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I just don't get it. At all.

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mawbroon · 07/05/2014 22:14

Seriously???? WTAF?

Someone please explain it to me.

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BobTheFly · 07/05/2014 22:15

Ok need a clue before I click on a link...

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mawbroon · 07/05/2014 22:15

Oh, ok. It's "art" BBC website, nothing dodgy, I promise!

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BobTheFly · 07/05/2014 22:16

Haha it's quite funny. Looks like my dd getting dressed and stuck!

NinetyNinePercentTroll · 07/05/2014 22:16

Nope, me either. Looks like a v bad pisstake.

MrsGoslingWannabe · 07/05/2014 22:18

Its ok. I thought you were having a breakdown going by your thread title.

gallicgirl · 07/05/2014 22:20

It's possibly about public interaction in art. By asking the public to become a piece of art for 60 seconds, they're thinking about how they fit into their environment and how they perceive art.

I'm probably not articulating it gery well but it's a clever idea to involve people in art who perhaps wouldn't walk into a gallery.

redandchecker · 07/05/2014 22:21

This made me laugh out loud, wtf!?

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mawbroon · 07/05/2014 22:32

This is not the first piece of "art" that has left me wondering WTAF?

In fact, pretty much all of it leaves me wondering the same thing.

I am actually quite jealous of people who get positive feelings from art.

The only type of paintings etc that I actually enjoy are those ones which look like photos. They leave me astounded at the technical ability of the artist. I have absolutely no ability to reproduce images in any shape or form, other than a photocopier LOL. My drawings are so bad that sometimes my DSs don't actually even recognise what they are supposed to be Sad

Anyone else feel lost when it comes to this stuff?

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Mintyy · 07/05/2014 22:34

Entirely by the by, but are you the mawbroon who had the terrible experience with eyebrow waxing?

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mawbroon · 07/05/2014 22:35

OMG, yes. That was me.

How on earth do you remember that?? Shock

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PomBearWithAnOFRS · 07/05/2014 22:35

I know what you mean mawbroon Grin
It's like when a forgery of a "Masterpeice" is worth nothing at all, but the original is worth millions, and yet the actual pictures are identical Confused - surely if the image itself, and how we feel when we look at it, is the point, then who paints it shouldn't matter...
And as for "modern art" - I just don't understand it one bit Grin and often wonder how much "those in the know" do, or if it's all just one big Emperor's New Clothes scam/self delusion on their part...

Gurnie · 07/05/2014 22:37

It is sort of funny but it's the sort of thing my young nephews would do when mucking about in their bedrooms! Not particularly accomplished is it?

Mintyy · 07/05/2014 22:40

I have absolutely no idea!! It was the pictures - they sort of imprinted on my brain. I think I made a vow there and then never to get mine waxed Grin.

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mawbroon · 07/05/2014 22:42

Oh dear, sorry! I think it was the last time I ever got mine waxed too! The salon is on about it's 4th change of owners since back then, but I've still never been back.

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ShotgunNotDoingThePans · 07/05/2014 22:51

'The only type of paintings etc that I actually enjoy are those ones which look like photos.'

It's your right of course to hold that view; but since the invention of the camera decent artists have aimed to find other ways of producing work, with varying degrees of success depending on who the viewer is, obv.

But there's no rule that says you have to like everything; just like music, people have different tastes and there's a place for a huge variety, thankfully.

WooWooOwl · 07/05/2014 22:57

Not getting art is usually a positive trait ime.

We took the dc to the Tate modern a few weeks ago. Most of it had us all baffled.

I do like that picture of princess Di that's made out of tumble drier fluff though.

ShotgunNotDoingThePans · 07/05/2014 22:58

How is 'not getting art' a 'positive trait?'

livingatheendofthewall · 08/05/2014 00:44

What's the harm? Don't be so closed-minded, just makes you sound ignorant and obnoxious! Not everything has to be so serious all the time...

PrincessBabyCat · 08/05/2014 00:46

LOL! I think I like this. :)

Tenrec · 08/05/2014 01:05

I don't get it at all. At the Tate, I saw Grey. A grey canvas. I don't get it. It's a colour. The description was about how it was meant to symbolic nothingness or something. It doesn't make me feel anything or think anything. Sometimes I wonder if they make a random thing and then add on a meaning.

tigermoll · 08/05/2014 06:31

Re. The masterpiece and the forgery - I agree that they may look the same, but often what makes something a masterpiece is that it represents a leap forward in artistic techniques or in ways of representing human feeling or experience. In that respect, it's that the masterpiece is the 'first' of its kind. Saying that a copy of the painting is the 'same' as the original is like me copying out lord of the rings on my computer and saying it's 'the same ' as if I wrote it.

ithaka · 08/05/2014 06:42

The only type of paintings etc that I actually enjoy are those ones which look like photos.

There probably the only type that leave me cold - what is the point, when we have cameras & photocopier?

I quite like things that seem silly, or quirky, or make you go WTF? when you first see them - they encourage you to use your brain & think about your reactions.

I often visit the Gallery of Modern Art in Edinburgh. If there are one or two things that engage me, then I come away happy - I don't expect to admire it all (it may help that galleries are free in Scotland).

CrohnicallyHungry · 08/05/2014 06:48

tiger but if you gave your typed out copy of LOTR to me, I could read and enjoy it (or not) exactly the same as if it were the original. I think that's the point Pombear was trying to make.

ithaka · 08/05/2014 07:06

But the original manuscript of LOTR will be worth ££££ and the typed copy won't be. You can enjoy both, but only one is worth lots of money, just the same as paintings. You can buy a reproduction to hang in your home, like you can buy a paperback. The original will also have a separate financial value.

TheMaw · 08/05/2014 07:22

I really like stuff like this, it's different and quirky, and it possibly makes you think more than a photograph painting would. Look at us all trying to work out what it means!

Tenrec I think that is accomplished, actually. I can't think of a better way to depict 'nothing' - white or black (life or space) seem so much more open to possibility than grey.. And you say it didn't make you feel anything, but it's THAT you remember and it's THAT you're telling us about here. I'm so jealous you've been to the Tate Modern, I've never been!