Posh parents defend their child scrambling over Tate Modern scultpture

[Johnny Canuck3]

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The Moon Face Christ: one lady's interpretation.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

computer is fucking up.

 

[Crispy]

also I've realised that the guy who did this also went on to produce the cauldron for the Olympic ceremony, so all is forgiven, everything that went into getting him to the point where he could do that was money well spent IMO.

Heatherwick is a design genius IMO, but he's not opposed to a little direct plagiarism now and then:
http://www.dezeen.com/2013/06/20/th...-copying-claims-over-olympic-cauldron-design/
(in this case, the lady doth protest too much)

 

[white rabbit]

Art galleries are like modern churches, dedicated to the consecration of art in all their secular glory. Whether those work are any good is is a little beyond the point and now that defacing public art as a protest is past it's sell-by date both as protest and as legitimate argument. The last vaguely interesting protest was when Yuan Cai and Lian Jun Xi had a pillow fight on Emin's bed. The justification of legitimacy as a sort of anti-establishment stance mike them look like dicks who probably think their offspring deposit golden turds.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Art galleries are like modern churches, dedicated to the consecration of art in all their secular glory. Whether those work are any good is is a little beyond the point and now that defacing public art as a protest is past it's sell-by date both as protest and as legitimate argument. The last vaguely interesting protest was when Yuan Cai and Lian Jun Xi had a pillow fight on Emin's bed. The justification of legitimacy as a sort of anti-establishment stance mike them look like dicks who probably think their offspring deposit golden turds.

This talk sounds drug-fuelled; but it has a mildly stimulating effect.

 

[phildwyer]

This talk sounds drug-fuelled; but it has a mildly stimulating effect.

Works as a downer on me.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Works as a downer on me.

Think of white rabbit sitting there pounding it out in his tightey whiteys.

 

[J Ed]

Replace the Tate's 'modern art' with pictures of cute cats and dogs.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Bourgeois art is poison to the masses.

 

[J Ed]

Much better

 

[butchersapron]

Bourgeois art is poison to the masses.

That's the destruction of decadent art - much of it anti-bourgeois.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

That's the destruction of decadent art - much of it anti-bourgeois.

I always get those words mixed up.

 

[Greebo]

Think of white rabbit sitting there pounding it out in his tightey whiteys.

Thank you, I'd rather not.

 

[goldenecitrone]

entartete Kunst. Degenerate art.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Nah.

 

[goldenecitrone]

Nah.

Over 5,000 works were seized, including 1,052 by Nolde, 759 by Heckel, 639 by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and 508 by Max Beckmann, as well as smaller numbers of works by such artists as Alexander Archipenko, Marc Chagall, James Ensor, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso and Vincent van Gogh.[26] TheEntartete Kunst exhibit, featuring over 650 paintings, sculptures, prints, and books from the collections of thirty two German museums, premiered inMunich on July 19, 1937 and remained on view until November 30 before travelling to eleven other cities in Germany and Austria.

I wonder what it was about these fantastic artists that really pissed off famously shite artist Adolf Hitler?

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

I wonder what it was about these fantastic artists that really pissed off famously shite artist Adolf Hitler?

Maybe if you looked back far enough, they had Jewish blood.

 

[Orang Utan]

personally I reckon the kid had it right - since when was a set of shelves considered to be art?

Really? Did you really say that? Fucksake, this place is worse than the Mail for pigheaded shite like that sometimes.
Clearly an awful family, but I don't think the kids did anything wrong. Has anyone checked with the artist? He probably thinks it's a hoot.

 

[andysays]

Really? Did you really say that? Fucksake, this place is worse than the Mail for pigheaded shite like that sometimes.
Clearly an awful family, but I don't think the kids did anything wrong. Has anyone checked with the artist? He probably thinks it's a hoot.

Donald Judd was unavailable for comment (he stopped giving a hoot about anything almost 20 years ago)

 

[Orang Utan]

Donald Judd was unavailable for comment (he stopped giving a hoot about anything almost 20 years ago)

I thought it was Martin Creed. Oops.

 

[friendofdorothy]

personally I reckon the kid had it right - since when was a set of shelves considered to be art?

I've always liked Donald Judds work. Just because you don't appreciate it doesn't mean its not art. Hope they didn't damage it.

 

[SaskiaJayne]

Good job she didn't climb on a Hirst & fall in the formaldehyde.

 

[butchersapron]

Art my anus. These last 19th century pages have been hilarious.

 

[goldenecitrone]

Art my anus.

And the winner of next year's Turner Prize isn't...

 

[butchersapron]

And the winner of next year's Turner Prize isn't...

15 seconds. Yep. Things going well.

 

[teqniq]

Who knows where the time goes.This was them just 6 short years ago.

They look like they might be kinda okay people in this pic wtf happened in between? He looks all kinds of haggard and she looks like the society queen from hell. As for their kids.... actually if you dressed them all in Victorian clothes in the first pic...

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

I wonder what it was about these fantastic artists that really pissed off famously shite artist Adolf Hitler?

Hitler was not even that bad at painting etc.

Just think how much grief could have been saved if his WW1 army buddies had a whip-round, and gave him enough money to move to Tahiti and paint like Paul Gauguin?

 

[UrbaneFox]

There's probably a straight-to-DVD film to be made of that. Bruno Ganz was unavailable for comment.

 

[SpookyFrank]

I've always liked Donald Judds work. Just because you don't appreciate it doesn't mean its not art. Hope they didn't damage it.

On the other hand, just because it's in the Tate Modern doesn't mean it's any good.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

There's probably a straight-to-DVD film to be made of that. Bruno Ganz was unavailable for comment.

"All right, contestant! It's time to choose: Door A; or Door B?"