The Great Art Debate

[Lost Leopard Spot]

What's the thing dangling out of her ass ??

That is not her ass.

[Bruce Rioja]

Miro's Ballerina II:

I liked that so much that I told my wife I'd like a print of it. I have it on good authority that a framed print may be arriving just in time for my birthday in a few days time.

Give me £30,000 and I'll add any other colour you like to it. Bit of green maybe? Bargain!

[TANGODANCER]

Miro's Ballerina II:

I liked that so much that I told my wife I'd like a print of it. I have it on good authority that a framed print may be arriving just in time for my birthday in a few days time.

I can guess Tango's view of same.

I'm seeing the blue shades of the night meeting the gold fringes of the day in shimmering irridescence, whilst the revered Chinese balleriana, Yin-Yang does her famous naked, rubber legged version of the Sugar Plum Fairy. To the side a snake is climbing a rope without a safety net whilst watching Flight of the Bumble Bee performed by a wasp, intoxicated on the sheer mystical magnetism emanating from the vibrations of the karma inducing sound waves of the theme music from Billy Elliot.

...I think...

[Lost Leopard Spot]

Miro's Ballerina II:

I liked that so much that I told my wife I'd like a print of it. I have it on good authority that a framed print may be arriving just in time for my birthday in a few days time.

I can guess Tango's view of same.

I'm seeing the blue shades of the night meeting the gold fringes of the day in shimmering irridescence, whilst the revered Chinese balleriana, Yin-Yang does her famous naked, rubber legged version of the Sugar Plum Fairy. To the side a snake is climbing a rope without a safety net whilst watching Flight of the Bumble Bee performed by a wasp, intoxicated on the sheer mystical magnetism emanating from the vibrations of the karma inducing sound waves of the theme music from Billy Elliot.

...I think...

Glorious

[bobo the clown]

What's the thing dangling out of her ass ??

That is not her ass.

Fair point. I thought she'd had a prolapse.

The question (sans the word 'ass') remains.

[Lost Leopard Spot]

What's the thing dangling out of her ass ??

That is not her ass.

Fair point. I thought she'd had a prolapse.

The question (sans the word 'ass') remains.

It is obviously Terpsichore the goddess of dance in her spider guise, obviously.

[William the White]

This idea makes me smile...

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I'm voting for a massive Tracy Emin in a certain street in farnworth...

[Bruce Rioja]

This idea makes me smile...

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-enter ... 68595.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

I'm voting for a massive Tracy Emin in a certain street in farnworth...

And what, pray, has Farnworth done to you?

[William the White]

This idea makes me smile...

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-enter ... 68595.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

I'm voting for a massive Tracy Emin in a certain street in farnworth...

And what, pray, has Farnworth done to you?

I just want to cheer up TANGO, tis all...

[Lost Leopard Spot]

This idea makes me smile...

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-enter ... 68595.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

I'm voting for a massive Tracy Emin in a certain street in farnworth...

And what, pray, has Farnworth done to you?

I just want to cheer up TANGO, tis all...

Well I feel a massive Tracy Emin ain't the way forward.

[William the White]

This idea makes me smile...

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-enter ... 68595.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

I'm voting for a massive Tracy Emin in a certain street in farnworth...

And what, pray, has Farnworth done to you?

I just want to cheer up TANGO, tis all...

Well I feel a massive Tracy Emin ain't the way forward.

He doesn't know it yet, but I just know he'll love it when he gets to see it daily...

[TANGODANCER]

This idea makes me smile...

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-enter ... 68595.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

I'm voting for a massive Tracy Emin in a certain street in farnworth...

I'll settle for Ophelia or a Turner for preference thanks.

[mummywhycantieatcrayons]

This idea makes me smile...

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-enter ... 68595.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

I'm voting for a massive Tracy Emin in a certain street in farnworth...

The idea made me smile... at first.

Then I read that it was Richard Reed's brainchild and my suspicious cogs started whirring.

My understanding is that advertising space is increasingly difficult to sell at premium rate.

Has Richard Reed, the bland guy behind the company that sells drinks with more sugar in them than Coke as an 'innocent' health product, really managed to persuade the public to 'donate' to buy surplus advertising space from his mates in the advertising industry, as if it were some kind of charitable pursuit, all the time building his own 'profile'?

A look down the pictures available is also a sad reminder of just how second rate British artists have tended to be. It always makes me laugh when many of the better pictures in these collections of 'British art' are by a German.

[mrkint]

Well Coke have invested in Innocent. Is there a link for sugar content there? WHO KNOWS.

You'd never guess Reed worked in advertising for four years before sodding off to make over-marketed shite, would you.

[mrkint]

Heh

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-23041236" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[mummywhycantieatcrayons]

Well Coke have invested in Innocent. Is there a link for sugar content there? WHO KNOWS.

You'd never guess Reed worked in advertising for four years before sodding off to make over-marketed shite, would you.

Actually I didn't know that and thought he had had a few years in management consultancy after Cambridge, but I have now checked his Linkedin profile and it seems you're absolutely right (it seems I was thinking of the other two he founded Innocent with).

I'm now even more convinced it's an advertising industry stitch up!

[mummywhycantieatcrayons]

He's a real boring c*nt too - have you seen the campaign's 'launch video' with him in it?

[mummywhycantieatcrayons]

This idea makes me smile...

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-enter ... 68595.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

I'm voting for a massive Tracy Emin in a certain street in farnworth...

Pre-Raphaelites, Whistler (another well known Brit) and Turner storming the public vote so far.

[William the White]

This idea makes me smile...

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-enter ... 68595.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

I'm voting for a massive Tracy Emin in a certain street in farnworth...

Pre-Raphaelites, Whistler (another well known Brit) and Turner storming the public vote so far.

Tango will be happy. Curly haired Ophelias coming to a farnworth bill board...

[TANGODANCER]

This idea makes me smile...

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-enter ... 68595.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

I'm voting for a massive Tracy Emin in a certain street in farnworth...

Pre-Raphaelites, Whistler (another well known Brit) and Turner storming the public vote so far.

Tango will be happy. Curly haired Ophelias coming to a farnworth bill board...

New ideas? Like you don't remember the billboards aound Shepherd Cross Street. "Coming to a cinema near you...Gone with the Wind..and all that?