lots of modern art destroyed

[AlanG]

news

lots of pretentious modern art by twats such as Damien Hirst and Tracey Emin has been destroyed in a fire at Saatchi's warehouse

let the celebration begin, the average level of culture in Britain has just risen about 4 points!

*breaks out the champagne*

[kj]

i saw this on the morning news today. apparently it was just some of the stuff that couldnt get space in the display galleries, so it wasnt the cream of the collection, however some of it was still considered fairly important. I cant believe how some paintings just a few years old can be worth so much, some of em were apparently worth millions.

[I_got_a_mohawk]

Originally Posted by Alan G

news

lots of pretentious modern art by twats such as Damien Hirst and Tracey Emin has been destroyed in a fire at Saatchi's warehouse

let the celebration begin, the average level of culture in Britain has just risen about 4 points!

*breaks out the champagne*

so . . . that guff gets classed as art these days . . . hmm, nah . . .

[glittery_cath]

I'm sure they're worth so much coz Saatchi catches artists who are recent graduates, elevates their status by simply buying and showing their work, then buys their entire body of work and everything they make after that. Or something like that. Bah, I'm tired. But I know I'd be gutted if something like that happened to my work. Not all of the work Saatchi owns is faddy post-mordern crap though. I like Jenny Saville's work for example.

[spam_javelin]

Apparently this piece of priceless art got burnt too:

Someone please correct me but... Thats just a tent that some bint put photos in!
Im sure you could get a better tent from Argos for forty quid!

Art? Fuck off!

[Thee Alex]

Having studied art this thread makes me sad.

[Afro Joe]

i was wondering why my dad was laughing when the news was on.

[Thee Alex]

Can I ask what is remotely funny or to be celebrated about art being destroyed?

Are people really so culturally retarded that they cheer when something they don't understand is burned?

[Dashingmajor]

Originally Posted by Thee Alex

Can I ask what is remotely funny or to be celebrated about art being destroyed?

Are people really so culturally retarded that they cheer when something they don't understand is burned?

I too think it is sad to laugh at art being destroyed. But you can see why some people are cynical about modern art. Art, that cannot be explained by the artist, is that art? And when someone sees something that they are told is art, they mat be less inclined to like it if it looks like (or is) a big pile of shit.

I confess to not knowing anything about art, but made the effort to go to the DCA when I could so I could look at it, and make up my own mind. I didn't want to be told what is art. Some of it I didn't like, but there was nothing that actually made me think "how can that be classed as art".
The first art exhibition I went to was Fiona Banners at the DCA. This one had the piece "Arse woman in wonderland", that our 'culture' secretary said was dreadful. I saw it before he'd said this, and I actually quite liked it. I saw the point in it (or thought I did).

Suffice to say, I was sceptical about a lot of modern art, but you have to make the effort to go and discover it for yourself, and fall prey to being told what constitutes art. The art establishment, like a lot of things, has intense snobbery in it, making it hard for those not privy to the inside processes to appreciate it and form reasoned opinions of it.

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[Johnny]

There's nothing wrong with art. But modern art is bullshit.
Anyone has the talent to make modern "art"

*edit* In my opinion

[Rebelius]

if my name was the name of a famous modern artist, i could take a photo of my foot and sell it for £1000000000000. That doesn't make it art!



Seriously alex, do you think a 2-man tent with a load of numbers stuck to it (or painted on, i can't tell) by someone famous is worth £200????

[Afro Joe]

Originally Posted by Rebelius

Seriously alex, do you think a 2-man tent with a load of numbers stuck to it (or painted on, i can't tell) by someone famous is worth £200????

come on man, it's more than that. you can clearly see that the tent symbolises your life and death and your whole existence and how in many aspects life is very much like a tent with stuff on it.

yeah, i do think its a shame that people's work is destroyed. its obviously sad when something that someone puts effort into is ruined, but i'm quite obviously not intelligent enough to understand what it means sadly.

[Rebelius]

in that case, modern art is not in the mind of the creator but in the mind of the buyer. if this is the case then my opinion is that that's dumb as fuck