Oi Hipster. Excuse me, wtf r u doin?

[KimyReizeger]

Well...stick figures on a cave wall sure beats this.

So...whats your point? That modern artists suck more than ever?

Things like the urinal exist as a reaction to representational art and the idea that art can only be used to imitate reality.

[Kieran_imray]

Things like the urinal exist as a reaction to representational art and the idea that art can only be used to imitate reality.

I'm pretty sure things like the urinal, such as a flushing toilet, exist so that we don't shit and piss all over the floor. I could be wrong though...

[KimyReizeger]

I'm pretty sure things like the urinal, such as a flushing toilet, exist so that we don't shit and piss all over the floor. I could be wrong though...

Yes, that's its primary function, the function of which Duchamp was playing upon by sticking it in a gallery.

[IamScrooge]

[ca_gere]

This was done in the early part of last century, this lass is doing basically the same thing in 2010. It was a bold statement then, it's not now. C'mon, it's funny and shit. Loosen up. People in this thread 'get' modern art, it's not sacred.

[Guest idol_wild]

Yes, that's its primary function, the function of which Duchamp was playing upon by sticking it in a gallery.

How bold and clever.

Give the man a chocolate biscuit.

[Monster Zero]

Things like the urinal exist as a reaction to representational art and the idea that art can only be used to imitate reality.

Have you ever seen 'Paul and Pauline Calf's Video Diaries'? Steve Coogan played an art critic during intro's to the programmes where said critic tried to promote Paul Calf's video footage as works of art. It sounds just like the sort of thing that you said....

[Pierre Von Mondragon]

Still the funniest avatar on here by far.

EDIT Not the Duchamp, the dudes avatar

[Guest idol_wild]

Still the funniest avatar on here by far.

EDIT Not the Duchamp, the dudes avatar

It's ironic that it's a Les Paul that is featured. I thought those guitars were meant to be amazing for tone?

[jon]

People who diss Les Pauls tend to play strats on the bridge pick up, which is basically akin to admitting you're a rapist.

^ If that provokes a response, I'd like you all to consider it art.

[Guest idol_wild]

People who diss Les Pauls tend to play strats on the bridge pick up, which is basically akin to admitting you're a rapist.

^ If that provokes a response, I'd like you all to consider it art.

Dear Jon,

Thank you for this contribution to the website. I would very much like to throw a liberal and bountiful volume of reputation in your direction.

However, I am unable. My apologies.

Best regards,

idol_wild

[3CR816]

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar, but other times it's a big, throbbing, veiny cigar.

[Teabags]

Yes, that's its primary function, the function of which Duchamp was playing upon by sticking it in a gallery.

So basically, he was too lazy to do any real art, so he went and got a urinal, badly scrawled his name on it and made up a tale so tits like yourself would think he's a genius?

[Pierre Von Mondragon]

He was a genius, partly in that he was one of the first to realise that giving something a really snappy title could create the illusion of aesthetic content, exhibit 1- The Bride Stripped Bare by her Bachelors, Even.

Duchamps is alright really, the trick is to see him as a proto-Chris Morris provocateur, noising up both sides of any point simultaneously. Er, In hindsght.

[Fast Caz]

I'd call that " crippled kickbag conjures crass attempt at life".

[Pierre Von Mondragon]

Yeah, you got the hang of it, now go work wonders.

[Fast Caz]

Expose yourself to children

The top picture is a tram going over some arctic plains.

The second picture is a post industrial communial garden. Washing line is a dead give away.

Ofcourse however, these bullshit pictures are usually surrounded by the saying " it's not what you see in the picture. It's what you don't see". Or some bollocks like that.

I bought a new rug and I've got to say it reallys brings the room together BUT when I put a crumpled newspaper on top of it it becomes a haven for facist post op post modern pretense hipsters.

[emergency72]

[3CR816]

*sigh*

[Fast Caz]

Bill Murray is awesome. Modern art is not.

[Monster Zero]

*sigh*

Bill Murray is trapped in a clock. If only it was melting over the windowsill, Dali-esque.

[waltz]

This thread is depressing.

[Woodsinho]

Modern Art makes me want to rock out.

[Teabags]

This thread is depressing.

So we invoked a response out of you?

Score. I'm fucking reet good at art, me.

[3CR816]

Just out of curiosity, and I'm not doing this to make any kind of point, just to move this thread somewhere positive, what's everybody's favourite art work and why?

While I'm have trouble choosing my #1 BEST ART EVER #1, I really loved Ron Mueck's exhibition at the art gallery a few months back. Being around these sculptures was really uncanny and the sense of scale seemed to amplify the emotions I felt from each piece. Also, loads of his work was nude and nudity is hilarious. Especially yours, tiny!