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2006-01-06 -Short Attention Span Theater-

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Posted by tu3031 2006-01-06 16:24|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 LOL, tu. YJCMTSU. At least not of this quality.

Posted by .com 2006-01-06 17:24|| 2006-01-06 17:24|| Front Page Top

#2 Nothing says "Modern Art" better than going to the hardware store and buying a 10 Franck pissoir.

Posted by ed 2006-01-06 17:57|| 2006-01-06 17:57|| Front Page Top

#3 Lost track of him in '93. The commitment papers are missing...

Posted by Inspector Clueso 2006-01-06 18:08|| 2006-01-06 18:08|| Front Page Top

#4 The article neglected to mention how, in May of 2000, Yuan Cai and Jian Ji Xi put Duchamp's "Fountain" to its real life and rather pedestrian use.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/758315.stm

Yuan Cai and Jian Ji Xi claim they urinated over one of the new Tate Modern gallery's exhibits to "celebrate the spirit of modern art." Their target was Marcel Duchamp's Fountain, a ready-made urinal which itself shocked the art world when it was unveiled in 1917.

The men say they have video footage of their most recent "performance" which shows them standing either side of the Fountain, urinating for a minute in front of bemused onlookers.

"The aim of the exercise was to make people re-evaluate what constitutes art itself and how an act can be art," said Katie Hill, a spokeswoman for the men.

Needless to say (then why say it?), I nearly pissed myself laughing at how appropriate this bit of nonsense was at the time. Even better, these two bozos also bounced on one of the notorious bed exhibits by major loon, Tracey Emin.

Mr Cai, a graduate of the Royal College of Art, and Mr Xi, who studied art at Goldsmiths College, were arrested last year after they stripped down to their underpants and jumped up and down on Tracey Emin's work My Bed at the Tate Gallery in the name of artistic expression.

The pair, whose offering was entitled Two Naked Men Jump into Tracey's Bed, managed to express themselves for 15 minutes before they were apprehended by security guards and arrested.

This pretentious wankerette managed to sell the art world an unmade bed strewn with an empty vodka bottle, used condoms and dirty underwear. All this for a mere Â£35,000!

Yes folks, something we normally pay people to clean up was sold by this hoodwinking moron for almost $100,000.
BUT WAIT, THERE'S MORE!

Ms Emin's latest work features a urine-soaked sheet inspired by a childhood bedwetting episode.

One can only wonder how much she was paid to intentionally wet her bed. Most insane of all is Duchamp's pissoire being called "the most influential work of modern art". I feel like I should go puke in the d@mned thing in order to make my life complete.

Posted by Zenster 2006-01-06 18:10|| 2006-01-06 18:10|| Front Page Top

#5 We must always keep in mind that "art" can't be explained - or such is held by "modern" art zoomers.

This is not an unbelievably beautiful painting by Rembrandt van Rijn. Nor this a self-portait...

And this can't be a masterpiece of Claude Monet...

Or this Seurat's Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte.

No. It would trivialize them -- and expose the fuckwit pretenders of today. Toilets, used condoms, chains, and urine contitute the highest form of art, today. Just ask the "artists".

To paraphrase a ZF post, Rembrandt wept.

Posted by .com 2006-01-06 18:31|| 2006-01-06 18:31|| Front Page Top

#6 Sheeat, my plumbers could hook the Pompadou (heh) Center up with a brand spankin' new urinal complete with an infrared automatic flush valve for well under $600.00

Posted by Parabellum 2006-01-06 18:58|| 2006-01-06 18:58|| Front Page Top

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