Ray Gin Posted January 17, 2023 Share Posted January 17, 2023 Outrage and mockery erupt over ‘obscene’ $10m MLK statue erected in Boston https://uk.news.yahoo.com/outrage-mockery-erupt-over-obscene-153507583.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
I P Knightley Posted January 17, 2023 Share Posted January 17, 2023 I don't know the photo that it's supposed to represent and maybe need to see the sculpture from another angle or two but it looks a pile of shite to me. And I'm a noted art critic 😜 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unknown user Posted January 17, 2023 Share Posted January 17, 2023 20 minutes ago, Ray Gin said: Outrage and mockery erupt over ‘obscene’ $10m MLK statue erected in Boston https://uk.news.yahoo.com/outrage-mockery-erupt-over-obscene-153507583.html It looks more flopped out to me Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JudyJudyJudy Posted January 17, 2023 Share Posted January 17, 2023 Looks like one of those psychological pics you look at then make an interpretation my first thought was 69 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Findlay Posted January 17, 2023 Share Posted January 17, 2023 (edited) Excuse my ignorance regarding art. It just looks like lots of other pieces of modern art I have seen around the world. Most of them I couldn't make head nor tail of either. Edited January 17, 2023 by John Findlay Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neilnunb Posted January 17, 2023 Share Posted January 17, 2023 1 hour ago, Smithee said: It looks more flopped out to me Lucky ******* needing both hands. 😁 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray Gin Posted January 17, 2023 Author Share Posted January 17, 2023 1 hour ago, Smithee said: It looks more flopped out to me Yep, looks like someone trying to heave an enormous flaccid penis over their shoulder. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyNic Posted January 17, 2023 Share Posted January 17, 2023 Wow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray Gin Posted January 17, 2023 Author Share Posted January 17, 2023 The guy blaming the "woke algirithm" is equally amusing tbh. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
henrysmithsgloves Posted January 17, 2023 Share Posted January 17, 2023 The artist???? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
highlandjambo3 Posted January 17, 2023 Share Posted January 17, 2023 Art or broken chair 🤷♂️ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shanks said no Posted January 17, 2023 Share Posted January 17, 2023 First thought was a man's hand and a woman's hand holding up a giant eel. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Japan Jambo Posted January 17, 2023 Share Posted January 17, 2023 1 hour ago, highlandjambo3 said: Art or broken chair 🤷♂️ Well in Geneva it'd be art; Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
highlandjambo3 Posted January 17, 2023 Share Posted January 17, 2023 4 minutes ago, Japan Jambo said: Well in Geneva it'd be art; That’s the bit I don’t get 🤷♂️…… what’s the point Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Japan Jambo Posted January 17, 2023 Share Posted January 17, 2023 2 minutes ago, highlandjambo3 said: That’s the bit I don’t get 🤷♂️…… what’s the point Geneva or the chair? 😁 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adambraejambo Posted January 17, 2023 Share Posted January 17, 2023 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ked Posted January 17, 2023 Share Posted January 17, 2023 23 minutes ago, adambraejambo said: It's actually lovely when you see the picture it relates too. His wife's face looks so deeply happy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kila Posted January 17, 2023 Share Posted January 17, 2023 I wonder if they did the top half and it was too ridiculous, like the Ronaldo statue in Madeira, so they just went with the arms Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tazio Posted January 17, 2023 Share Posted January 17, 2023 34 minutes ago, Ked said: It's actually lovely when you see the picture it relates too. His wife's face looks so deeply happy. Probably happy he was with her instead of at it with someone else. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hughesie27 Posted January 17, 2023 Share Posted January 17, 2023 1 hour ago, adambraejambo said: The video is broken bud. Got another link? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adambraejambo Posted January 17, 2023 Share Posted January 17, 2023 1 hour ago, hughesie27 said: The video is broken bud. Got another link? https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wcvb.com/amp/article/future-mlk-coretta-scott-king-boston-monument-february-23-2022/39193370 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Dastardly Posted January 17, 2023 Share Posted January 17, 2023 It looks like someone holding a jobbie as an offering. Hideous Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hughesie27 Posted January 17, 2023 Share Posted January 17, 2023 10 minutes ago, adambraejambo said: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wcvb.com/amp/article/future-mlk-coretta-scott-king-boston-monument-february-23-2022/39193370 🤣 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
