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Picasso Masterpieces Beaten by a Toilet -Poll
 

offline mrgypsum on 2004-12-01 16:18 [#01412332]
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i guess what i am saying about the duchamp work is that it
is only concept, at least for me, i guess you start to think
differently about a toilet when it is placed up on display,
but i dont, to me it is still a toilet - if you disagree
then thats a good thing, i guess artists would appreciate
duchamp better than i would, being a non-artist, i respond
with my emotions to a piece of art, when it starts to get
scientific and metaphysical, then i can no longer keep the
beauty of the art (magic, wonder, basically pure emotion)
active, i can discuss it and keep it in the metaphysical
world, but there is no art in there.


 

offline 010101 from Vancouver (Canada) on 2004-12-01 16:48 [#01412389]
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You are missing the point entirely, what you are discussing
is "craft" not "art".


 

offline X-tomatic from ze war room on 2004-12-01 18:47 [#01412552]
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Well that doesn't come as a surprise, as that's where these
"500
leading art world figures" had their minds flushed.


 

offline r40f from qrters tea party on 2004-12-01 18:48 [#01412556]
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see all posts above yours for more information.


 

offline mrgypsum on 2004-12-01 21:22 [#01412754]
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so what are we arguing here then? craft or art you wrote
that ambiguously


 

offline Drunken Mastah from OPPERKLASSESVIN!!! (Norway) on 2004-12-02 06:30 [#01412964]
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so, then you agree with for instance hume, who thought that
there could be a "perfect judge," who knew all about art,
and in that way, you mean that art is not for everyone, but
for a select few to decide? now, THAT's bollocks! Art should
be for the public in order to fulfill its purpose (which
varies after what you believe art IS, but no-one can say
that it lacks purpose).


 

offline Drunken Mastah from OPPERKLASSESVIN!!! (Norway) on 2004-12-02 06:34 [#01412966]
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communists, fascists and individualists can still agree with
other people, can't they?! As long as there are more than a
given number of people, a majority can be found.

..and I don't think you've understood the analogy yet even
though you're reacting the way I wanted you to... you see
that the example is absurd, while agreeing that the same
goes for art. Make the connections.


 

offline xf from Australia on 2004-12-02 06:37 [#01412967]
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i piss on your art!


 

offline marlowe from Antarctica on 2004-12-02 06:39 [#01412969]
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Urinal is Anal.


 

offline xf from Australia on 2004-12-02 06:40 [#01412970]
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and on a side note, it's these kind of conversations that
illustrate how effective it is as an art piece.

it's still just a fucking toilet, though. i didn't know
they manafactured toilets like that back then, though.


 

offline Dannn_ from United Kingdom on 2004-12-02 06:40 [#01412971]
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But is it the piss that is the art, or is it the act of
pissing?


 

offline xf from Australia on 2004-12-02 06:42 [#01412972]
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the piss, i'd hope - you'd have to have a lot of piss to
stand in a museum doing that all day.


 

offline marlowe from Antarctica on 2004-12-02 06:46 [#01412975]
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Yes - Mass Murder is an interesting Art Form leading to
conversations. So is Kylie's Arse.


 

offline xf from Australia on 2004-12-02 07:02 [#01412991]
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mass murder isn't an object.

i guess you could argue the latter is, though, but i won't
go there.

(note: i'm not saying that i appreciate such 'art', purely
that it fits within the definition of it).


 

offline giginger from Milky Beans (United Kingdom) on 2004-12-02 07:06 [#01412992]
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I still think it's a toilet.


 

offline xf from Australia on 2004-12-02 07:10 [#01412997]
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you're not the only one. you can't argue that it hasn't
been effective as an art piece though; look at all the other
modern art shit that has come out since then.

ho ho, i made a funny pun.


 

offline DeadEight from vancouver (Canada) on 2004-12-02 07:42 [#01413021]
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there is more content to Duchamp's piece than people give it
credit for... just think of all the revolutionary poetry
absolutely screaming from that urinal, just sitting there in
the gallery... think of the absolute tension is must have
generated in the air... the problem here is that we have
completely abstracted ourselves from the work itself... just
talking about it really sort of undermines it in certain
ways... kind of hard to talk about the emotional effects
before you've even seen it, wouldn't you say?

Duchamp to me is an obvious choice for most influential
modern art, precisely because it absolutely explodes the
horizon of potential art... the urinal is like this black
hole sitting at the cusp of a completely new understanding
of the world in general and it all makes aesthetics a rather
trivial matter wouldn't you say?

but i mean really all of this has been said already...
that'll teach me for not checking around here just a bit
more often these days... it's true that most of the time
lately it has been dominated by attention whores who have
nothing valuable to contribute... but it still has you
people... dunnit?

Duchamp and Cage: so so so goddamned imoportant... their
fingerprints are all the fuck over the new paradigm...


 

offline fleetmouse from Horny for Truth on 2004-12-02 17:49 [#01413626]
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God it is so much fun to discuss Duchamp's urinal with
reactionary people. To this day they become outraged. Now
that's a potent work. It's the prank that keeps on pranking.



 

offline mrgypsum on 2004-12-02 22:26 [#01413775]
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i can agree with cage reference, but maybe i am just barking
up a tree i dont understand, i have never studied art ie
painting, and am only learned in music, so it was me who was
pissing out their opinion.

i hate picking a scab, but is there anyone comparable in
music to duchamp? if you think about it though, duchamps
fountain permeates all areas of art not just sculpture or
painting. i guess maybe carl stalling :)


 


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