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[Diane_Keaton]

Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
What distinguishes art from other human creations is that it's useless.

My poo is a human creation and its also useless. So I don't think uselessness is the best way to describe the distinguishing nature of art. That said, art can sometimes wrap Snoopy's house. Which puts art in a whole other category, though which one I'm not sure.

[bilmore]

Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
Your next beer will contain some H2O from Hitler's bathwater. Irony doesn't work at the molecular level.

Yeah, but I bet the concept just drives Christos bonzo!

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by Diane_Keaton
My poo is a human creation and its also useless. So I don't think uselessness is the best way to describe the distinguishing nature of art. That said, art can sometimes wrap Snoopy's house. Which puts art in a whole other category, though which one I'm not sure.

If your poo were really useless, you would not mind it staying in your body for ever and ever and ever. But, it serves a very useful function -- getting dead stuff and toxins out of your body. So it is useful!!!!!!

justsendmehomenow

[bilmore]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
But, it serves a very useful function -- getting dead stuff and toxins out of your body. So it is useful!!!!!!

Guernica arguably served a similar function, so I wonder of AG's theorem is right out?

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by bilmore
Guernica arguably served a similar function, so I wonder of AG's theorem is right out?

Didn't the FDA ban that?

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by Diane_Keaton
My poo is a human creation and its also useless.

If you were truly up on art you would realize that your poo can be art- if you were thinking it was art when making, and if you displayed it.

Oh, but you can be replaced.... http://www.speronewestwater.com/cgi-...tml?record=155

[Jean Socteau]

Originally posted by bilmore
Even better. Eight million Wal-Mart Halloween costumes partially made of Christo's art.

Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.

-- Jean Socteau

[Jean Socteau]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
If you were truly up on art you would realize that your poo can be art- if you were thinking it was art when making, and if you displayed it.

Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.

-- Jean Socteau

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally posted by bilmore
Yeah, but I bet the concept just drives Christos bonzo!

Actually, my understanding on why he would rather recycle his art than sell the individual pieces to collectors is so it can go to everyone. His has always been public art.

[bilmore]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
Actually, my understanding on why he would rather recycle his art than sell the individual pieces to collectors is so it can go to everyone. His has always been public art.

Oh, I agree - it's just that what I've read of him makes me think that his definition of "everyone" doesn't include the heathens.

[bilmore]

Originally posted by Jean Socteau
Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.

Cool. My marriage was art.

[ABBAKiss]

Originally posted by bilmore
Cool. My marriage was art.

Was?

[bilmore]

Originally posted by ABBAKiss
Was?

Sorry. Careless typing. "My wedding was art."

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally posted by bilmore
Oh, I agree - it's just that what I've read of him makes me think that his definition of "everyone" doesn't include the heathens.

I know way too many artists to believe they actually think anything they say in artist statements. Witness my friend Angelbert Metoyer, who btw, has an opening at Gallery 101 in Houston this weekend for those who are interested.

Originally posted by Diane_Keaton
My poo is a human creation and its also useless. So I don't think uselessness is the best way to describe the distinguishing nature of art. That said, art can sometimes wrap Snoopy's house. Which puts art in a whole other category, though which one I'm not sure.

What is it exactly that pisses everyone off about this? It's funded by people who have bought drawings of the project for what I would consider outrageous sums of money, so there's none of My Tax Dollars being wasted. This takes care of gripe #1 on the New York Post crib sheet to editorial writing. It's in a park, which makes the "tying up traffic" complaint one of the stupidest I have ever heard. It'll be gone by the weekend if you don't like orange.

Don't know if I'll see it or not, but I don't particularly care. This project has been worthwhile just to illustrate the knee-jerk reactions I always hear when insecure jackasses are exposed to modern art.