by Gerst » Sat Oct 06, 2018 8:07 pm
Stooo wrote:I mentioned this in the random thread but you bring up some good points.
This is the first self-destructing artwork which in itself is unique and therefore it has actually ascended from a mere visual expression and is regarded both as itself and its form after destruction, got to be worth a lot more than was originally paid.
This guy hates the art world.
He fucking loves the money though, D.Hirst must be chewing his cheeks out wondering what next to pickle
The Swiss sculptor Jean Tinguely created some self-destructing artworks in the nineteen-sixties.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_TinguelyThere's not much that hasn't already been done, tbh, after Picasso, Duchamp, DADA, conceptual art, pop art, performance art, and several more decades of artists finding ever more extreme ways to be 'subversive'.
Banksy can be very witty though, in an art-director kind of way - usually a definite clear idea which you understand and get very quickly, like with a joke.
[quote="Stooo"]
I mentioned this in the random thread but you bring up some good points.
[b]This is the first self-destructing artwork which in itself is unique[/b] and therefore it has actually ascended from a mere visual expression and is regarded both as itself and its form after destruction, got to be worth a lot more than was originally paid.
[quote]This guy hates the art world.[/quote]
He fucking loves the money though, D.Hirst must be chewing his cheeks out wondering what next to pickle :mrgreen:[/quote]
The Swiss sculptor Jean Tinguely created some self-destructing artworks in the nineteen-sixties.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Tinguely
There's not much that hasn't already been done, tbh, after Picasso, Duchamp, DADA, conceptual art, pop art, performance art, and several more decades of artists finding ever more extreme ways to be 'subversive'.
Banksy can be very witty though, in an art-director kind of way - usually a definite clear idea which you understand and get very quickly, like with a joke.