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Amazing what some twats think is art. Apparently it isn't what it is, it is what it is meant to represent that makes it art and not just a pile of vegetables.

What other total arsery in the name of Art grinds your gears? Or do you think any expression as long as it is in an artistic form is ok?

For my tuppence worth I don't mind modern art per se but a lot of it is utter ****ery.

Tracey Emin - spunk stained sheets. ****.
Damien Hirst - pickled sheep. ****.
Chris Ofili - painting with elephant sh.it. ****.
Roy Lichtenstein - pop art. Good Guy.
 
Modern Art is what I like.
The likes of Emin and Hurst are Conceptual Artists, doesn’t do it for me.
Pre 1880 or thereabouts art was boring.
 
stopmeandslapme said:
Modern Art is what I like.
The likes of Emin and Hurst are Conceptual Artists, doesn’t do it for me.
Pre 1880 or thereabouts art was boring.
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I don't think art has ever been boring. Those Italian Renaissance bods had a bit of flair. Angels bursting out of the sky, Demons and dragons and **** everywhere, crucifixions, rapes, allsorts. John Constable spent days staring at clouds, trying to paint something that never stopped changing. William Blake was a visionary, he saw angels sitting in a tree when he was 9 years old on his way home from school. Spent his whole life in a state of rapture, trying to record what his imagination revealed to him.

Van Gogh did some eyeball pleasers. But he did not paint the Mona Lisa. That was an Italian geezer.
 
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stopmeandslapme said:
Modern Art is what I like.
The likes of Emin and Hurst are Conceptual Artists, doesn’t do it for me.
Pre 1880 or thereabouts art was boring.
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You like a load of Jackson Pollocks then?

Had a polarising conversation with an arty type over Dadaism. He said the movement was to make art out of the absurd, I said people paying £100k for a shovel were twats. There was no common ground to be had.

More of an Old Masters type myself although I do like the 50's and 60's pop art largely because of the affinity to comic books. Your Kandinskys, Warhols, and Mondrians I get. A pile of bricks I don't.

You can often find me wandering the halls of the National Gallery. If you tag on to school groups you can get a free guided tour. You can also get slung out by security.
 
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I like the stuff Nazis stole from Jews and the Popes stole from most everyone else.
 
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Play up Pompeii said:
I don't think art has ever been boring. Those Italian Renaissance bods had a bit of flair. Angels bursting out of the sky, Demons and dragons and **** everywhere, crucifixions, rapes, allsorts. John Constable spent days staring at clouds, trying to paint something that never stopped changing. William Blake was a visionary, he saw angels sitting in a tree when he was 9 years old on his way home from school. Spent his whole life in a state of rapture, trying to record what his imagination revealed to him.

Van Gogh did some eyeball pleasers. But he did not paint the Mona Lisa. That was an Italian geezer.
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Yeah not all boring. Pre-Raphaelites were good. Got a fine collection of that in Birmingham museum and gallery.
 
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You like a load of Jackson Pollocks then?

Had a polarising conversation with an arty type over Dadaism. He said the movement was to make art out of the absurd, I said people paying £100k for a shovel were twats. There was no common ground to be had.

More of an Old Masters type myself although I do like the 50's and 60's pop art largely because of the affinity to comic books. Your Kandinskys, Warhols, and Mondrians I get. A pile of bricks I don't.

You can often find me wandering the halls of the National Gallery. If you tag on to school groups you can get a free guided tour. You can also get slung out by security.
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I did one half of Tate Modern last year, need to go back do the rest. Brimful of poon.
 
GroveRanger said:
You like a load of Jackson Pollocks then?

Had a polarising conversation with an arty type over Dadaism. He said the movement was to make art out of the absurd, I said people paying £100k for a shovel were twats. There was no common ground to be had.

More of an Old Masters type myself although I do like the 50's and 60's pop art largely because of the affinity to comic books. Your Kandinskys, Warhols, and Mondrians I get. A pile of bricks I don't.

You can often find me wandering the halls of the National Gallery. If you tag on to school groups you can get a free guided tour. You can also get slung out by security.
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No not a fan of Pollock, but he did do it first. Remember the old Fosters advert?
 
That 29 ton of carrot should of been used to feed livestock.

I'm sure the farmer made a massive mark up on the thick ****s and the tax payer ended up paying the bill anyway.

Not impressed
 
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