Crud

STEED · 08-12-08, 10:28 AM

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Flying piece of art causes museum chaos in Switzerland

GENEVA (AFP) - A giant inflatable dog turd by American artist Paul McCarthy blew away from an exhibition in the garden of a Swiss museum, bringing down a power line and breaking a greenhouse window before it landed again, the museum said Monday.
The art work, titled "Complex S(expletive..)", is the size of a house. The wind carried it 200 metres (yards) from the Paul Klee Centre in Berne before it fell back to Earth in the grounds of a children's home, said museum director Juri Steiner.
The inflatable turd broke the window at the children's home when it blew away on the night of July 31, Steiner said. The art work has a safety system which normally makes it deflate when there is a storm, but this did not work when it blew away.
Steiner said McCarthy had not yet been contacted and the museum was not sure if the piece would be put back on display.

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/afp/2008081...html?printer=1

Modern art............

rifleman13 · 08-12-08, 10:42 AM

I don't understand "Modern Art"...

I'm not much of an art aficionado but...

I prefer classical art since I could understand it better...

HunterICX · 08-12-08, 10:55 AM

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Steiner said McCarthy had not yet been contacted and the museum was not sure if the piece of DogSh¡t would be put back on display.

HunterICX

rifleman13 · 08-12-08, 11:05 AM

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Steiner said McCarthy had not yet been contacted and the museum was not sure if the piece of DogSh¡t would be put back on display.

Nice addendum, HunterICX!
:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

SUBMAN1 · 08-12-08, 11:13 AM

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Originally Posted by STEED

Modern art............

There is no art in a POS.

-S

jumpy · 08-12-08, 12:47 PM

Yea, modern art - it's a load of bollocks.

Way back when, when I was studying art at university

a friend of mine and I thought up an ironic idea for a combined work, with the intention of drawing attention to our tutor's total lack of decency and common sense when it came to anything rubbish. The guy wasn't into people who could really paint or draw, but if you knocked up any old piece of tat in the free period before lunch on a friday, he thought the sun shone out of your arse.

Anyway, our proposal was as follows:

Required: one large empty room with bare walls (painted white). Two chest high plinths, wood or stone. Two large glass specimen jars with lids. Formaldehyde (enough to fill both jars). One whole cows brain. One pair of bulls testicles.
Brief: place the two plinths at opposite ends of the room with a jar atop of each, one containing the aforementioned formaldehyde and brain, the other formaldehyde and testicles. The room is to be devoid of all other decoration and accoutrements.

Sadly due to petty officials in brussels, we could not buy the necessary offal, nor would the university's medical department be persuaded to part with any of its precious formaldehyde, or at least certainly not to a pair of scruffy art students. I bet damien bloody hirst never had such problems. The git. (just goes to show it's not what you know it's who you know, eh?).

I think it would have been a great exhibit come the end of the course, with many a patron chuckling quietly to themselves after they 'got it'.

Trouble today is, most so called modern art takes itself way too seriously indeed, like it really matters or something. When in reality after you've thought about it for a bit, it's just a load of pretentious old bollocks.

[brian sewell] see how this pile of old house bricks is a parallel for the degradation of the urban society and the life therein...[/brian sewell]

Konovalov · 08-12-08, 02:52 PM

I wish all dog turd would just quickly blow away in the wind. I once stood on doggy doo doo on the way to a job interview. Didn't get the job. Turned out that the job was sh*t anyway.

Tchocky · 08-12-08, 03:24 PM

Me wonders what Marcel Duchamp would make of this.

@ jumpy - I like it

UnderseaLcpl · 08-12-08, 07:59 PM

The key to enjoying modern art is to make like one of the townspeople in the fable "The Emperor's New Clothes".

Platapus · 08-13-08, 04:57 AM

Perhaps if we dissolved the NEA in this country, we could cut down on this type of art.

I seriously doubt any artist could get individual or corporate sponsorship for ...uh.. crap like that.

Kapitan_Phillips · 08-13-08, 06:49 AM

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Originally Posted by rifleman13

I don't understand "Modern Art"...

I'm not much of an art aficionado but...

I prefer classical art since I could understand it better...

Yeah, me too. However, my reason is classical art isnt complete ****. (pun intended)

Jimbuna · 08-13-08, 07:22 AM

Sounds like a load of sh!t to me :p

STEED · 08-13-08, 07:24 AM

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Originally Posted by jimbuna

Sounds like a load of sh!t to me :p

Inflatable.

