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![[0407] New Exhibition Piece](/comics/2012-08-30-0407-new-exhibition-piece.png "[0407] New Exhibition Piece")
- Sandra: ?
- Plate: Bicycle Wheel – Marcel Duchamp
- Sandra: ??
- Plate: Chair and Object – Manfred Pernice
- Sandra: ? ? ??
- Sandra: Today I learned that modern art is indistinguishable from a janitor who’s fixing the air conditioner.
- Larisa: Are you sure it wasn’t a piece of performance art?
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It could be performance art. “man making people comfortable” or if it broke worse: “man’s inhumanity to man”
How about the blank canvas featured in the Smithsonian XD
Is she suggesting that a janitor fixing an air conditioner is not art?
This made me laugh. Yeah, modern art isn’t very artistic. You can put words to just about anything, and if you do it the right way, it will sound like art. Even gaming can sound like an art. In minecraft’s case, it IS an art.
Reminds me of that time when someone held an art competition, inviting entrants to create “a chair”. A number of big names entered. When the judging was over, they found that they couldn’t identify the creator of the winning piece, and after a lot of to-ing and fro-ing, the janitor finally came forward and admitted that he was responsible. He’d seen all these strange and scrappy sculptures being brought in through the freight entrance, and had cobbled together something from the junk and rubbish that he had lying around, and slipped it in with the real exhibits as a joke.
Catchy.
In fact ART does not exist, Its an ideology that started with the Burgois, ancient societies like the Greeks didnt have our concept of Art and in the middle ages and reinacensse ‘art’ was submited to god. To say art was to say literature, dance, arquitecture, etc.
In those times even Justin Bieber could be seen as Art, not GOOD art but art anyways. Imagine a dish, for you is just food, but for the selected few Its “coucine”.
Many people have tried to think of art as an spiritual activity or as a revolutionary excercise. Truth is that only capitalist societies produce art, just ask what is the price of a painting.
In other societies the “Artist” is just another work. There is evidence that before there were Nobles that suported artist with all they need, art was just an activity “something you do”, a higher activity but not something else. The credit was took by the muses or whatever, the fact is that the Artist was not a special figure. A farmer could be a creator.
And art was linked to religion, so Art was “free”.
Also Art is not an aesthetic category, is just a label. If something “non-art” gets too good then people would claim is art and alienate the general public. If the general public produce something of quality they would brand It “low Art” and pretend is like a copy of their “high art”.
I say that a TS Elliot can be as entretaining as a hollywood movie and that a hollywood movie can move you like a Elliot. So, either everything is art or nothing is
@ Landbark: Who was that? Forrest Gump?
As it’s been said…
“Art is in the eye of the beholder”.
Modern art seems to be about trying to find the edge of what defines art, but somehow that edge just keeps moving. Now no one can tell what is art and what isn’t because the line has blurred too much.
This is the funniest last frame I have seen for a while (^w^) Sandra’s comment, Larisa’s comment, and her trying to figure out that art-piece are all priceless….
@ Bill:
When I find a beholder I kill it they have good loot on em for all that they are giant floating eyeballs
I’m going with, this was performance art.
@ Petah-Petah:
No, but it was Art who fixed the air conditioner!
It clearly can’t be a performance. The janitor is neither ostentatiously léger nor effete enough.
One of both is a hard requirement for an artistic performance; he could also try to pull them both, which would render the performance educational.
But he simply acts unadulterated WHITHOUT MAKING A POINT OF IT. Therefore, he is unambiguously just a working stiff, doing his job.
@ Petah-Petah:
Only if the parts are no longer available, or it’s one of those units with a persistent, untraceable fault. >:=)>
@ Bill:
If the beholder used its stone to flesh ray eye, and the victim failed save vs petrification, they’d end up with a life-sized statue. It would be far to much of a representative piece to interest the modern art crowd… unless the beholder made liberal use of its charm person eye. So yes, I suppose art would be in the eye of the beholder, if the beholder were so minded.
@ Gerardo:
That is a very interesting perspective. I’ve never thought of it this way.
I’m somewhat curious on what Lisa would think about Banksy’s art. His Meusium work I mean, such as his “caveman drawings”
@ Landbark:
Perhaps that is for the best. Look at what the last fifty years have brought us because of people who “know art”.
just saying that…I think there is a bug here….I can’t make a comment unless I go back to he previous comic and then go to the last one…..
This reminds me of those art critics gushing over a painting and offering thousands of dollars for it only to find out it was made by an elephant or a toddler!
@ Bill:
Now I can’t help seeing this: http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20090719181216/familyguy/images/thumb/6/63/Sandy_Duncan.jpg/300px-Sandy_Duncan.jpg
That was mean, Larisa! …and funny as all get-out! 🙂 🙂 🙂
No, no, no Sandra… You’ve got it all wrong, only stuff with nameplates are called ‘art’, the rest is rubbish.
1 Missing-piece art (needs a Sleeping Beauty spike by the wheel)
2 Missing Person Art (they’re ashes in the desk)
3 Practial Art (cause who’s going to an art display where the thermostat isn’t working?)
@ Gerardo:
I’ll take you more seriously when you learn how to spell bourgeois and cuisine correctly and stop randomly capitalising words.
Art is in the eye of the beholder… ^^
fun fact, that first piece of art is know as “rouselle” due to the fact that marcel duchamp’s good friend and top inspiration had the last name of rouselle, the french words for wheel is roue and the french word for stool is selle, hence sticking them together made rouselle!!, I got to see it when they had an exhibition in ottawa, ontario
@ Solarn:
And I will accept your critisism when you learn to remember the proper gramar for 3 lenguages.
And If you think I was capitalising words at random then you werent paying atention. In fact my only mistake was to write “ART” instead of “Art”. And in absence of any underline I had to write good with capital letters to make my point.
So I will request that you read It again, and this time actually put a little effort. Some one once said to me that “thinking hurts” but Its worth It.
Im only saying that Art is a label, like the saying “If nobody like It, It must be art”. The whole existence of “high Art” and “low art” tell us the whole thing is elitist. The lines that defined art has been blured so much that the concept has lost Its meaning.
When society start thinking about a 3 minute song or a Comicbook as “Art” then we would have a new different concept that the one we had in the XXth century. Modern Art just exposed the elitism in art.
Still there is a lot of snobism, the hipster movement for example is the cliche of elitism. For me, there is no way to judge a person for what he or she likes, cause even a Delacroix is still just a painting. There are more important things in life.
Why everybody just asume English is everyone´s lenguage? Soon we will be back in the middle ages, English as new Latin and everybody writing better in English than in their own lenguages.
that’s a very good point from Larisa
Or from an empty wall(been there, done that).
i remember a story about how some workers at an art exhibit mistook a “painting” for an “old dropcloth” and threw it in the trash! the artist recovered it, while ranting and raving how it was inconcieveable (to him, anyway) that anyone could not realize that this collection of random splashes of random colors was “priceless” art! to this day, every worker at that art exhibit calls that piece “the drop cloth”!
I mean, at least the way the bicycle wheel was set up was [i]sort[/i] of artistic? In a very convoluted sort of way?
If I got one penny for every reader tilting their head.
@ Greenwood Goat:
wow. janitor makes art to own art. why does it have to be the janny anyway? can’t it be some random outsider? must the janitor antagonise the space he is supposed to care for? can he not coexist with it?