Nude models as "please touch" exhibit

[MickeyLee]

more shocking than nudity as part of an instillation are the assholes who can't keep their hands off. well... for true.. is not that shocking at all. :irked:

i'm guessing the whole thing is more about the folks observing than the folks posing.
pretty damn nifty.

 

[Mercurygirl]

I hate performance art that seems inherrently stupid

Agreed. Since my parents didn't mind throwing away money on an art degree even though I have no artistic skills whatsoever, just wanted to hang out in cafes, drink coffee, smoke cigarettes, do bong hits and brood, erm, why don't you guys stand here naked, we'll call it art instead of what it is, unimaginative exhibitionism, I can then call myself an artist, the art community can call me a genius even though I'm creatively unoriginal and boring. Ugh.

The art world is so full of itself sometimes you just can't help but want to vomit ... it wouldn't shock me if they'd consider that art too.

 

[MickeyLee]

Agreed. Since my parents didn't mind throwing away money on an art degree even though I have no artistic skills whatsoever, just wanted to hang out in cafes, drink coffee, smoke cigarettes, do bong hits and brood, erm, why don't you guys stand here naked, we'll call it art instead of what it is, unimaginative exhibitionism, I can then call myself an artist, the art community can call me a genius even though I'm creatively unoriginal and boring. Ugh.

The art world is so full of itself sometimes you just can't help but want to vomit ... it wouldn't shock me if they'd consider that art too.

1. getting an art degree requires a bit more than sitting in cafes, smoking bong hits or other substances and brooding.

2. just cuz you like insulting yourself/your talent please don't insult other folks who work hard and really put their hearts into art school/careers.

 

[Mercurygirl]

1. getting an art degree requires a bit more than sitting in cafes, smoking bong hits or other substances and brooding.

2. just cuz you like insulting yourself/your talent please don't insult other folks who work hard and really put their hearts into art school/careers.

1. I never insulted myself, I'm not an art student nor do I consider myself to be an artist.

2. I was speaking of the so called art found in this thread in particular and I stand by my statement. I find it ridiculous and far from having any artistic merit.

3. You can't learn to be an artist, either you have the talent or you don't. The same is true for people who take writing classes. Sorry, no teacher or class or amount of money thrown away at trying to become one will make a difference. You may learn technique but the gift that separates the academic from the true artist is found within.

4. It's painfully obvious you are or were an art student. If I insulted you I apologize. I don't think all artist, art students, art, is bad. Again I was speaking of the art found here and alluding to other types of art/artist that the art community falls over itself to call genius when I personally feel it's nothing more than pretentious crap. That's my opinion, I'm entitled to it. You don't like that? Think I should jump on the sheep train and play hip to art that I find to be lacking skill, originality, creativeness, I'm not going to do that. I like to decide for myself what is or isn't art. I refuse fall into line behind a gang of intellectual fatheads who believe they determine what art is for the rest of us.

 

[MickeyLee]

4. It's painfully obvious you are or were an art student. If I insulted you I apologize. I don't think all artist, art students, art, is bad. Again I was speaking of the art found here and alluding to other types of art/artist that the art community falls over itself to call genius when I personally feel it's nothing more than pretentious crap. That's my opinion, I'm entitled to it. You don't like that? Think I should jump on the sheep train and play hip to art that I find to be lacking skill, originality, creativeness, I'm not going to do that. I like to decide for myself what is or isn't art. I refuse fall into line behind a gang of intellectual fatheads who believe they determine what art is for the rest of us.

 

[Mercurygirl]

You have to read the whole post and not pick and choose. I'm not the one determining it for you, you do that for yourself, I'm determining it for me. Get it? This is my opinion of the shit art found in this thread. Are you a bitter failed artist or something? Seriously, what do you care what I think of a particular brand of art? Why is it so important to you that I like this garbage?

Also, is it through redundancy you able to grasp things?

 

[MickeyLee]

curiosity sake..... did ya visit MoMA during the "up with nekkid people" installation's run?

 

[Mercurygirl]

Did you?

Did I really need to see every naked person standing about to understand that it's not my cup of tea? No. It's like I don't need to taste every brand of tofu to know I think it taste like snot. Sorry not wasting a dime or time finding out something I already knew going in to hang out with a bunch of art world voyeurs and exhibitionist as they re-enacting a performance art that has been done countless times throughout history. It's the most unoriginal load of pretentious art world gas I can think of, bores the life out of me. Let me guess, you did go and you thought it was, "fabulous" and "groundbreaking," the artist a, "gift to the art world, a genius."

