Modern art and the German dustman

[ozzy72]

I think German dustman are BRILLIANT!

To the dustmen of Frankfurt, they were a mess that needed to be cleared from the streets of their spotless city. The yellow plastic sheets were swiftly scooped up, crushed and burned.
But the diligence of the rubbish collectors was little consolation to the city's prestigious art academy, which is now ruing the loss of an important work.
Unknown to the binmen, the sheets were part of a city-wide exhibition of modern sculpture by Michael Beutler, a graduate of Frankfurt's St

[ATI_7500]

Modern art? Modern crap would be more suitable...

[ozzy72]

Exactly Bj

[jordonj]

You gotta be kidding...!

[Omag 2.0]

Who can blame those poor guys! Modern "sculptures" can be a big pile of junk nowadays...

in my country an "artist" once claimed his following idea to be art: you take a neo-classic building and wrap ( quite expensive) ham on the collums until the collums dissappear. Than you put some plasticwrap on the meat and leave it there for a couple of weeks. And it was summer by the way! Can you imagine the smell and the flies? That isn't art to me...

Another project in our capital however, I liked! They placed dozens of life-sized plastic cows around the city, decorated by several artists. This was cool in an odd way.

Oh well, you know what they say about taste...  ;)

[ozzy72]

Oh well, you know what they say about taste

Yup, modern artists don't have any

[Hagar]

Just shows what a load of rubbish most of this "modern art" is.

[Romulus111VADT]

Here I thought the US had a monopoly on weird modern artists. Seems most live either in San Francisco (won't elaborate any further ) or in New York City. One of the more brilliant ones from the mid-west tried to find a niche making art from cow manure....talk about crap art!  ;D

[Felix/FFDS]

Another project in our capital however, I liked! They placed dozens of life-sized plastic cows around the city, decorated by several artists. This was cool in an odd way.

I've seen displays of this sort, highly publicized, in which, at the end of the exhibition, the sculptures in question are sold to the sponsors with the proceeds going to charity.

But - wrapping ham around columns, and then thinking of people dying of hunger... where's the "art"  in that?

[Hagar]

I still think the empty room with intermittent flashing lights in the Tate Modern gallery takes the biscuit. He got

[Chris_F]

There's one piece of classical music whereby the performer enters the concert hall, props the lid on a paino, then sits for some four plus minutes playing nothing.  "Modern art" is simply an attack on art itself.  It seeks to blur the line between art and just about everything else.  The effect is to make the term "art" meaningless and dilute the value of art in general.

[Romulus111VADT]

[quote]One of the more brilliant ones from the mid-west tried to find a niche making art from cow manure....talk about crap art!

[TacitBlue]

A freind of mine owned an art gallery, and when I saw what the modern "art" was selling for, I decided to get in on the action. I stacked 5 large woden boxes painted black that were used as display tables. arranged them in a sort of pattern, and slapped a $500 price tag on it. needless to say, nobody bought it. The gallery has since closed, and up untill last month, my "sculpture" was still in the window.

[Archer <]-]

"All they are interested in is manufacturers of gimmicks like Creed, who made his name with a ball of BluTac and a sheet of A4 paper crumpled into a ball."

LOL that flashing light exhibit is hliarious too
Why do people consider that art?! I just dont get it