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Editor: Are Conceptual Artists actually artists???
Is a unmade bed or lights going on and off in a room, or a dead shark, or artists that paint cartoon heads on famous paintings. (The Camel guy in China), Or, artists that don't even paint there own works but hire others, to choose the colors and paint Should these people be considered artists at all???? Jeff Kloons, of 3 basketballs in water fame claims that folks "arn't born with talent that's (just) some abstract thing. It's all about being aable to have vision". Koons was a stockbroker before he stated doing art for big bucks. IMHO, they are PSEUDO artitsts all of them couldn't even draw a straight line. Sorry but if claim to be a artist you must have artist skills. Like drawing a straight line. Can you imagine John Lennon saying, "heck, its benarth my dignity to sing and play my songs. I wrote half of the song and that should be enough. Someone else should finish it and sing my songs add their own music to my words. Then Lennon would claim credit for the song and music. This is rediculous. |
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Morley Safer's infamous 1993 art story on 60 minutes
modern art pictures and selling them for thousands of dollars. CBS news exposed her work as being assisted by her father
and the owner still paid and resold it for more
No art skill required. At least its not a portrait of the back of the head.
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what is art??? author unkown.
Of course, today, anyone who picks up a pencil or a brush can call one's self an artist. Forget the basics of drawing. Hockney's message, whether he meant it or not, is that if you want to draw "realistically," tracing is good enough. But why draw at all? With an artist's statement, anything is art: an unmade bed with stained sheets, used condoms, empty vodka bottles, etc. (My Bed by Tracy Emin, sold to Charles Saatchi for £150,000), an empty room with lights turning on and off (The Lights Going On and Off by Martin Creed, the £20,000 Turner Prize winner in 2001), or a sealed container of an artist's personal "waste production" (a popular museum purchase). Sorry, but only clichés will do here: "art is in the eye of the beholder", and "to each his own", whether you are the artist or the viewer. Just do not ask me to bow down and worship work I do not respect, or does not excite me. And do not expect me to stop doing all my work freehand. It would take far longer to draw with the hassle of tracing and the results would be far poorer. Besides, what satisfaction would I receive from tracing anything, when drawing gives me such joy and the rewards are self-evident. |
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News of the Weird has long reported on gallery
patrons' inability to distinguish "abstract
impressionist" works by human artists (even by
masters) from the scribbles drawn by toddlers
-- and even animals.
To attempt to add sophistication to the topic, a museum at University College London recently opened a comparative installation of "works" from an elephant and several kinds of apes, leading the museum manager to observe that "art produced by apes is a lot more creative." The elephant, with brushes affixed to its trunk, "is not deliberately doing anything" when it stomps or swirls the paint around on the canvas, but ape art is "much freer" and "expressive" -- "almost indistinguishable from abstract art by humans ...." But, he added sheepishly, "Whether this is actually art is the big question." [Camden New Journal (London), 2-2-2012] |
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"The latest exhibition by New York artist Richard Prince is raising ethical questions in the art world. The reason? He's selling canvases that feature other people's Instagram photos. "New Portraits," first exhibited at the Gagosian Gallery in New York last year, features portraits of subjects that were not shot by Prince himself. Rather, they are screenshots of images other people have uploaded to Instagram. Prince has added his own comment below those already there, and printed the entire work on large canvasses. The artworks are now selling in New York this weekend for around $100,000 (£64,000) each, Gothamist reports. One subject of the photos, DoeDeere, confirmed on Instagram that Prince did not seek permission before re-purposing one of her images. She posted on Instagram: "yes, my portrait is currently displayed at the Frieze Gallery in NYC. Yes, it's just a screenshot (not a painting). No, I did not give my permission and yes, the controversial artist Richard Prince put it up anyway." She said the canvass featuring her portrait sold for $90,000 (£57,500)." Is this art? Can prince even call himself a artist? |
Conceptual Art, Installation, and Perceptual art
1917 Fountain, a urinal by Dada by Duchamps
There are 8 replicas made by Duchamps in 1964
1987
Most famous of these is "Piss Christ" by Andres Serrano
Which is a photograph of a plastic crucifix submerged in
a glass of the artist's own urine. This caused great
controversy when first exhibited. The work was sold for
$277,000 in 1999, which was far beyond the estimated
$20,000 – $30,000.
2006 Is Damien Hirst's $8 million for a dead shark
embalmed in a tank of formaldehyde art?
The First shark rotted away
2007 Or, is Damien Hirst's diamon skull $100 art?
Damien Hirst paid someone $20 million to actually make the diamond skull.
2012 Is a $70,000 340 ton rock worth $10 million as art?
2012 Are 100 million handcrafted porcelain sunflower seeds art?
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2013 Jean-Michel Basquiat a street art painting fetches record $48.8M in NY
This painting looks like it was done by my 6 year old is it worth $48 million?
2016
Photograqpher Kevin Abosch sold a picture of a potato for over $1 million
He also sells portraits of Silicon valleys one percenters for $150k a picture.
Vandalism in art
2006 Pinoncelli, French, attacked the Fountain, a urinal made
by Duchamps in 1917 with a small hamer.
2003 2 British artist, the Chapman brothers, were accused of
adding faces of clowns and pupets to 80 etchings in a
Edition of Goya's war they had purchased.
2002 Pinoncelli, French, (Fountain hater) at a festival of performance art in
Cali, Colombia, protesting the kidnapping of a Colombia
politician Ingrid Betancourt, by FARC leftist gurrelias
cut off half of the smallest finger on his left hand,
and used his blood to write FRAC on a white wall.
His artwork did not impress FRAC who are still holding
Ms. Betancourt.
2001 In "Break Down", Landy, British,in a empty department store,
destroyed all his possessions including art donated by friends
2001 A Hirst display at Mayfair Gallery -- half full coffee
cups, dirty ashtrays, and beer bottles and the like,
was thrown away by janitors who mistook it for trash.
2000 2 chinese artist urinated on Tates Modern version of the Fountain
1999 2 chinese artist jumped on Tracey Emins unmade bed in "My Bed"
on exhibit at Tate Britian
1993 Pinoceelli, French, attach the Fountain with a hammer after pissing in it.
1991 Damien Hirsh, British, encases a dead 14-ft tiger shark in formaldehyde,
at Saatchi's gallery in London. Hirsh calls the dead shark "The Physical
Impossibility of Death In The Mind Of Someone Living".
Saatchi paid Hirst £50,000 for it in 1991, after Hirst had spent £6,000
on acquiring the dead animal from Australia.
Saatchi's sold the shart to a American stockbroker for £7 million
(about $12 million) in 2005. The shark was also nominated for
the prestigous Turner award.
Shark Picture
In 2007 Hirst is trying to sell a human skull enbeded with
diamonds for $100 million. Hirst did not make it. He paid $20
million to a jeweler to make it for him. Hirst hopes to make
a $80 million profit because of his name. Hirst sold the skull
in Sept 2007 for $101 million.
1991 A artist took a hammer to Michelangelo's David and damaged a foot
1976 Blue dye was sprayed over Carl Andre display of Bricks
at the Tate Gallery
Black ink was squirted into a transparent container
displaying Damien Hirst's dead sheep perserved in
formaldehyde at the Serpentine Gallery in London
1956 Mona Lisa struck with a stone