What does this say about the state of modern 'art'?

Post by **Martrae** » Thu Jun 15, 2006 9:37 am

Art gallery loses its head, displays plinth
Jun 15, 9:11 AM (ET)

LONDON (Reuters) - One of Britain's most prestigious art galleries put a block of slate on display, topped by a small piece of wood, in the mistaken belief it was a work of art.

The Royal Academy included the chunk of stone and the small bone-shaped wooden stick in its summer exhibition in London.

But the slate was actually a plinth -- a slab on which a pedestal is placed -- and the stick was designed to prop up a sculpture. The sculpture itself -- of a human head -- was nowhere to be seen.

"I think the things got separated in the selection process and the selectors presented the plinth as a complete sculpture," the work's artist David Hensel told BBC radio.

The academy explained the error by saying the plinth and the head were sent to the exhibitors separately.

"Given their separate submission, the two parts were judged independently," it said in a statement. "The head was rejected. The base was thought to have merit and accepted.

"The head has been safely stored ready to be collected by the artist," it added. "It is accepted that works may not be displayed in the way that the artist might have intended."

Too too funny.

Jimmy Durante · Post by **Jimmy Durante** » Thu Jun 15, 2006 10:05 am

Albrecht Durer is rolling in his grave.

Hound · Post by **Hound** » Thu Jun 15, 2006 10:23 am

Man Ray and Marcel Duchamp would likely have had a chuckle over it.

Evermore · Post by **Evermore** » Thu Jun 15, 2006 12:22 pm

I think their display people should stop having Guiness for lunch.

Hound would your Avatar be Vladimir Tepis?

Hound · Post by **Hound** » Thu Jun 15, 2006 12:46 pm

Evermore wrote:Hound would your Avatar be Vladimir Tepis?

No, it's Sandor Clegane.

Spazz · Post by **Spazz** » Thu Jun 15, 2006 2:34 pm

Modern art is a joke. When it comes down to the sculptures most of that looks like shit we throw away every day where i work

Ginzburgh · Post by **Ginzburgh** » Thu Jun 15, 2006 2:38 pm

Like Woody Allen said, "a guy can walk out on stage at carnegie hall and vomit and some asshole would call it art".

Spazz · Post by **Spazz** » Thu Jun 15, 2006 2:41 pm

sadly the world is fulla assholes with bad taste in all of the arts

Drem · Post by **Drem** » Thu Jun 15, 2006 6:07 pm

Considering somebody made millions of dollars for painting (literally) a solid red square, I don't think fine art exists anymore. De Stijl artists are rolling in their grave ~ ~

Captain Insano · Post by **Captain Insano** » Thu Jun 15, 2006 8:17 pm

Most art is talentless crap... I could probably act like a fag, get a heroine habit and take a shit on a nike show box and call it modern art and these morons would rave about how genious I am.

Fuck art. The last good artist I know of is Todd McFarlane. He could draw circles around the rest of these assmasters.

Narrock · Post by **Narrock** » Thu Jun 15, 2006 8:27 pm

Yeah, modern "art" is... meh. The sidewalk chalk artists are pretty amazing though.

Markarado · Post by **Markarado** » Thu Jun 15, 2006 9:21 pm

I still don't get how they make the sidewalk art work so 3D.

Harrison · Post by **Harrison** » Thu Jun 15, 2006 11:14 pm

It's all about perspective.

Markarado · Post by **Markarado** » Thu Jun 15, 2006 11:41 pm

This I know... I guess I'm just amazed that people can do this.

Captain Insano · Post by **Captain Insano** » Fri Jun 16, 2006 2:11 am

Markarado wrote:I still don't get how they make the sidewalk art work so 3D.

superman acid.