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| 2006-01-06 |
| ...and not just an artist, folks, a "performance' artist. PARIS A 76-year-old performance artist was arrested after attacking Marcel Duchamp's "Fountain" _ a porcelain urinal _ with a hammer, police said. I'll translate: I have never worked a day in my 76 year life. Duchamp's 1917 piece _ an ordinary white, porcelain urinal that's been called one of the most influential works of modern art _ was slightly chipped in the attack at the Pompidou Center in Paris, the museum said Thursday. It was removed from the exhibit for repair. That first sentence tell me all I need to know about the modern art world. The suspect, a Provence resident whose identity was not released, already vandalized the work in 1993 _ urinating into the piece when it was on display in Nimes, in southern France, police said. I might have cut him some slack on that one. During questioning, the man claimed his hammer attack on Wednesday was a work of performance art that might have pleased Dada artists. The early 20th-century avant-garde movement was the focus of the exhibit that ends Monday, police said. They called it the Dada movement because I believe that's who paid their bills while they ran around calling toilets modern art masterpieces... A 2004 poll of 500 arts figures ranked "Fountain" as the most influential work of modern art _ ahead of Pablo Picasso's "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon," Andy Warhol's screen prints of Marilyn Monroe and "Guernica," Picasso's depiction of war's devastation. Can I become an "arts figure"? Is there a test? A waiting list? Do you have to "know somebody"? "Fountain" is estimated at $3.6 million. That's all! |
| Posted by:tu3031 |
| #6 Sheeat, my plumbers could hook the Pompadou (heh) Center up with a brand spankin' new urinal complete with an infrared automatic flush valve for well under $600.00 |
| Posted by: Parabellum 2006-01-06 18:58 |
| #5 We must always keep in mind that "art" can't be explained - or such is held by "modern" art zoomers. This is not an unbelievably beautiful painting by Rembrandt van Rijn. Nor this a self-portait... And this can't be a masterpiece of Claude Monet... Or this Seurat's Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte. No. It would trivialize them -- and expose the fuckwit pretenders of today. Toilets, used condoms, chains, and urine contitute the highest form of art, today. Just ask the "artists". To paraphrase a ZF post, Rembrandt wept. |
| Posted by: .com 2006-01-06 18:31 |
| #4 The article neglected to mention how, in May of 2000, Yuan Cai and Jian Ji Xi put Duchamp's "Fountain" to its real life and rather pedestrian use. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/758315.stm Yuan Cai and Jian Ji Xi claim they urinated over one of the new Tate Modern gallery's exhibits to "celebrate the spirit of modern art." Their target was Marcel Duchamp's Fountain, a ready-made urinal which itself shocked the art world when it was unveiled in 1917. The men say they have video footage of their most recent "performance" which shows them standing either side of the Fountain, urinating for a minute in front of bemused onlookers. "The aim of the exercise was to make people re-evaluate what constitutes art itself and how an act can be art," said Katie Hill, a spokeswoman for the men. Needless to say (then why say it?), I nearly pissed myself laughing at how appropriate this bit of nonsense was at the time. Even better, these two bozos also bounced on one of the notorious bed exhibits by major loon, Tracey Emin. Mr Cai, a graduate of the Royal College of Art, and Mr Xi, who studied art at Goldsmiths College, were arrested last year after they stripped down to their underpants and jumped up and down on Tracey Emin's work My Bed at the Tate Gallery in the name of artistic expression. The pair, whose offering was entitled Two Naked Men Jump into Tracey's Bed, managed to express themselves for 15 minutes before they were apprehended by security guards and arrested. This pretentious wankerette managed to sell the art world an unmade bed strewn with an empty vodka bottle, used condoms and dirty underwear. All this for a mere £35,000! Yes folks, something we normally pay people to clean up was sold by this hoodwinking moron for almost $100,000. BUT WAIT, THERE'S MORE! Ms Emin's latest work features a urine-soaked sheet inspired by a childhood bedwetting episode. One can only wonder how much she was paid to intentionally wet her bed. Most insane of all is Duchamp's pissoire being called "the most influential work of modern art". I feel like I should go puke in the d@mned thing in order to make my life complete. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2006-01-06 18:10 |
| #3 Lost track of him in '93. The commitment papers are missing... |
| Posted by: Inspector Clueso 2006-01-06 18:08 |
| #2 Nothing says "Modern Art" better than going to the hardware store and buying a 10 Franck pissoir. |
| Posted by: ed 2006-01-06 17:57 |
| #1 LOL, tu. YJCMTSU. At least not of this quality. |
| Posted by: .com 2006-01-06 17:24 |
