Flaming Toilet

[ZephyrZodiac]

No doubt they'd be happy, but would she feel she'd betrayed her art?

[Regina]

Hmmm.  If you take and make the room that bed is in a bit smaller it looks almost like my sister's old room!  That's not art--that's slobbishness!

I got a huge chuckle when I saw that toilet for the first time.  Of course it made me think of this site.

I know someone asked if a Maxoid might've been making fun of RL art and while I wouldn't be surprised at that, I think it could be just one of those quirky things in a Sim world.

[Renatus]

No doubt they'd be happy, but would she feel she'd betrayed her art?

I know she wouldn't be happy! General consensus is that she should stick to her guns and say that no, really, she did that piece because the idea is funny, or whatever the real reason is. I think she probably will unless she's trying to screw with people's heads - she's taken to saying that cute is the new edgy. 

[ZephyrZodiac]

Well, a lot of people like cute - who's to say they're wrong?

[laeshanin]

Heh, you think that's bad? When my sister was in art college we went to look at the senior projects and I nearly tripped on this 2x4 piece of wood on the floor. I started complaining that they would just leave something like that out in the middle of the floor and went to pick it up when my sister told me it was someone's senior project. 

I took a chance and went to a photographic exhibition at the local Modern Art Gallery(Ikon) in B'ham; went with a friend as we both enjoy that kind of stuff and certainly the publicity merited it. Huge piece of work showing the raddled corpse of a HIV sufferer who had died a few hours previously. We discussed it, as you would, it being somewhat contentious and showing similar style to Klimt, then decided that we would take in the rest of the exhibition. Except that was it.  Eh?

A further look round the gallery revealed another exhibition...joy! A pile of dirt, with some brooms and a couple of shovels. Who says modern art is pretentious?

[ZephyrZodiac]

Who in their right minds even says some of it is Art?

[laeshanin]

Indeed. I would have welcomed seeing some of the photographer's other work as the piece displayed conjoured up some really deep feelings, as I believe Art should. The pile of dirt only managed to conjour my mate and I leaning against a wall having a belly laugh. Which did no good for the artist as he was there talking at a podium to a small, but keen, audience. Some people you just can't take anywhere... 

[witch]

Some people you just can't take anywhere... 

Not twice anyway


I think we had some art here that won a prize - a dirty sheet if I recall. Not even a whole bed. 

Just remembered, the chap in the copy centre, well his wife paints. Sort of like Picasso style, only everything is in the right place. I thought they were quite nice, colourful, maybe I'd get one, couldn't be more than $50 or so...

Nearly had heart failure - $450 she wanted for a painting maybe 2 feet high by 1.5 feet wide. I found one about 6 inches square, streaks of blue-green with a yellow rectangle on it - that was $50. I did manage to keep a straight face as I left.

[ZephyrZodiac]

Paint and canvas are expensive, you know!  So payment by the square inch is probably reasonable, although unrelated to merit!

[hyperCat]

A pile of dirt, with some brooms and a couple of shovels. Who says modern art is pretentious?

My husband was looking into jewellery courses and ultimately decided against one university after seeing their previous students' portfolios. My favourite was the "instant bracelet"--a guy with his arm through the railing at a Tube station.

[ZephyrZodiac]

Clever some of these people may be (or not) but artistic - never!  They've just learned how to open up a new branch of the conman profession!

[Hook]

Paint and canvas are expensive, you know! 

Yeah, but after the artist is finished with them, they're damaged. 

Hook

[ZephyrZodiac]

Not re-usable, anyhow (at least, not the paint!)

[Syera]

Hmmm.  If you take and make the room that bed is in a bit smaller it looks almost like my sister's old room!  That's not art--that's slobbishness!

And by some strange coincidence, that's EXACTLY what I thought of.   

[laeshanin]

I have, on occasion, attempted to try earning a living from art, and used to paint murals for institutions (hospitals, kids homes etc) which is harder than it sounds (age/area appropriateness). I could spend a hundred hours designing and painting the damn thing and get paid jack. People do not want to pay for art, even if it comes under 'not half bad'. A friend, who is a professional (and damn good), refuses to climb onto the current band-wagon and produce the stuff that Witch describes which she could knock out in less than half an hour (I could knock it out in less than half an hour!). Most people prefer to nick down to the local hardware store/Ikea and buy a couple of rather dodgy prints rather than something they will get pleasure from. Then it aint art. Wallpaper substitute, maybe, but not art.

[ZephyrZodiac]

It's like stocking your library (if you're rich enough to have a library) with books bought by the yard, and selected for the binding!

[kewian]

Tracy Emin...



She is one hell of a weird artist, I'm not very fond of her stuff. However, what you said ZZ - art is a point of view, really it boils down to the fact that art is an expression. (I do wish that the A-level art coursework we had required something as easy as this though )

That looks like my bedroom. Hey maybe I can sell my room for big bucks too! Geezz... Ive studied art and usually artwork requires, thought,comtemplation and EFFORT.

[gynarchy]

If that's art, my house is a frickin' masterpiece! Now I don't have to feel bad about not cleaning. I call my creation "Entropy Realized". I might have some stiff compeition for the Turner prize, though.

Every time I see the flaming toilets, I can't help but think of them as the birthplaces for flaming bags of poo. That stuff has to come from somewhere, right?

[kewian]

Anyone seen this?

 


I would love to see what would happen   death by urination?  revenge of the toilet?

[laeshanin]

That would be pretty awesome... A lavvy with jaws that could snap shut on a sim's backside. 

[Zeljka]

I like art as much as the next person, but I really can't stand some of the pretentious BS that goes with it sometimes.

That reminds me...
I was at a stupidly fancy schmancy restaurant that had been converted from an old schoolhouse.
The art work consisted of 'primary school' type paintings. Big triangle-on-square houses, red, blue and yellow...(sort of like the first couple sim paintings) There was a pair of snooty ladies looking at them and I heard one say very seriously 'Those were either done by a young child or a very talented artist'

I couldn't help but laugh out loud at how stupid it sounded. Yep, it was either Picasso, Monet, or a random 4 year old...

[Syera]

That reminds me...
I was at a stupidly fancy schmancy restaurant that had been converted from an old schoolhouse.
The art work consisted of 'primary school' type paintings. Big triangle-on-square houses, red, blue and yellow...(sort of like the first couple sim paintings) There was a pair of snooty ladies looking at them and I heard one say very seriously 'Those were either done by a young child or a very talented artist'

Sad, innit?   

I would've been tempted to say something to the effect of...
"Talented... hmm, yes, very talented.  It's not everyone who can paint in their stomachs - just look at these!  You can tell the artist swallowed the raw materials and vomited these up!"

Art doesn't necessarily have to be something... oh, photographic or something to be interesting.  But when it's a blank piece of canvas (it's been done), a potential movie set for a slob's house, or looks like it came from a kindergarten paint fight... there's just something off, don't you think?

I know art is supposed to be an expression of the soul... but even so, there IS a threshhold when it passes from Expression to Crap.

[RainbowTigress]

Hehe, what is one man's crap is another man's art.

[J. M. Pescado]

Well, you know the saying: If it's not Scottish, it's crap!

[aussieone]

That would be pretty awesome... A lavvy with jaws that could snap shut on a sim's backside. 

Perhaps one could be made for Rentechd....she seems to have a mild obsession with buttocks