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Yes, But Is It ART?

August 30th 2006 04:37
“This morning I looked down at my unmade bed and decided that it was art and I should not destroy it.” Anonymous
Yes, but is it art?

What a logical idea! I’ll definitely be giving this excuse to Mum when she whines about the state of my room tomorrow morning. “Sorry Mum. But I need to express myself. It’s art you see!” It might not work though, considering I don’t have an artistic bone in my body (a popular family joke, at my expense, is what my art teacher wrote on my report in year 8 - “Ceramics is obviously not her thing” – what a cow! I was crushed).


There seems to be an ever increasing amount of junk nowadays that can be classified as art. I remember a hilarious Absolutely Fabulous episode when Eddie looks at a coffin and says: “It’s a dead body” and Patsy replies, “Yes, but is it art?” In class the other day I learnt about a urinal that was placed in an art gallery, the artist claiming that it was art. Eww…

Who out there knows of any other weird and random art forms?


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Comment by ag

August 31st 2006 08:08
During the Sculpture By The Sea exhibition last year someone went around the streets of Bondi and put up unsolicited plaques next to thrown-out furniture and other rubbish saying "Sculpture By The Sea Off Site Exhibit" with details of the 'artist' and the 'work'. I thought it was a clever comment on postmodernity and the state of contemporary art, and they had me fooled.

Comment by RachDegab

September 1st 2006 00:35
Hahhaha! That's cool Ag!

RachDegab

Comment by Adrian

September 20th 2006 06:05
Manzoni's notorious piece was "Artist's merde" -- he canned five hundred pieces of his faeces.

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