Konovalov · 08-13-08, 07:56 AM

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Originally Posted by STEED

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Originally Posted by jimbuna

Sounds like a load of sh!t to me :p

Inflatable.

Hopefully odourless.

Jimbuna · 08-13-08, 08:21 AM

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Originally Posted by STEED

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Originally Posted by jimbuna

Sounds like a load of sh!t to me :p

Inflatable.

Hopefully odourless.

Might as well go for colourless as well.

08-12-08, 12:47 PM	#6
jumpy Admiral Join Date: May 2003 Location: Midlands, UK Posts: 2,139 Downloads: 22 Uploads: 0	Yea, modern art - it's a load of bollocks. Way back when, when I was studying art at university a friend of mine and I thought up an ironic idea for a combined work, with the intention of drawing attention to our tutor's total lack of decency and common sense when it came to anything rubbish. The guy wasn't into people who could really paint or draw, but if you knocked up any old piece of tat in the free period before lunch on a friday, he thought the sun shone out of your arse. Anyway, our proposal was as follows: Required: one large empty room with bare walls (painted white). Two chest high plinths, wood or stone. Two large glass specimen jars with lids. Formaldehyde (enough to fill both jars). One whole cows brain. One pair of bulls testicles. Brief: place the two plinths at opposite ends of the room with a jar atop of each, one containing the aforementioned formaldehyde and brain, the other formaldehyde and testicles. The room is to be devoid of all other decoration and accoutrements. Sadly due to petty officials in brussels, we could not buy the necessary offal, nor would the university's medical department be persuaded to part with any of its precious formaldehyde, or at least certainly not to a pair of scruffy art students. I bet damien bloody hirst never had such problems. The git. (just goes to show it's not what you know it's who you know, eh?). I think it would have been a great exhibit come the end of the course, with many a patron chuckling quietly to themselves after they 'got it'. Trouble today is, most so called modern art takes itself way too seriously indeed, like it really matters or something. When in reality after you've thought about it for a bit, it's just a load of pretentious old bollocks. [brian sewell] see how this pile of old house bricks is a parallel for the degradation of the urban society and the life therein...[/brian sewell] __________________ when you’ve been so long in the desert, any water, no matter how brackish, looks like life

08-12-08, 02:52 PM	#7
Konovalov Ocean Warrior Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: High Wycombe, Bucks, UK Posts: 2,811 Downloads: 9 Uploads: 0	I wish all dog turd would just quickly blow away in the wind. I once stood on doggy doo doo on the way to a job interview. Didn't get the job. Turned out that the job was sh*t anyway. __________________ "In a Christian context, sexuality is traditionally seen as a consequence of the Fall, but for Muslims, it is an anticipation of paradise. So I can say, I think, that I was validly converted to Islam by a teenage French Jewish nudist." Sheikh Abdul-Hakim Murad (Timothy Winter)

08-12-08, 03:24 PM	#8
Tchocky Navy Seal Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 5,874 Downloads: 6 Uploads: 0	Me wonders what Marcel Duchamp would make of this. @ jumpy - I like it __________________ [SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]

08-12-08, 07:59 PM	#9
UnderseaLcpl Silent Hunter Join Date: May 2008 Location: Storming the beaches! Posts: 4,254 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	The key to enjoying modern art is to make like one of the townspeople in the fable "The Emperor's New Clothes". __________________ I stole this sig from Task Force

08-13-08, 04:57 AM	#10
Platapus Fleet Admiral Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 19,360 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 0	Perhaps if we dissolved the NEA in this country, we could cut down on this type of art. I seriously doubt any artist could get individual or corporate sponsorship for ...uh.. crap like that. __________________ abusus non tollit usum - A right should NOT be withheld from people on the basis that some tend to abuse that right.

08-12-08, 10:42 AM	#2
rifleman13 Grey Wolf Join Date: May 2008 Location: Depth-charged to Kingdom Come Posts: 927 Downloads: 28 Uploads: 0	I don't understand "Modern Art"... I'm not much of an art aficionado but... I prefer classical art since I could understand it better...

08-13-08, 07:22 AM	#12
Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 190,453 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	Sounds like a load of sh!t to me :p __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!!