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But is it art?
« on: May 28, 2012, 01:45:15 AM »
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/news/blank-canvas-london-gallery-unveils-invisible-art-exhibition-7767057.html

Apparently there is an exhibition on showing... nothing.

Is it art? Or anything for that matter?
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Re: But is it art?
« Reply #1 on: May 28, 2012, 02:11:48 AM »
Not in the slightest, and I hope some-one has the sense and argumentative skill to sue them for plagiarism. Maybe the frame makers...
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Re: But is it art?
« Reply #2 on: May 28, 2012, 02:26:10 AM »
What a great idea!

I'm gonna make a blank web page and charge people to see it!

Do you think $15 a viewing is too much?

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Re: But is it art?
« Reply #3 on: May 28, 2012, 04:06:53 AM »
It does bring up the question, did the emperor just have a superior sense of fashion when he bought his new clothes? Are we really the ones with the problem?
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Re: But is it art?
« Reply #4 on: May 28, 2012, 05:04:17 AM »
Quote from: AcdQueen89 on May 28, 2012, 04:06:53 AM
Are we really the ones with the problem?

I'm pretty sure that's the case.
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Re: But is it art?
« Reply #5 on: May 28, 2012, 10:48:11 AM »


'To the left you see a painting of a snow leopard caught in a blizzard, to the right you see a Liberal Democrat Manifesto'
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Re: But is it art?
« Reply #6 on: May 28, 2012, 01:36:22 PM »
Quote from: The Hanged Man on May 28, 2012, 10:48:11 AM
'To the left you see a painting of a snow leopard caught in a blizzard, to the right you see a Liberal Democrat Manifesto'

Have I Got News For You, I can't see the leopard.  :laugh:

Okay, not really news.

But yeah, that's the Lib Dems all right.
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Re: But is it art?
« Reply #7 on: May 30, 2012, 02:46:08 PM »
"Less is more" - Mies Van Der Rohe (architect)

"Less is a bore" - Robert Venturi (architect)

  I have a special kind of hatred for minimalist art. Rather than making something that, god forbid shows personality and that some people might criticise, or worse yet hate, the minimalist creates nothing and acts all pretentious about it.
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Re: But is it art?
« Reply #8 on: May 30, 2012, 06:29:08 PM »
Quote from: KMD on May 30, 2012, 02:46:08 PM
Rather than making something that, god forbid shows personality and that some people might criticise, or worse yet hate, the minimalist creates nothing and acts all pretentious about it.

The worst thing of all is that people have started to let them and buy into it. Paying them will only encourage them, and thanks to exhibitions like this and glorifying, let's face it, crap 'art', we've got another wave of them coming. Thankfully though, it's having a reverse-effect in some places and driving people back to fine art, something we should never have moved away from. Hopefully one of my fine artist friends will make it, and we can be all the better off for it.
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Re: But is it art?
« Reply #9 on: May 30, 2012, 07:03:20 PM »
When one is displaying "nothing" as something, and believes it to be so important, what does that mean in the case of their thoughts?

Either they would be an interesting person to discuss things with.... or they would be the most disapointing to talk with. in this case my money is on disapointing.
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Re: But is it art?
« Reply #10 on: May 30, 2012, 07:55:54 PM »
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Re: But is it art?
« Reply #11 on: May 30, 2012, 08:21:53 PM »
It's probably my view on humanity that influences this opinion, but... In all honesty I don't blame the people who made this exhibition... I blame the morons who pay £8 for a ticket to see blank A4 sheets of paper... hell if I knew people were this stupid, I would probably do the same.

In fact  ;D I might.
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