Modern Art

A work of art or just a pile of seeds?

Chinese artist Ai Weiwei's "sunflower seeds" - a work made up of 10 tonnes of porcelain seed replicas - has been bought by Tate Modern.

The London gallery has acquired around eight million of the 100 million porcelain reproductions.
They make up just under one tenth of the original work, commissioned for the Tate's 2010's Unilever Series.It saw 100 million seeds spread over the floor of the gallery's vast Turbine Hall.

Shortly afterwards it was cordoned off over health and safety fears because of ceramic dust. The gallery initially had plans for visitors to be able to walk on the seeds.

 

Whatever happened to painting a nice picture?

 

What's the point in making that kind of effort when you can tip a pile of any old random **** on the floor and charge ****s to see it

 

Surely the presentation of an installation leading to viewer's interpretation is all important in art.

"Aye, put it in a cone or a square or some **** - I don't give a ****."

Part of me thinks that Beijing should've killed this muppet when they had the chance.

Are the seeds indicative of souls in China or the beautification of previously ugly manufacturing techniques?

Art should make you think and the above two ****er questions are the best I can think off in the moment for this thing.

Hey-ho, art is a good thing

 

**** sake, I could have done that.

I had a massive dump the other day that was perfectly formed, is that art?

 

During the Cultural Revolution, propaganda images showed Chairman Mao as the sun and the mass of people as sunflowers turning towards him.

Dumb ****s

 

Canny see the Louvre rushing to put it on display.

****in modern art. Bunch of unemployable sycophantic self congratulatory arseholes. Artists? Aye, con-****in-artists.

 

I'm starting to like this now - it is forcing you to compare the aesthetic and the figurative with the actual.

Give the fat **** more money

 

Are we talking art here or Celtic

 

You said what we were all thinking

 

You forgot the "juxtaposition". There's always a juxtaposition in modern art. It ain't modern art otherwise.

 

I over-use that word as it is (until my wife pointed out that people pretending to be clever say juxtaposition all the time - trying to phase it out (except in work where any amount of bullshit talking covers up for the fact that I skive most of the day on football forums and ****ing ))

 

What the **** is all this gash going on here ffs

Here's a work of art:

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But is it modern ?

 

I'm guessing she's in her early twenties. So, aye, pretty modern. Whereas Tina is probaby the renaissance period.

 

Next they'll be exhibiting Gambols boyfriends skittered stained sofa.

 

Tina's a tapestry, Hastings circa 1066

 

I could make a fortune at the Tate Gallery. They exhibit all kindsa ****.

 

It's called the Bayeaux tapestry

 

Her ex-husband was called Norman now I come to think of it.