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Contemporary artists!
KharBevNor:
There's a guy on my course who did some paintings with pureed maggots and meat. They looked amazing, but the smell was unbelievable.
godinpants:
I like a lot of the stuff the graffiti research lab are doing.
http://graffitiresearchlab.com
Stuff like the throwies are pretty excellent.
Laser tag and electro-graf are probably my favourites though.
http://graffitiresearchlab.com/?page_id=76#video
jhocking:
oo cool post johnny, I like those sculptures, I'll have to try to see a show in person.
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--- Quote from: Jposh on 16 Apr 2008, 20:54 ---Can a regular painting be considered contemporary?
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Anything made within the last 100 years is considered contemporary.
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Well more like 40 but yeah, painting is very much an important part of the art world.
--- Quote from: Darkbluerabbit on 16 Apr 2008, 22:39 ---From my perspective, the only way I could honestly approve of his methods would be if he had captured the dog, fed it well, "exhibited" it for the three hours, and then adopted it as his own after using it to prove a point. Either way, he's using a living creature to make a statement, but giving the dog a better life off of the streets would be a good "payment" to the dog for being chained up in a fucking gallery.
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Have you heard of the GFP Bunny by Eduardo Kac? What do you think of the ethics of that piece?
jhocking:
double post
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--- Quote from: Darkbluerabbit on 16 Apr 2008, 22:39 ---
--- Quote from: KickThatBathProf on 16 Apr 2008, 14:07 ---Here is an article about it.
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...I generally don't like it when artists use animals, dead or alive, as a medium. I don't care if it's puppies and kittens or rats and jellyfish, it makes me uncomfortable. I guess that's probably the point, but I can't like it or be glad that that kind of art exists. ...
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I agree. I don't mind using them as a subject, which I do quite a bit, but I would never put a live or dead animal in a gallery. (The latter is mostly because taxidermy creeps me out and is also really gross.)
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