Blattodea, A+; Homo Sapiens, D

Mar 07, 2008 08:21

The New York Times this morning features a piece of art entitled "While Enhancing a Diminishing Deep Down Thirst the Juice Broke Loose (the Birth of a Soda Shop)." In the art world, it is probably deeply profound, subtle, and priceless. In the real world, it's a fish tank full of golf balls, topped with iris bulbs. I could re-create it for under ( Read more... )

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gunslingerborn March 7 2008, 15:38:49 UTC
Modern art is pretty much a mockery of anything sensible.

I love how we went from gorgeous sculptures and paintings...

...to crosses soaked in urine and elephant paintings selling for tens of thousands.

God help us.

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flidgetjerome March 7 2008, 19:19:01 UTC
Modern art deludes itself into thinking it is anything but establishment and mainsteam. If you look at what was accepted as art back when the Impressionists were first starting out, at height of the Victorian era, what was mainstream then was twee cutesy pictures of pretty girls and twee cutesy pictures of naked pretty girls because they had to get that sexual repression out somehow.

This too shall pass, history never bothers to remember the mediocre and the uninspiring.

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flidgetjerome March 7 2008, 19:24:42 UTC
From an evolutionary point of view collectively we're doing fantastic. As a species we've evolved to the point that some idiot can put a bunch of golf balls in a fishtank as a professional career and some other idiot can pay thousands of dollars for it and neither are going to get eaten by a tiger for being so stupid.

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tandooribone March 7 2008, 22:20:52 UTC
Sure, until they breed and further poison the gene pool.

What, this chlorine? Oh it's nothing...

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area_woman March 8 2008, 03:22:21 UTC
If a tiger eats a modern artist, is that performance art?

(Yes, point. But when you're so highly evolved that you can get away with things like that... it's just silly.)

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magicmethyl March 7 2008, 20:56:06 UTC
You take what you can get. Who's to say that all those modern artists wouldn't trade their bullshitting skills for venomous fangs or opposable toes if given the choice?

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persistent_sun March 8 2008, 01:09:35 UTC
"Some creatures have developed color-changing skins, venomous spit, or the ability to re-grow severed limbs. We've developed modern art."

I'm facebook quoting you on this.

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