Look, I don't know why you're so hurt and bent out of shape because I refuse to fall for this silly nude performance art bullshit? That you're unable to read into enormous sarcasm of my original post and have taken it to heart.

But just because your parents wasted their 'trip to Europe' money on sending you off to a paintbox school and your finger-paint roadkill exhibit was less than an event your senior year. That you ended up back home living in the basement, eating them out of house, skimming dad's change jar for cigarette money and complaining that your laundry was folded in a way that gives unwanted symmetry to the universe just like your post-hippy 'Painting by Anus' teacher had taught you one afternoon while the class huffed glue and pulled blades of grass from the lawn outside the student union and listened to him recite Siddhartha as he squeezed acrylic azure paint out his ass onto a canvas. (breathe) This all doesn't mean you have to get uptight about some stranger over the internet who doesn't agree with your idea of what art is. 'Subjectivity', look it up.

Now go out and find a job, save your money, go back to school and get a real degree.

I feel compelled at this point to inform you that, yes, if you hadn't noticed this is more sarcasm.

 

[MickeyLee]

Did you?

Did I really need to see every naked person standing about to understand that it's not my cup of tea? No. It's like I don't need to taste every brand of tofu to know I think it taste like snot. Sorry not wasting a dime or time finding out something I already knew going in to hang out with a bunch of art world voyeurs and exhibitionist as they re-enacting a performance art that has been done countless times throughout history. It's the most unoriginal load of pretentious art world gas I can think of, bores the life out of me. Let me guess, you did go and you thought it was, "fabulous" and "groundbreaking," the artist a, "gift to the art world, a genius."

Look, I don't know why you're so hurt and bent out of shape because I refuse to fall for this silly nude performance art bullshit? That you're unable to read into enormous sarcasm of my original post and have taken it to heart.

But just because your parents wasted their 'trip to Europe' money on sending you off to a paintbox school and your finger-paint roadkill exhibit was less than an event your senior year. That you ended up back home living in the basement, eating them out of house, skimming dad's change jar for cigarette money and complaining that your laundry was folded in a way that gives unwanted symmetry to the universe just like your post-hippy 'Painting by Anus' teacher had taught you one afternoon while the class huffed glue and pulled blades of grass from the lawn outside the student union and listened to him recite Siddhartha as he squeezed acrylic azure paint out his ass onto a canvas. (breathe) This all doesn't mean you have to get uptight about some stranger over the internet who doesn't agree with your idea of what art is. 'Subjectivity', look it up.

Now go out and find a job, save your money, go back to school and get a real degree.

I feel compelled at this point to inform you that, yes, if you hadn't noticed this is more sarcasm.

not hurt or bent, or personally slighted in any fashion. my grumble is not about/with you, more an attitude/way of thinking you're parroting. i really don't understand the epic panty-twist ya have happening here.

i do understand that ya like making assumptions and personal attacks. cool. ya still blowing it out ya ass on an event you have no personal experience with. so, yeah.. for what it's worth and all. :smile:

did ya really have to go there on tofu? tofu is an innocent bystander :frown: seasoning and preparation is where the magic of tofu lives. so not fair to judge it on its ownsome *pets tofu* :frown1:

randomly.. you don't even see whatch'ya doing up there.. do ya?

 

[Hand_Solo]

Just like an artist to defend tofu. I used to get these delicious little tofu sandwiches on toasted wheat bread with tomato, lettuce, and a bit of miso paste and mustard. They were divine. Of course I hated them because art is a lie, and not even a very convincing one.

 

[MickeyLee]

Just like an artist to defend tofu. I used to get these delicious little tofu sandwiches on toasted wheat bread with tomato, lettuce, and a bit of miso paste and mustard. They were divine. Of course I hated them because art is a lie, and not even a very convincing one.

i thought cake was the lie?



*nibbles Mr. Solo's sammich* tofu + ramen noodle = artist chow.

true facts.

 

[Hand_Solo]

Whoa! Careful with that ramen shit. It's worse than absinthe. It's a culinary roach motel for artists. Vincent van Gogh was totally hopped up on ramen when he sliced his ear off, and I hear Artaud was eating almost a case a day when he finally died.