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Post by sweetpea on Sept 29, 2016 13:39:27 GMT
Now I appreciate I am not exactly an arty farty type but these recipients of the turner prize over recent years have just consolidated my opinion that the world has really gone mad. (Well certainly the ART world)
What a load of pretentious Ratner's jewelry (CR*P)
Must be a lot of rich gullible people out there.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 29, 2016 15:53:52 GMT
Call me an uneducated heathen but I just don't get this conceptual art stuff. They went to art college for 3 years to create this rubbish? A pile of bricks, an unmade bed, a giant bum? Like the emperors new clothes, they say it's art darling and charge thousands to some idiot. Like sweetpea I don't buy into this claptrap. I'm entering 3 meat pies in a cardboard box with a stuffed parrot on top next year, so very now.
Gerald Ratner was an honest man in my books, called his jewellery crap even though it ruined him.
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Post by daitheplant on Sept 29, 2016 19:28:59 GMT
I studied art in school, and the dross that is up for the Turner prize is NOT art. It is, as usual, obscene.
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Post by grindle on Sept 30, 2016 6:35:23 GMT
Nothing will make me say it's art, just a load of rubbish, but sheep will always follow each other  The same goes for conceptual gardening, are we really supposed to know, I've got a pile of rubbish outside maybe if I give it a fancy name I could enter  |
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Post by Bess on Oct 1, 2016 22:55:39 GMT
Has the Turner Prize been handed out this year yet? I saw the shortlisted 'art' and was rather hoping the toy train won  I agree that it's crackers. I'm a traditional artist myself, but I only picked it up in my mid-twenties after being totally written off taking art lessons at school. I tried to do what the art teacher said was art  and concluded I was useless as I drew things that looked like what I was drawing, rather than 'interpreting' them! Thankfully painfully 'modern' art seems generally confined to art college and celebrity culture - most people still want a half recognisable drawing/painting, not an 'installation!' |
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Post by roofgardener on Oct 2, 2016 12:30:20 GMT
I have to agree.
Consider modern architecture (OK, a slight deviation from the thread... ). How many of these 'modern architects' live in their own creation ? I can't help but think that most of them live in Georgian - or even Elizabethan - period houses ?
As for the Turner Prize; it is just the Art World talking to the Art World, for the most part. I have to wonder wether the winning artists suvive the test of time ?
None of this is new, however. Back in the 70's John Lennon and Yoko Ono had a "concept art" exhibition. Some art students thought it shallow and ridiculous, and sent him a rusty bicyle to exhibit as an act of derision and sarcasm.
He immediately put it on display !
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Post by Rosie on Oct 2, 2016 18:16:46 GMT
BIG waste of money!!
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Post by Deleted on Dec 5, 2016 22:26:07 GMT
Well here's this years effort. Could have been knocked together by class 1B at the local primary school. A lovely caterpillar! I wonder if its too late in life for me to start a career in conceptual art?  |
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Post by Rosie on Dec 6, 2016 10:46:00 GMT
I prefer your idea with the meat pies @davidv
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Post by Deleted on Dec 6, 2016 12:28:44 GMT
Off to the shops as we speak Rosie, I already have the stuffed parrot and a cardboard box  |
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Post by daitheplant on Dec 6, 2016 19:47:18 GMT
I can supply the unmade bed.  |
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Post by daitheplant on Dec 7, 2016 20:31:38 GMT
How about a Garden Friends entry next year? Who is the most artistic among us?
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Post by Bess on Dec 7, 2016 23:17:21 GMT
Well, I'm not sure you need to be artistic, as such. You just need to have VISION!!!
That 'caterpillar' is apparently 'poetical puzzling,' 'intellectually rigorous' and 'it often suggests meaning, but those meanings are all in flux somehow.' According to a couple of reviews I read.
I reckon I could be an art critic as well as an modern artist - you just need to stick words randomly together instead of bits of rubbish.
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Post by sweetpea on Dec 7, 2016 23:38:33 GMT
Well, I'm not sure you need to be artistic, as such. You just need to have VISION!!! That 'caterpillar' is apparently 'poetical puzzling,' 'intellectually rigorous' and 'it often suggests meaning, but those meanings are all in flux somehow.' According to a couple of reviews I read. I reckon I could be an art critic as well as an modern artist - you just need to stick words randomly together instead of bits of rubbish. Rose tinted glass perhaps |
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Post by daitheplant on Dec 10, 2016 19:51:53 GMT
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The same goes for conceptual gardening, are we really supposed to know, I've got a pile of rubbish outside maybe if I give it a fancy name I could enter 
I agree that it's crackers. I'm a traditional artist myself, but I only picked it up in my mid-twenties after being totally written off taking art lessons at school. I tried to do what the art teacher said was art 
and concluded I was useless as I drew things that looked like what I was drawing, rather than 'interpreting' them! 
