Re: Modern "art" breaks new ground

jsaranac wrote:


LOL. No. I'd probably feel better if I thought they were just manipulators but the fact that people would really do stuff like that chained dog (and to a lesser extent, the hanging horse) because they believe it is art upsets me a hell of a lot more (and I will admit, the government funding gets me, too).


Sometimes I truly wonder if even the "artist" really thinks it's art ... or if they are just going for the shock factor? how else to be clasified as "edgy" and to be written about than to do something so sick?

Then there's a lot of chance for a person to get a good laugh at some idiot who'll pay some huge amount of money for a canvas painted all white ... just because the buyer was too stupid to see the joke and took as gospel the art gallery owner's word ... forgetting the gallery owner and the artist are getting their jollies from the money.


LisaW


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“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear. The traitor is the plague.”
------------- Marcus Tullius Cicero
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