But deep in the woods?
Posted: Sat Apr 05, 2025 5:14 am
So the conclusion is this: art only exists for its audience. You know the story: if a tree falls deep in the woods with no one to hear it, does it make a noise? If Picasso paints something deep in the woods with no one to contemplate it, does he create a work of art? Or does he simply make the squirrels laugh? And if Picasso makes a 250-kilo hazelnut, does he become an artist for the squirrels? And what would Picasso do with 250 kilos of nuts? Again, a 250-kilo nut driving a Picasso, you see plenty of them on the ring road, And what are you bothering me with your questions, anyway?
So, it's quite amusing to note that while contemporary art has become a gigantic part of Taboo since you don't want to look like an idiot, no one is really interested in whether the work is one in the public eye or not. Which is vaguely buy phone number list unfortunate, since debating the rest is a bit like debating Rise of the Planet of the Apes ; some will tell you it's a work of the 7th art, others that it's a dark piece of shit.
The only thing it tells you is who has taste and who doesn't.
So, the same goes for exhibiting an inflatable green plastic tree as a "major work", or a little before, there was worse in the same place (but there was no reference to sex, so we didn't care), namely this:
The work is there. Yes. Yes, look. Yes, me too, at first I just thought it was a restoration scaffolding that had collapsed. No, it's Tadashi Kawamata's "Cabin." And no, it doesn't even form a cabin, in case you were wondering.
Personally, I still have my old principle: " When it takes longer to justify a work than to make it, there is probably a problem ." (also valid when your students come to try to negotiate 0.5 points on their copy for 20 minutes when it took them 0.7 seconds to get the answer wrong), but note that this highlights the real problem:
It's neither the artist nor the work. Nor what we see or don't see in it. And even less what Art is in the universal sense, since it doesn't exist.
The problem is that on one side there are people who find it brilliant and see it as a work of art and who have a position and sufficient means to inflict it on the rest of the world, and on the other side there are people stupid enough to destroy everything on the grounds that they don't like it, and therefore also reinforce what they despise.
So, it's quite amusing to note that while contemporary art has become a gigantic part of Taboo since you don't want to look like an idiot, no one is really interested in whether the work is one in the public eye or not. Which is vaguely buy phone number list unfortunate, since debating the rest is a bit like debating Rise of the Planet of the Apes ; some will tell you it's a work of the 7th art, others that it's a dark piece of shit.
The only thing it tells you is who has taste and who doesn't.
So, the same goes for exhibiting an inflatable green plastic tree as a "major work", or a little before, there was worse in the same place (but there was no reference to sex, so we didn't care), namely this:
The work is there. Yes. Yes, look. Yes, me too, at first I just thought it was a restoration scaffolding that had collapsed. No, it's Tadashi Kawamata's "Cabin." And no, it doesn't even form a cabin, in case you were wondering.
Personally, I still have my old principle: " When it takes longer to justify a work than to make it, there is probably a problem ." (also valid when your students come to try to negotiate 0.5 points on their copy for 20 minutes when it took them 0.7 seconds to get the answer wrong), but note that this highlights the real problem:
It's neither the artist nor the work. Nor what we see or don't see in it. And even less what Art is in the universal sense, since it doesn't exist.
The problem is that on one side there are people who find it brilliant and see it as a work of art and who have a position and sufficient means to inflict it on the rest of the world, and on the other side there are people stupid enough to destroy everything on the grounds that they don't like it, and therefore also reinforce what they despise.