Comments on: Modern Art? http://www.brianscube.com/2008/03/19/modern-art/ My view from cubeville. Sat, 22 Nov 2008 05:01:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Nick http://www.brianscube.com/2008/03/19/modern-art/#comment-5209 Nick Wed, 07 May 2008 17:33:21 +0000 http://www.brianscube.com/2008/03/19/modern-art/#comment-5209 I think the artist was making a brilliant observation/commentary in an ironic way. You went to the museum to see "art" so he gave you a boring, mundane, everyday object, gave it a title and called it art - and you looked at it and pondered "why is this art?". Yet in real life, we pass by many beautiful things in our everyday lives and never look twice at them. No one has pointed them out to us or labeled them so we don't care. Was it art? I think yes - in the sense that it very simply made you ask the question. I could, of course, be full of crap but I'll let you decide :) I think the artist was making a brilliant observation/commentary in an ironic way. You went to the museum to see “art” so he gave you a boring, mundane, everyday object, gave it a title and called it art - and you looked at it and pondered “why is this art?”. Yet in real life, we pass by many beautiful things in our everyday lives and never look twice at them. No one has pointed them out to us or labeled them so we don’t care. Was it art? I think yes - in the sense that it very simply made you ask the question.

I could, of course, be full of crap but I’ll let you decide :)

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