Please try and explain to me why this is art.

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I don’t claim to understand art at all and I am totally not in the ‘all modern art is rubbish’ camp. I love Tracey Emin’s stuff and I try to be open minded about cultural stuff.
I went to the Tate Modern yesterday and saw this. My immediate feeling was ‘Why the fuck is in one the world’s most visited art galleries followed by ‘I could do that’.
I’m not looking to be persuaded that I should like it - there was stuff that I saw that wasn’t my thing but I could still appreciate it IYKWIM

For those still pondering the meaning of it all, here are some inspirational pieces to consider, from our very own cannon of MN

Classics.
www.mumsnet.com/Talk/mumsnet_classics/1255683-The-Museum-of-Modern-Toddler-Art

OP, well done on your latest creation. It says to me "I'm pissed off because I didn't get my night out". Hope your ear is healing ok. Looking forward to your piece including the severed ear.

Now I want to take DD to Tate Modern on a day out. I think it might be a barrel of laughs My son was about 10 when we went, we had such a good laugh It's not all a load of rubbish either

I love the Tate Modern and I really love the Serpentine.

I've a friend that works at one of them and it's really good to hear the background to some exhibitions. One was conceptual art and included a golf ball - naturally I laughed - but the ball had hit over the top of the building by a golf pro and remained unmoved from where it came to rest. The extra bit of the story made it more interesting.

A favourite was the piano on the ceiling, every now and then the keys would fall out and gradually get wound back up into position.

I love and appreciate art, but my idea of art is something that shows evidence of talent, and something that I can tell what it is without having to have it explained to me. Or maybe I am just a closed minded philistine

I just get the impression that a lot of modern art is “emperor’s new clothes” and the artists are just taking the piss out of the gullible public.

Except now you have done it OP

I think you have a future, OP.

Is Saatchi still a fan of that stuff?

But I think you're missing a trick there. Street art is all the fashion now.

More seriously, I think modern art galleries really are more fun for children than traditional art.

It’s definitely all in the eye of the beholder. I went to art school and we had one project that I just couldn’t be bothered to do. It was a wet Sunday so I raised the cupboards and cobbled together a piece of ‘modern art’.

Whether I am a genius or not will never be know but this particular item ended up in the end of year show (I didn’t choose or - our head of course did) and I went along to man the exhibition and loitered next to it to eavesdrop.

A couple stood by it for a while discecting it, what it all meant, what it represented - reading an awful lot into what was essentially the contents of the kitchen cabinet. They seemed to like it. I almost wet myself but hey, there’s no accounting for taste.

My other work scared people apparently 😕

The toddler art thread is one of my all-time favourites.

I was in my toddler art period.

we were there the other day too. Did you see the exhibit which was basically a shitload of old radios all piled up on top of each other? And the room full of Venetian blinds hanging from the ceiling? My kids prefer the Tate to the National Gallery though, which is interesting

I need to come up with a good name for this since "postmodern art" is already taken but if I go to see things like this it's mostly to read the descriptions and admire the imagination of people who came up with the most out-of-there concepts attached to a half-unrolled loo roll, stack of stones or cutlery.
Whoever used most 5-or-more syllable words wins.

This piece speaks to me tbh.

I thought it was an early kind of towel dryer. At least when you get fed up with the art you can double purpose it.

Mine too Darling ! I had a happy lunch break revisiting it!

I need to come up with a good name for this since "postmodern art" is already taken but if I go to see things like this it's mostly to read the descriptions and admire the imagination of people who came up with the most out-of-there concepts attached to a half-unrolled loo roll, stack of stones or cutlery. Whoever used most 5-or-more syllable words wins.

'An intoxicating phantasmagoria of the mundanity juxtaposed with the effervescence discovered in existential fortitude. Integrated seamlessly with the debitage of the conflicted imbecilic superciliousness shown by its originator'.

I found my son taking a photo of a pencil line on a piece of paper in the museum of modern art in Amsterdam. He was sending the photo to his friend because he found it so hilarious that it was ‘art’.

@iklboo

Wavering derivatives are juxtaposed with unrelenting divergence of the moment, demonstrating the omnipresent lingering of a corporate world. Through contemplation of inevitability in momentary replicas the binaries we continually reconstruct are subliminally reversed in a reconfiguration of reference to the cacophony of temptation.

If anyone fancies creating themselves an instant artist statement, the artybollocks generator is very good www.artybollocks.com

Sample -
My work explores the relationship between gender politics and skateboard ethics. With influences as diverse as Machiavelli and Miles Davis, new combinations are generated from both traditional and modern narratives.

Ever since I was a postgraduate I have been fascinated by the essential unreality of relationships. What starts out as triumph soon becomes manipulated into a hegemony of defeat, leaving only a sense of decadence and the dawn of a new synthesis.

As momentary derivatives become reconfigured through emergent and academic practice, the viewer is left with an epitaph for the edges of our existence.

This is my most challenging piece to date. I feel emotionally raw now.

Every time I send my dad pictures I send my kids artwork to my dad he replies send it to tate modern it’s better than the stuff there. They are 1& 2

The photo doesn’t really pick up the dead batteries juxtaposed with the pork chop signifying .....er, hang on a minute

This piece shows the futility of life alone. The concept came to me after finishing a honey sandwich and wanting another. Instead of making one, I played solitaire to fill the gap- with no success.

I’ve named it ‘Validation Famine’ 2019.

😂 This reminds me of the time DH asked if a mop was art in a gallery.