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Pavlov is correct. It's frozen dog crap.
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Why? It's up to the viewer.Originally posted by moomin
Thank you, gentlemen. Some of you, no doubt, a geering up for careers as post-modernist art critics. Still, I'd like some suggestions as to what this particular piece of art tries to depict, not only the fairly trivial statement that it is art - I mean, what isn't?
Sure, it's interesting to hear the artist's motives to add new angles of appreciation, but very far from crucial. Take Holbien's "The Ambassadors" for example. Nearly 500 years on still nobody's got a clue what that's all about, but what an impact it makes.
That's not a post-modernist interpreatation, by the way. It's the bedrock of artistic appreciation gor the last 150 years. Art is not a DIY flat-pack sideboard from IKEA- it doesn't come with instructions telling the viewer what to think. Use your imagination.The genesis of the "evil Finn" concept- Evil, evil FinlandComment
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A toilet signed by Duchamps is art, but only because he was making a point about how hackneyed the art world had become. (Some nitwit actually did this again in the 90s.Originally posted by moomin
not only the fairly trivial statement that it is art - I mean, what isn't?
) Art has a message. And contrary to your stupidity, against which the gods themselves struggle in vain, art criticism isn't post-modern. There have been art critics since the first caveman painted his hand on a cliff wall.
Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...Comment
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ships? snails? trolls melted by the sun?CSPAComment
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Contend. It's contend in vain, you commie ignoramus, you.Originally posted by chegitz guevara
And contrary to your stupidity, against which the gods themselves struggle in vain"The number of political murders was a little under one million (800,000 - 900,000)." - chegitz guevara on the history of the USSR.
"I think the real figures probably are about a million or less." - David Irving on the number of Holocaust victims.Comment
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I'd vote for either clouds, or frozen poo.
And if this thing had been installed in an American city, I'd title it "Lawsuit Waiting to Happen".Comment
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They remind me of clouds... and carriers (those big ships, nothing that has to do with modems)... so obviously it's about Tove Jansson.
Hm. Random subconscious association at work, it seems. I actually had to wonder why I was thinking about Tove Jansson for some time...This is Shireroth, and Giant Squid will brutally murder me if I ever remove this link from my signature | In the end it won't be love that saves us, it will be mathematics | So many people have this concept of God the Avenger. I see God as the ultimate sense of humor -- SlowwHandComment
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The most horrifying interpretation so far. Take a bow, good Sir.Originally posted by LightEning
They remind me of clouds... and carriers (those big ships, nothing that has to do with modems)... so obviously it's about Tove Jansson.
Did you now?I actually had to wonder why I was thinking about Tove Jansson for some time...
"The number of political murders was a little under one million (800,000 - 900,000)." - chegitz guevara on the history of the USSR.
"I think the real figures probably are about a million or less." - David Irving on the number of Holocaust victims.Comment
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/me takes a bow (with arrows)
(couldn't resist a horrible pun after your good praises)This is Shireroth, and Giant Squid will brutally murder me if I ever remove this link from my signature | In the end it won't be love that saves us, it will be mathematics | So many people have this concept of God the Avenger. I see God as the ultimate sense of humor -- SlowwHandComment
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They look like shoes- perhaps representing capitalists trampling over the workers?"I'm moving to the Left" - Lancer
"I imagine the neighbors on your right are estatic." - SlowwhandComment
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felled treesConcrete, Abstract, or Squoingy?
"I don't believe in giving scripting languages because the only additional power they give users is the power to create bugs." - Mike Breitkreutz, FiraxisComment
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They look like slugs, meandering across the pavement. Clearly some have been stepped on.What's so funny 'bout peace, love and understanding?Comment
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BTW, moomin, I take great exception to your comparing me to a Holocause denier. The irony, of course, is Irving is much closer to your politics than mine. I think you two would be perfectly happy misrepresenting the truth together.Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...Comment
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I have no idea whatsoever what this can be... Is it in Stockholm, moomin?
But 'socialist art'? Really...
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yep it's in Stockholm, on a square with a name that I can't reveal.
Close to Strandvägen. sorry for stealing your answers, moomin.
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