The Great Art Debate

[Lost Leopard Spot]

flooral?

clearly the correct adjective when discussing the hozontality of floors...

If I was the President of Crimea (for example) discussion surrounding any aspect of underfoot housal surfacing, in any of the horizontality, inclinality or verticality aspectalities, would be declared unconstitutional.

[William the White]

flooral?

clearly the correct adjective when discussing the hozontality of floors...

If I was the President of Crimea (for example) discussion surrounding any aspect of underfoot housal surfacing, in any of the horizontality, inclinality or verticality aspectalities, would be declared unconstitutional.

Worthy would offer you a detailed explanation of why that was notpossible...

[Lost Leopard Spot]

...detailed, but incorrect.

[TANGODANCER]

Personally, I think Andre's work is very badly weighted in favour of the horizontality over the verticality. There's also a decided firebrickality in this work that contrasts with the sand/limebrickality idea of the original concept. Now if he had used concentricalilty and constructed the work with equal sided cubes he could have retained the cubicality without losing either the verticality or the horizontality and added a sense of diagonality by equal use of the distances between diagonal corners. This would have given a real sense of believeability about it all, especially if it had been wrapped in heavy-duty polythene and secured with metal banding. There's a fine example of this in Jewson's yard at this moment and, despite the dimensionality of the bricks having unequality , due to clever use of packaging the alternativity of the horizontality with the verticality, a perfect cubicality has resulted. Moneywise, the bricks work out at less than a pound each thus giving them a sense of affordability and also the choice of making whatever shape you wish with them, since if any builder laid bricks in the fashion of Mr Andre he'd be out of a job before he could put sand and cement in the correct mixicality .

[bobo the clown]

It's a rip off by a guy who's taking the piss.

See. Short, sharp and to the point.

You're welcome.

[Lost Leopard Spot]

Your shorticality, sharpicality and correcticality are duly noted.

[Prufrock]

Part of me thinks fair enough if there are people willing to buy it! I'm sure they got together one day in the nineties and decided that if they just pretended it was 'art' and that anyone who said it wasn't just didn't 'get' it, there'd be folk rich enough and stupid enough to give them a shit load of cash pretending they 'got' it too so they'd seem really 'with it'.

If they were giving the money to charity it would a nice Robin Hood story, or a super rich idiot tax.

[William the White]

It's a rip off by a guy who's taking the piss.

See. Short, sharp and to the point.

You're welcome.

FFS! Get off the fence!

[Worthy4England]

...detailed, but incorrect.

Look, Will will tell you, I'm apparently one obdurate bastard (I think was the accolade). I think he admires my dedication and perseverance in this respect.

I remain unflinchingly of the opinion, that as art, that's all good trash, which Brucie posted.

I could draw a parallel with it being the Crimean President's New Clothes - but of course, neither exist.

[William the White]

Now, I happen to know that Bruce spent six hours in MOMA, and they had to throw him out 20 minutes after the official closing time, so enthusiastically was he enjoying the modern art in new York experience...

So far he has, predictably, posted 'modern art is a pile of shite' snippets.

So, what kept you in there until past closing time then? (is there a drumming fingers on desk smiley?)

[Bruce Rioja]

Now, I happen to know that Bruce spent six hours in MOMA, and they had to throw him out 20 minutes after the official closing time, so enthusiastically was he enjoying the modern art in new York experience...

So far he has, predictably, posted 'modern art is a pile of shite' snippets.

So, what kept you in there until past closing time then? (is there a drumming fingers on desk smiley?)

It has a bar.

[William the White]

Now, I happen to know that Bruce spent six hours in MOMA, and they had to throw him out 20 minutes after the official closing time, so enthusiastically was he enjoying the modern art in new York experience...

So far he has, predictably, posted 'modern art is a pile of shite' snippets.

So, what kept you in there until past closing time then? (is there a drumming fingers on desk smiley?)

It has a bar.

Sooner or later the truth will have to be told... (finger drumming smiley)

[bobo the clown]

Designed by Le Corbusier no less

[Worthy4England]

Designed by Le Corbusier no less

It musta been that bastard that fitted me mum's. Do you have the fecker's address?

[TANGODANCER]

Designed by Le Corbusier no less

It musta been that bastard that fitted me mum's. Do you have the fecker's address?

I know that firm. They tarmac driveways and landscape conifers too.

[Montreal Wanderer]

Now, I happen to know that Bruce spent six hours in MOMA, and they had to throw him out 20 minutes after the official closing time, so enthusiastically was he enjoying the modern art in new York experience...

So far he has, predictably, posted 'modern art is a pile of shite' snippets.

So, what kept you in there until past closing time then? (is there a drumming fingers on desk smiley?)

To be fair, in the MOMA there is a distinction between "modern art", which goes back quite a way, and contemporary art which appears to be recent shite.

[Prufrock]

Now, I happen to know that Bruce spent six hours in MOMA, and they had to throw him out 20 minutes after the official closing time, so enthusiastically was he enjoying the modern art in new York experience...

So far he has, predictably, posted 'modern art is a pile of shite' snippets.

So, what kept you in there until past closing time then? (is there a drumming fingers on desk smiley?)

It has a bar.

Are you sure you didn't drink an exhibit?

[Hoboh]

Good quality Scarva firebricks, 120 off £411.80 inc shipping, round it up to £500 and I'll chuck one in your lounge in about 15mins.
PM

[LeverEnd]

Now, I happen to know that Bruce spent six hours in MOMA, and they had to throw him out 20 minutes after the official closing time, so enthusiastically was he enjoying the modern art in new York experience...

So far he has, predictably, posted 'modern art is a pile of shite' snippets.

So, what kept you in there until past closing time then? (is there a drumming fingers on desk smiley?)

It has a bar.

Are you sure you didn't drink an exhibit?

Or barf on the floor and put a Bruce Rioja plaque up next to it?

[jaffka]

Now, I happen to know that Bruce spent six hours in MOMA, and they had to throw him out 20 minutes after the official closing time, so enthusiastically was he enjoying the modern art in new York experience...

So far he has, predictably, posted 'modern art is a pile of shite' snippets.

So, what kept you in there until past closing time then? (is there a drumming fingers on desk smiley?)

It has a bar.

Are you sure you didn't drink an exhibit?

Or barf on the floor and put a Bruce Rioja plaque up next to it?

If he had a foreign sounding name, the value would quadruple as well.