superjack Posted January 17, 2023 Share Posted January 17, 2023 6 hours ago, neilnunb said: Lucky ******* needing both hands. 😁 Doesn't everyone? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pans Jambo Posted January 17, 2023 Share Posted January 17, 2023 Are you some sort of elevated human if you stare at shite like that and “get-it” or feel a “connection” or whatever? I just dont get any of it. I remember reading about an “art installation” in the Tate Modern in London. It was a black bin liner with rubbish spilling out of it. The cleaner came along and took it away and dumped it. It was meant to be worth thousands and the “artist” was furious. Loadapish! 3 ducks going up the wa’ was real art!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neilnunb Posted January 17, 2023 Share Posted January 17, 2023 55 minutes ago, superjack said: Doesn't everyone? well I didn't want to speak for others 😁 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shooter McGavin Posted January 18, 2023 Share Posted January 18, 2023 9 hours ago, Pans Jambo said: Are you some sort of elevated human if you stare at shite like that and “get-it” or feel a “connection” or whatever? I just dont get any of it. I remember reading about an “art installation” in the Tate Modern in London. It was a black bin liner with rubbish spilling out of it. The cleaner came along and took it away and dumped it. It was meant to be worth thousands and the “artist” was furious. Loadapish! 3 ducks going up the wa’ was real art!!! Have to admit, a lot of art to me just seems like pompous guff. Paintings like this selling for $300 million 😂 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spellczech Posted January 18, 2023 Share Posted January 18, 2023 12 hours ago, Ked said: It's actually lovely when you see the picture it relates too. His wife's face looks so deeply happy. Indeed - strange that that was the part that was deemed unnecessary... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spellczech Posted January 18, 2023 Share Posted January 18, 2023 13 minutes ago, Shooter McGavin said: Have to admit, a lot of art to me just seems like pompous guff. Paintings like this selling for $300 million 😂 The bit I've never understood is how, once you get the monicker "artist" applied to you, suddenly everything you do and everything you ever did is then "art" and has value...like when you see the preparatory sketches for a work of art and somehow they have value too as art in their own right...Why? Even if the "art" is aesthetically unappealing... Surely must all be just a con to make money out of purposeless stuff? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bindy Badgy Posted January 18, 2023 Share Posted January 18, 2023 22 minutes ago, Spellczech said: The bit I've never understood is how, once you get the monicker "artist" applied to you, suddenly everything you do and everything you ever did is then "art" and has value...like when you see the preparatory sketches for a work of art and somehow they have value too as art in their own right...Why? Even if the "art" is aesthetically unappealing... Surely must all be just a con to make money out of purposeless stuff? https://complyadvantage.com/insights/art-money-laundering/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
I P Knightley Posted January 18, 2023 Share Posted January 18, 2023 14 hours ago, Dick Dastardly said: It looks like someone holding a jobbie as an offering. Hideous I'll admit, if I did a jobby on that scale, I'd be offering it up to the gods. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Dastardly Posted January 18, 2023 Share Posted January 18, 2023 3 minutes ago, I P Knightley said: I'll admit, if I did a jobby on that scale, I'd be offering it up to the gods. And you'd be banned from drinking Midouri Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cosanostra Posted January 18, 2023 Share Posted January 18, 2023 4 hours ago, Shooter McGavin said: Have to admit, a lot of art to me just seems like pompous guff. Paintings like this selling for $300 million 😂 I think it's pretty cool but more like £250 cool than £300m cool. Doesn't really look that hard to do but it probably is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
New Town Loafer Posted January 18, 2023 Share Posted January 18, 2023 Horrific. Guy was a wank, too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redjambo Posted January 18, 2023 Share Posted January 18, 2023 13 hours ago, Pans Jambo said: Are you some sort of elevated human if you stare at shite like that and “get-it” or feel a “connection” or whatever? I just dont get any of it. I remember reading about an “art installation” in the Tate Modern in London. It was a black bin liner with rubbish spilling out of it. The cleaner came along and took it away and dumped it. It was meant to be worth thousands and the “artist” was furious. Loadapish! 3 ducks going up the wa’ was real art!!! I was with you until that part. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray Gin Posted January 18, 2023 Author Share Posted January 18, 2023 21 hours ago, Japan Jambo said: Well in Geneva it'd be art; 20 hours ago, highlandjambo3 said: That’s the bit I don’t get 🤷♂️…… what’s the point Broken Chair was created to symbolise opposition to landmines and cluster bombs ahead of the Ottawa Treaty in the 90s. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
highlandjambo3 Posted January 18, 2023 Share Posted January 18, 2023 3 minutes ago, Ray Gin said: Broken Chair was created to symbolise opposition to landmines and cluster bombs ahead of the Ottawa Treaty in the 90s. Well that’s cleared it up 🤔 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Watt-Zeefuik Posted January 18, 2023 Share Posted January 18, 2023 2 minutes ago, highlandjambo3 said: Well that’s cleared it up 🤔 Landmines blow the feet off of children. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
