Yet Another Cycling Forum
Off Topic => The Pub => Arts and Entertainment => Topic started by: orienteer on 06 October, 2018, 02:05:42 pm
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Funniest thing I've heard for ages ;D
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/banksy-artwork-selfdestructs-moments-after-being-sold-at-sothebys-for-1million-a3955111.html (https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/banksy-artwork-selfdestructs-moments-after-being-sold-at-sothebys-for-1million-a3955111.html)
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Sothebys had to be in on it, Shirley? Probably the buyer, too.
Nice performance, thobut.
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Banksy is a WICKED whizz!
I did post a reference in the 'random' thread...
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It just fails to make a significant point about art-as-art v art-as-commodity. Amusing nonetheless.
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It just fails to make a significant point about art-as-art v art-as-commodity. Amusing nonetheless.
According to the article, it increases the commoditisation (although that's perhaps not strictly the term) of this particular art work. Still, I guess the KLF got there first.
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How he did it: https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/how-banksy-did-shredded-art-2082316
(doesn't really show much TBH)
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Sly bugger. If he'd shredded the whole thing it would have just been a pile of strips on the floor. Leaving half of it intact means it's still a work of art.
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Sly bugger. If he'd shredded the whole thing it would have just been a pile of strips on the floor. Leaving half of it intact means it's still a work of art.
Or he's set himself up for a career in the design department at Epson.
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Sly bugger. If he'd shredded the whole thing it would have just been a pile of strips on the floor. Leaving half of it intact means it's still a work of art.
Even the pile of strips on the floor could be "a work of art".
Duchamp. Urinal. 100+ years ago.
https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/duchamp-fountain-t07573
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Sly bugger. If he'd shredded the whole thing it would have just been a pile of strips on the floor. Leaving half of it intact means it's still a work of art.
Even the pile of strips on the floor could be "a work of art".
Duchamp. Urinal. 100+ years ago.
https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/duchamp-fountain-t07573
I expect Bankie's heard of Duchamp.
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Sly bugger. If he'd shredded the whole thing it would have just been a pile of strips on the floor. Leaving half of it intact means it's still a work of art.
Even the pile of strips on the floor could be "a work of art".
Duchamp. Urinal. 100+ years ago.
https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/duchamp-fountain-t07573
Yes, but picking them up would ruin it.
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Sly bugger. If he'd shredded the whole thing it would have just been a pile of strips on the floor. Leaving half of it intact means it's still a work of art.
Even the pile of strips on the floor could be "a work of art".
Duchamp. Urinal. 100+ years ago.
https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/duchamp-fountain-t07573
Yes, but picking them up would ruin it.
Whereas pissing on them would square the circle nicely.
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Sly bugger. If he'd shredded the whole thing it would have just been a pile of strips on the floor. Leaving half of it intact means it's still a work of art.
Even the pile of strips on the floor could be "a work of art".
Duchamp. Urinal. 100+ years ago.
https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/duchamp-fountain-t07573
Yes, but picking them up would ruin it.
Whereas pissing on them would square the circle nicely.
;D New keyboard, please! ;D