''This machine kills fascists'' ...
''this is not a pipe'' ...
''Policeman accused of 'inappropriate' treatment of Whitney Houston's corpse''...
which, if any, are considered Art?
A repost:
The gallery
Someone left luggage
in a pile on the floor,
I lifted it up
to a hook by the door.
A crowd had then gathered,
and to my lasting surprise
the jurors all nodded
it was awarded first prize.
words, foto and Art arrangement T Carroll
A point very well made. Hilarious.
I still think your poem is terrific, and I'm glad you've put it up again for new WOLers.
I think that a flexible mind can be very adaptive, and open to suggestion. IMO, all art is just that - a peep hole to see into the artist's mind, the connection depending entirely upon the viewer's own experience. How can you relate to what you've never known?
Ha, love it Tommy!
Rock on Tommy! You make your point well and with humour, which I love :)
There's no intrinsic value to much of what gets displayed in these galleries - it's throw away art that might make you think for a minute, but no longer than that.
I've never got too involved in arguments over piles of bricks before or arguing about what art should be - I don't have the energy. And the art exhibition where dead people were opened up and put on display - I found that macabre but not offensive.
Exploitation and degradation of the living is something else though, I find that inexcusable.
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jane wilcock
Sun 22nd Sep 2013 15:04
Brill. (I fell over a chair in a pile of chairs at a gallery once and was rebuked for it. Difficult to know where it should go back I said). One persons luggage is another persons trash!