highlandjambo3 Posted January 18, 2023 Share Posted January 18, 2023 2 minutes ago, Led Tasso said: Landmines blow the feet off of children. And your point is? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pans Jambo Posted January 18, 2023 Share Posted January 18, 2023 3 hours ago, redjambo said: I was with you until that part. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pans Jambo Posted January 18, 2023 Share Posted January 18, 2023 4 hours ago, Dick Dastardly said: And you'd be banned from drinking Midouri Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Watt-Zeefuik Posted January 18, 2023 Share Posted January 18, 2023 On the statue, it's just really badly thought out and executed IMO. From the right viewing angle it looks fine but art and design schools don't teach a theory of situation these days, it's all about the specifics of the artifact itself, and it leads to nonsense like this. (Sorry, I had to take art and architecture theory a few years ago as a requirement and now I have Takes.) Modern art has become obsessed with "indexes" that point to something that you're supposed to think about. The sculpture is supposed to point to the photograph. So it's not a representation of the Kings, it's a reference to a photograph of a moment in time that's somehow supposed to make you think about the Kings. I don't think it's somehow disrespectful or obscene, it's just a really shit memorial that's up its own arsehole rather than engaging with Dr. King's outstanding and challenging writings (of which most people know nothing other than the "dream" speech). But then it's just another piece of shit public art in a shit city full of smug dicks who are up their own arseholes, so I suppose in that way it's fitting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Japan Jambo Posted January 18, 2023 Share Posted January 18, 2023 21 minutes ago, Ray Gin said: Broken Chair was created to symbolise opposition to landmines and cluster bombs ahead of the Ottawa Treaty in the 90s. Thanks Ray, everyday a school day 👍 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
I P Knightley Posted January 18, 2023 Share Posted January 18, 2023 7 hours ago, Led Tasso said: Landmines blow the feet off of children. And any chairs that happen to trigger them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Watt-Zeefuik Posted January 19, 2023 Share Posted January 19, 2023 1 hour ago, I P Knightley said: And any chairs that happen to trigger them. A sculpture of a kid with his foot blown off would be a bit too macabre for public art, doncha think? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeartsandonlyHearts Posted January 19, 2023 Share Posted January 19, 2023 On 17/01/2023 at 08:58, John Findlay said: Excuse my ignorance regarding art. It just looks like lots of other pieces of modern art I have seen around the world. Most of them I couldn't make head nor tail of either. A bit of head and some tail is exactly what it looks like Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gards Posted January 19, 2023 Share Posted January 19, 2023 16 hours ago, Led Tasso said: On the statue, it's just really badly thought out and executed IMO. From the right viewing angle it looks fine but art and design schools don't teach a theory of situation these days, it's all about the specifics of the artifact itself, and it leads to nonsense like this. (Sorry, I had to take art and architecture theory a few years ago as a requirement and now I have Takes.) Modern art has become obsessed with "indexes" that point to something that you're supposed to think about. The sculpture is supposed to point to the photograph. So it's not a representation of the Kings, it's a reference to a photograph of a moment in time that's somehow supposed to make you think about the Kings. I don't think it's somehow disrespectful or obscene, it's just a really shit memorial that's up its own arsehole rather than engaging with Dr. King's outstanding and challenging writings (of which most people know nothing other than the "dream" speech). But then it's just another piece of shit public art in a shit city full of smug dicks who are up their own arseholes, so I suppose in that way it's fitting. Stick your anti-Boston chat right up your Durham NC Led. Great city and people. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Herbert. Posted January 19, 2023 Share Posted January 19, 2023 I like that highland cow art. And the scream is cool but generally it's shite. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Watt-Zeefuik Posted January 19, 2023 Share Posted January 19, 2023 8 hours ago, Gards said: Stick your anti-Boston chat right up your Durham NC Led. Great city and people. I will keep my anti-Boston chat to the very end. You keep your Beantown in your way and I'll slag it in mine. Absolute steaming pile of arseholes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gards Posted January 19, 2023 Share Posted January 19, 2023 1 hour ago, Led Tasso said: I will keep my anti-Boston chat to the very end. You keep your Beantown in your way and I'll slag it in mine. Absolute steaming pile of arseholes. Well if they've got you thinking like that, they've done something right in my book Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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