23 Replies to “That’s not Art!”

  2. I saw this on the news last night. I thought it was very funny and, well, sort of, like, artistic.

  3. According to the credo of most of my fine arts profs at Sir George Williams University [now CONCORDIA] during the mid to late sixties, [ most if not all were creative types of international artistic fame and repute] : Art is anything you can get away with.
    Dean of the faculty, while adjudicating an artists’ exhibit somewhere on the east coast, in the 60’s pinned “best in show” on a stretched and framed work. The dean’s accompanying “pomposity of verbosity” was astounding, especially when it was revealed that said work was nothing more than the cloth one artist used when he was wiping down his brushes whenever he cleaned them throughout the course of a day’s work.
    Our tax dollars at work supporting the arts in a land where the clothes-less emperor still reigns supreme.
    tj
    t.e.&o.e.

  4. According to the credo of most of my fine arts profs at Sir George Williams University [now CONCORDIA] during the mid to late sixties, [ most if not all were creative types of international artistic fame and repute] : Art is anything you can get away with.
    Dean of the faculty, while adjudicating an artists’ exhibit somewhere on the east coast, in the 60’s pinned “best in show” on a stretched and framed work. The dean’s accompanying “pomposity of verbosity” was astounding, especially when it was revealed that said work was nothing more than the cloth one artist used when he was wiping down his brushes whenever he cleaned them throughout the course of a day’s work.
    Our tax dollars at work supporting the arts in a land where the clothes-less emperor still reigns supreme.
    tj
    t.e.&o.e.

  5. According to the credo of most of my fine arts profs at Sir George Williams University [now CONCORDIA] during the mid to late sixties, [ most if not all were creative types of international artistic fame and repute] : Art is anything you can get away with.
    Dean of the faculty, while adjudicating an artists’ exhibit somewhere on the east coast, in the 60’s pinned “best in show” on a stretched and framed work. The dean’s accompanying “pomposity of verbosity” was astounding, especially when it was revealed that said work was nothing more than the cloth one artist used when he was wiping down his brushes whenever he cleaned them throughout the course of a day’s work.
    Our tax dollars at work supporting the arts in a land where the clothes-less emperor still reigns supreme.
    tj
    t.e.&o.e.

  7. Take it easy on the coffee tj. Your hand is shaking so much you’ve hit the POST button three times 😉
    Art, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder. You can sculpt elephant dung and call it art but please, please do it without taxpayer’s dollars.

  8. For France, they have the word Greve (strike)
    For Holland, its submerged with little mosque toques sticking out
    While I disagree with public funding of art, it is greatly satisfying to see the little eurocrats squirm when one of their little pets (ie. public art) turn around and bite them on the butt (particularly as it conveys such “eloquent” truth as well).

  10. “Art is communication. It doesn’t have to say the same thing to everyone. Did the piece communicate?”
    The message I get from most “modern” art, is “the artist has no talent, and little imagination”.

  11. Its quite obvious that what all this “art” says is that the government has entirely too much money and artists are WAY too good at begging.

  13. But, at least it is more tasteful than a jar of piss with a cross. Why the big European hullabaloo now !?

  14. I doubt those now screaming in fury at how their country was depicted would object to the fact that government funds were used to produce this piece; the only problem in their eyes is that the wrong artist got the job.
    But when a government doesn’t give money to support an artist, that’s censorship, right?
    My head feels like Norman in I, Mudd.

  17. It looks good on the Eurocrats. Another poke in their collectivist, elitist eye from the plucky Czechs.
    Go Vaclav Klaus!
    Go David Cerny!

  18. Much better than what was mentioned below the fold front page National Post today – you can go to the Université de Québec à Montréal, and take home a souvenir of the exhibit – “freeze-dried excrement, signed by the Belgian artist that produced it”.
    Federal funding – $30K

  19. The Czechs know how to put the FUN in FUNding public art.
    Who knew Muslims used a toilet let alone invented one!? Apparently you use your feet as toilet paper.

  20. The Denmark sculpture is in fact in the shape of the country of Denmark. If you squint, the colours may be reminiscent of the Mohammend cartoon, so perhaps it was the intention of the artist. The German sculpture does look like a warped Swastika despite the artist’s denial.

  22. Hey there Texas Canuck. You’re right. It has to be the java. And maybe a bit of the early a.m. “tremors&shakes,” as it were.
    Thanks for you gracious and thoughtful concern. Much appreciated.
    But I gotta tell you: the sixties, downtown Montreal, post-beat, segue to Beatles, Stones, Dylan, hippies, free love, Hookahs of Mateus in ice buckets, les beaux arts! WOW!!
    Sometimes. in the reveries of my encroaching senility, the memories are JUST SO DARNED VIVID!! Yum!!
    tj
    t.e.&o.e.

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