Is this Art? Discuss -

[BrigitDoon]

A washing line with an Iron Maiden t-shirt hung on it has a greater claim to being art.

[fourbytwo]

remember the story about 'The Emperor's New Clothes'.....?
We are all sold a bill of goods by 'Professional Worthies' who tell us what is Art, and what is not......!
Anyone not able to understand this 'ART' is deemed ignorant and uneducated....
So, not to seem so ignorant....we listen to the ranting of some academic nobody, who will enlighten us into the many 'insights of new and modern art'....and we walk away none the wiser...!
But remember.....somewhere along the line, monies and grants have been awarded 'by stealth' in the name of benefiting the General public......so, who gets the last laugh.......Not Us..!

[Dexter St. Clair]

Anyone not able to understand this 'ART' is deemed ignorant and uneducated....

Evidence please.

[rabmania]

Glad to see you back and on form Dex. Thanks for the Little Feat postings too.

[Dot]

Sunflower,

For some reason your photo made me think of this.
My OH saw this when he was on a trip to Germany.

http://iconicphotos.wordpress.com/2009/ ... .reichstag

[Sunflower]

Ah yes, the great Reichstag Wrapping - didn't the same guy do a length of rocky coastline somewhere? Maybe being Huge makes it (cough) Art?

Anyway, how about these (scroll down)?




Intriguing - would be good on the recently derelict ground at Ibrox, between the stadium and the M8 (only perhaps more, bigger, and more spaced out) - spectral remains of vanished streets, gradually crumbling into themselves.

Still not convinced about the Art part though

Sunflower (Philistines Pseudonymous)

[viceroy]

Still not convinced about the Art part though

Me neither, but I do quite like them, actually. Where are these btw? Is this near the Riverside somewhere?

[Josef]

I think I had my say on the Turner Prize thread last year, so I won't bore you all by reposting the same sort of stuff.

Although I will say that although I like the idea behind the BBC thing, I think the execution is pretty crap.

Anyway, Art is it? I'll give youse Art. Bellahouston Park yesterday :

Snails.



Crush barriers. There's quite a few of these scattered around the park - this one is the largest. Marking out the path where I went sledging some years ago, when we had some snow.




And slightly unrelated, but they were at the end of the snail tracks. The magnificently-named John Knox Sex Machine play a gig on the balcony of The House For an Art Lover.

Just like The Beatles in Oxford Street, really. Except with more weans playing football, and complimentary red wine.



They were quite good, since you ask.

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[BrigitDoon]

Still not convinced about the Art part though

Me neither, but I do quite like them, actually. Where are these btw? Is this near the Riverside somewhere?

Just to the right of this view >>, I'd say.

Art? No. Fun? Yes.

[viceroy]

I walked past there on Wednesday morning and didn't see these snail tracks so they must have appeared within the last couple of days. Looks like somebody's been making a series of perambulations carrying leaking pots of paint (maybe they have).

As for the barriers, they're just plain silly in my opinion. But I quite like the concrete blocks which sit inside the footprint of Bellahouston House and have also been placed at intervals on the grassland at the back of the Palace of Art. Probably a matter of time before they're all covered in graffiti though.

[viceroy]

Still not convinced about the Art part though

Me neither, but I do quite like them, actually. Where are these btw? Is this near the Riverside somewhere?

Just to the right of this view >>, I'd say.

Art? No. Fun? Yes.

Thanks Brigit. I had a feeling that was the Norfolk Court flats on the left in Sunflower's 2nd picture.

[Josef]

As for the barriers, they're just plain silly in my opinion. But I quite like the concrete blocks which sit inside the footprint of Bellahouston House and have also been placed at intervals on the grassland at the back of the Palace of Art. Probably a matter of time before they're all covered in graffiti though.

I wouldn't wholly disagree with either of those points.

Well, to be honest, I wouldn't disagree with them at all. The blocks have been in place for quite some time now, though, with no sign of molestation. Long may it continue.

[Bridie]

A washing line with an Iron Maiden t-shirt hung on it has a greater claim to being art.

I think ye's have all jumped the gun a bit here cause the " triptych of latex replica walls" isn't finished yet there's a second part

[Sunflower]

Where are these btw? Is this near the Riverside somewhere?

Just to the right of this view >>, I'd say.

Impressive, Brigit. If you twirl round on that streetview, the crumbling streetlights have replaced all the green portacabin jobs. Though in a way they're more interesting if semi-registered when hurrying along the river. I made a special diversion the other night to experience the full lit-up effect, but they weren't. Maybe next week.

I see a visit to Bellahouston Park is in order, quite like the look of the snail trails, I mean tracks. (Still dunno about the Art thing - I persist in the (no doubt hopelessly old-fashioned) prejudice that there needs to be a high level of skill in the implementation for it to be Real Art.)

Sunflower (Founder Member PP)

[Sunflower]

I think ye's have all jumped the gun a bit here cause the " triptych of latex replica walls" isn't finished yet there's a second part

Yikes!

The original thing had disappeared today - didn't seem to be standing up to the wind too well.