Comments on: Artists, Please Expand Your Horizons http://alistairrobinson.co.uk/artists-please-expand-your-horizons/ Thu, 26 Jan 2012 22:34:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Alistair Robinson http://alistairrobinson.co.uk/artists-please-expand-your-horizons/comment-page-1/#comment-121 Alistair Robinson Fri, 14 Aug 2009 10:32:32 +0000 http://www.alistairrobinson.co.uk/blog/?p=70#comment-121 @Extenze, thanks for the comment. Why IS there a problem in the first place? Any ideas? @Extenze, thanks for the comment. Why IS there a problem in the first place? Any ideas?

]]> By: Extenze http://alistairrobinson.co.uk/artists-please-expand-your-horizons/comment-page-1/#comment-120 Extenze Fri, 14 Aug 2009 10:24:41 +0000 http://www.alistairrobinson.co.uk/blog/?p=70#comment-120 It sounds like you're creating problems yourself by trying to solve this issue instead of looking at why their is a problem in the first place. It sounds like you’re creating problems yourself by trying to solve this issue instead of looking at why their is a problem in the first place.

]]> By: Der Mussolini http://alistairrobinson.co.uk/artists-please-expand-your-horizons/comment-page-1/#comment-119 Der Mussolini Thu, 23 Jul 2009 08:18:08 +0000 http://www.alistairrobinson.co.uk/blog/?p=70#comment-119 let's start shitting inside a melon, might finance next year's holiday let's start shitting inside a melon, might finance next year's holiday

]]> By: Al http://alistairrobinson.co.uk/artists-please-expand-your-horizons/comment-page-1/#comment-118 Al Wed, 22 Jul 2009 15:31:14 +0000 http://www.alistairrobinson.co.uk/blog/?p=70#comment-118 Excellent. Why didn't I think of those?<br /><br />In case you missed it folks there's an update to the post saying that the bananas have been valued at £15,000. Excellent. Why didn't I think of those?

In case you missed it folks there's an update to the post saying that the bananas have been valued at £15,000.

]]> By: Der Mussolini http://alistairrobinson.co.uk/artists-please-expand-your-horizons/comment-page-1/#comment-117 Der Mussolini Wed, 22 Jul 2009 15:10:21 +0000 http://www.alistairrobinson.co.uk/blog/?p=70#comment-117 well...There's bound to be something we can find there, you know art criticism, the art of seeing things were there's fuck-all and to talk out of one's arse:<br />Explanation 1<br />this was an ode to she-wee? How ladies used to pee in the countryside before the banana calibrations laws passed?<br />Explanation 2<br />his dad used to slap him with his wee-smelling man banana when he was a child?<br /><br />Explanation 3<br />Pisang” (read: pee-sāng) means “banana” in Indonesian... maybe we are onto something there...<br /><br />Explanation 4<br />Maybe the bananas peed themselves because the artist forgot to take them out >> http://newmedia.funnyjunk.com/pictures/banana-dogs.jpg <br /><br />Explanation 5<br />Maybe it just wasn't a banana<br />http://i13.ebayimg.com/05/i/000/fb/cb/c62e_1.JPG<br /><br />Explanation 6<br />Maybe it was just to mark his territory? these bananas are his and no-one can have them?<br /><br />Explanation 7<br />The bananas represent hunger in the 3rd world countries, the piss represent Bob Geldof? well…There's bound to be something we can find there, you know art criticism, the art of seeing things were there's fuck-all and to talk out of one's arse:
Explanation 1
this was an ode to she-wee? How ladies used to pee in the countryside before the banana calibrations laws passed?
Explanation 2
his dad used to slap him with his wee-smelling man banana when he was a child?

Explanation 3
Pisang” (read: pee-sāng) means “banana” in Indonesian… maybe we are onto something there…

Explanation 4
Maybe the bananas peed themselves because the artist forgot to take them out >> http://newmedia.funnyjunk.com/pictures/banana-dogs.jpg

Explanation 5
Maybe it just wasn't a banana
http://i13.ebayimg.com/05/i/000/fb/cb/c62e_1.JPG

Explanation 6
Maybe it was just to mark his territory? these bananas are his and no-one can have them?

Explanation 7
The bananas represent hunger in the 3rd world countries, the piss represent Bob Geldof?

