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> I really enjoy listening to people's anger ranting why its not really art, or why anyone could do that, etc. If art is intended to garner a reaction - Pollock
by msla 6y ago
> I really enjoy listening to people's anger ranting why its not really art, or why anyone could do that, etc. If art is intended to garner a reaction - Pollock accomplishes that in spades.
What's the difference between art and trolling? Is trolling a art to you?
Also: Piss Christ
If art is meant to provoke a response, art which provokes death threats must be the greatest art of all.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piss_Christ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piss_Christ
> Gallery officials reported receiving death threats in response to Piss Christ.
Also, knowing what we know about what Pell was getting up to, this must be the greatest work of irony-as-art yet:
> During a retrospective of Serrano's work at the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) in 1997, the then Catholic Archbishop of Melbourne, George Pell, sought an injunction from the Supreme Court of Victoria to restrain the National Gallery of Victoria from publicly displaying Piss Christ, which was not granted.
- Igelau 6y agoThat poor guy is being crucified. After being betrayed, hauling the device of his own execution up a hill, being whipped, crowned with thorns and mocked. Being submerged in piss is the least of his worries and indignities... yet it still manages to be a pretty picture.
- erulabs 6y agoHah that's so well said. I had typed a response about why that piece of art didn't really do much for me, but it was like 3 paragraphs long - this is a perfect way to put it!