple-lobotomies pieces of sub-human shit passing themselves off as critics...

[JustinBeckett]

I agree Ilaekae :)

[Ethelbert]

Well I think you have to cut the critics a bit of slack. It must be a terrible burden trying to come up with all those reasons why one piece of crap is superior to another, and then there's all that money counting... yeeh! Life can be so cruel ; P

[dfacto]

Or maybe they just like fucking with the artists.

[thistly]

Come on, the sculpture isn't horrible or anything, sure it isn't as coffeetable-friendly as the plinth, (altough given a choice I'd rather have a sculpture of a maniac head than a.... umm,thingie) but that's not the point of it. It takes skill to sculpt like that.

I find it beyond obnoxious that they're thinking of standing by their mistake, despite the fact that, well, it was a mistake, and it's being bloody rude to the artist.