]]> By: Chris Mancini http://alistairrobinson.co.uk/artists-please-expand-your-horizons/comment-page-1/#comment-116 Chris Mancini Wed, 22 Jul 2009 15:08:16 +0000 http://www.alistairrobinson.co.uk/blog/?p=70#comment-116 Absolutely. There would be no need for galleries if we continue to expand on conceptual art.<br /><br />There's many conceptual artists who already display their works in all manner of environments that don't usually house Art. Guys outside supermarkets in perspex boxes displaying themselves doing bizarre or quirky/interesting things (I'm not counting the ones who wank whilst there). A lot of the more creative Graffiti, or street art. These and others can genuinely extend art into day to day life, yet we can still appreciate them as art.<br /><br />However putting two items of day to day life, fruit and bodily fluid, into an Art Gallery, does not in fact make it art, and further just makes me wan't to slap the cretin that did...<br /><br />Still, I like the sound of the arch; I'd be happy with one surrounding my front door, adding some slightly surreal magnificence to it! Absolutely. There would be no need for galleries if we continue to expand on conceptual art.

There's many conceptual artists who already display their works in all manner of environments that don't usually house Art. Guys outside supermarkets in perspex boxes displaying themselves doing bizarre or quirky/interesting things (I'm not counting the ones who wank whilst there). A lot of the more creative Graffiti, or street art. These and others can genuinely extend art into day to day life, yet we can still appreciate them as art.

However putting two items of day to day life, fruit and bodily fluid, into an Art Gallery, does not in fact make it art, and further just makes me wan't to slap the cretin that did…

Still, I like the sound of the arch; I'd be happy with one surrounding my front door, adding some slightly surreal magnificence to it!

]]> By: Al http://alistairrobinson.co.uk/artists-please-expand-your-horizons/comment-page-1/#comment-115 Al Wed, 22 Jul 2009 14:48:54 +0000 http://www.alistairrobinson.co.uk/blog/?p=70#comment-115 Yes, I'm with you. I think you hit the nail on the head when you say that anything can be thought-provoking. In our daily lives most of us come up with more interesting observations than are explored by conceptual art. The world around us is full of interesting juxtapositions. The only thing that makes conceptual art art is that it's displayed as such. Why would artists be satisfied with such an empty definition? It's meta-art: art about art and art about galleries and so on. I can see why there might be space for that kind of thing on the sidelines, but if the art world is dominated by it then it ceases to be daring or interesting. Yes, I'm with you. I think you hit the nail on the head when you say that anything can be thought-provoking. In our daily lives most of us come up with more interesting observations than are explored by conceptual art. The world around us is full of interesting juxtapositions. The only thing that makes conceptual art art is that it's displayed as such. Why would artists be satisfied with such an empty definition? It's meta-art: art about art and art about galleries and so on. I can see why there might be space for that kind of thing on the sidelines, but if the art world is dominated by it then it ceases to be daring or interesting.

]]> By: Chris Mancini http://alistairrobinson.co.uk/artists-please-expand-your-horizons/comment-page-1/#comment-114 Chris Mancini Wed, 22 Jul 2009 14:39:19 +0000 http://www.alistairrobinson.co.uk/blog/?p=70#comment-114 Urine injected bananas.....<br /><br />Actually, this makes me quite sad. I'm a bit of a hypocritical traditionalist when it comes to art; as I have the false illusion that <i>really</i> art should have a bit of talent behind it aswell as creativity. I'm not really a believer in art <i>only</i> needing to be thought provoking. Anything and everything can be such, but it sure as hell doesn't make everything (in the most literal sense) Art.<br /><br />Don't get me wrong, there have been under-skilled works of art (thuogh I'm not a fan myself), but I can't see how fruit with bodily excreted fluid inside it counts as anything, other than stinking and irrelevant?<br /><br />Maybe I'm missing something... Urine injected bananas…..

Actually, this makes me quite sad. I'm a bit of a hypocritical traditionalist when it comes to art; as I have the false illusion that really art should have a bit of talent behind it aswell as creativity. I'm not really a believer in art only needing to be thought provoking. Anything and everything can be such, but it sure as hell doesn't make everything (in the most literal sense) Art.

Don't get me wrong, there have been under-skilled works of art (thuogh I'm not a fan myself), but I can't see how fruit with bodily excreted fluid inside it counts as anything, other than stinking and irrelevant?

Maybe I'm missing something…

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