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Contemporary artists!
imonfire:
Gottfried Helnwein
http://www.helnwein.com/
Spluff:
Second to the left of the bottom picture - arseface?
KharBevNor:
--- Quote from: a pack of wolves on 11 Apr 2008, 02:53 ---there was a massive amount of work behind a piece like Fountain even if Duchamp didn't sculpt it himself.
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The story behind Fountain is rather interesting. Duchamp was, at the time, a board member of a group called the Society For Independent Artists, who put on an exhibition which they claimed would display any submission. Duchamp made Fountain specifically to test their commitment: that is why it is signed 'R. Mutt', he was hiding his involvement. When the Society decided that Fountain wasn't art and refused to show it, he resigned from the board because they did not have sufficient commitment to their own lofty claims. I'm reasonably sure that the original Fountain wasn't even ever exhibited at all: it doesn't exist now, as it was thrown away by accident. There are six authorised reproductions, however, in various art museums. At least two of them have been urinated in by Situationalists.
It's also possibly the most influential piece of the 20th century; I believe it has been voted as such.
As an artist, I find the general attitude of a lot of people towards fine art (that it is talentless bullshit) highly annoying and insulting. Art is extremely hard work, requiring skill, imagination and intellectual rigour. You say 'anyone could have thought of that', 'my kid could have painted that'. But you didn't. Also, here I'm going to post as an example of this a recent article that really pissed me the fuck off.
http://www.cracked.com/article_16107_6-best-shenanigans-passed-off-as-art.html
Fucking enfuriating. I really don't see how Piss Christ is so hard to understand. I suspect most people can't get over the HURR HURR reaction or whatever. It's not just a crucifix in piss. Not at all. And the cloaca machines? Fucking philistines.
Appropriation art is a bit of a con though. Wish I'd thought of it.
öde:
I've never really looked towards Cracked for art criticism.
Johnny C:
Since I guess I now have seven posts to use up I will use one of them to talk to you fine people about Do-Ho Suh.
Seoul Home and Staircase, above, are part of a series of works where he painstakingly recreates his own living spaces in silk.
This is Paratrooper. Suh has this to say about it:
--- Quote ---If there's no parachute, then the soldier dies. He has to use it. But when he finally lands, he has to fight in a completely unknown territory. That's something I felt when I went to the United States. It's a parachute that is directly tied into your life.
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The strings tie into this:
Three thousand signatures.
Cause & Effect, made from thousands of interlocking plastic figurines.
Karma.
Floor.
It goes on and on. Easily my favourite contemporary artist.
EDIT: I think that Cracked article is just taking the piss (Christ). I doubt this:
--- Quote ---It looks more like Christ captured in amber
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was an accident.
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