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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: gofaster on May 19, 2003, 01:50:48 PM
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Dane Acquitted in Goldfish Blender Case
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) -- A Danish art museum director was acquitted of animal cruelty charges Monday after a court ruled that a display featuring goldfish inside working blenders was not cruel.
The display at the Trapholt Art Museum in Kolding featured 10 blenders and invited visitors to blend the fish if they wanted to. Somebody did in early 2000 - and two goldfish were ground up.
Animals right activists complained that the exhibit was cruel. Museum director Peter Meyer was fined $315 by police, but he refused to pay and went on trial in Kolding, 125 miles west of the capital, Copenhagen.
Judge Preben Bagger ruled Monday that Meyer did not have to pay the fine because the fish were killed "instantly" and "humanely."
During the two-day trial, a zoologist and a representative of blender manufacturer Moulinex said the fish likely died within a second after the blender started.
It was not known who turned the blenders on.
The installation was the work of Chilean-born Danish artist Marco Evaristti.
The Trapholt Art Museum draws about 80,000 visitors annually.
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Neither.
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The exibit itself sounds like a cheap artist cop out. Completely transparent with expected results. Not really art to someone that has taken a psych 101 class.
Let's see the same cop-out artist portray the sentiment or results without actually using the fish/devices.
MiniD
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Someone (artist) was paid, $22000 for an exhibit containing a can of his own excrement. This was in England.
Another artist was paid to runaround and make noises at people while wearing funny clothes, however he did not even have to do this as the weather was bad and news of the event counted as the people experienced the event anyway due to the publicity.
I think I want to be an artist
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Its idiots like that that give us Artists bad name. Le-sigh.
I think the winning entry at a prestigous art competition once was a room full of flashing lights. They had no order to them, the guy just set up a bunch of flashing lights. And it won a lot of money.
Then at the party, he sat down and turned all the trash (plates, napkins, cups... everything) into another 'work of art'. The hilarious thing here is that the janitors came in afterwords and cleaned it up and threw it away. The next day, the museum's curators went through the trash heap to find every piece that had been in the 'great work' and reconstructed it based on photos taken the night before.
Asinine. That's all I have to say about that.
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I'm going to take a picture of my living room and call it...
"Anatomy of a Lazy Man"
Think it could win some awards? ;)
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Originally posted by Nifty
I'm going to take a picture of my living room and call it...
"Anatomy of a Lazy Man"
Think it could win some awards? ;)
In this day and age? Of course. ;)
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Most artists are painters and sculptors. Jobbing artists who paint portraits, sculpt statues and masonry etc.
You can usually tell whether its good art or not by how long it lasts. Cave paintings have lasted at least 8000 years. Sarah Lucas' 'squeak' (two melons and a kipper (smoked fish) attached to a table) has a shelf life of approximately 3 weeks beforer the whole thing is a putrefying mess. An oil painting is certainly good for 300 years or more, depending on the quality of materials used. An oil painting can take 60 years to 'dry'!
When I say good, I mean 'how well made' not 'quality of art' since that is a debate beyond the scope of this thread.
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The blades on the blender go WOooooooooooooooooooooooWoooo o.....
:D
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Why was the blender plugged in? The Art director should be responsible for stupidity since you could accomplish the same effect by not applying electricity to the exibit. You could even unwire the socket and leave it plugged in if that is part of the effect. There is no reason to have it live, unless your going to have hundreds of goldfish around so you can change the exibit everytime someone turns it on. Either that, or I'm missing something.
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Originally posted by bounder
You can usually tell whether its good art or not by how long it lasts. Cave paintings have lasted at least 8000 years. Sarah Lucas' 'squeak' (two melons and a kipper (smoked fish) attached to a table) has a shelf life of approximately 3 weeks beforer the whole thing is a putrefying mess. An oil painting is certainly good for 300 years or more, depending on the quality of materials used. An oil painting can take 60 years to 'dry'!
I agree completely. :) I'm an artist myself, practicing in the fine arts rather than the modern. There's a reason why they're called fine arts. Because they're good, and they last for a very long time. Modern art is relatively new, and what is considered 'modern' changes on whim.
I, of course, am biased. Modern Art makes my blood boil and I could go into a huge tirade on the subject. ;)