The Turner Prize

I can sort of understand some of it up to a point. The third 'artist' in the BBC clip I don't get! Nothing physical in the 'installation' but I think you go in and pay/get paid £2 and have to speak to the curator....I'm sorry but that isn't art in my eyes.
 
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Seriously - I cant get my head around what some call art. 25K won with a bunch of rubbish.

Any other thoughts - Maybe some of you more educated can enlighten me?


Here http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-25175225
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I can't understand why it peeves you so much, why not either ignore it or go learn what art is?

25 grand to live on for a year maybe, so well, what do you think an artist lives on thin air?
 
LOL - it doesnt Peeve me at all........Just dont understand the reward for so called ART.....

25 grand to live on for a year maybe, so well, what do you think an artist lives on thin air?
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So ALL the artists that did not win the jumped up prize will starve......Not my concern...what an artist lives on. My challenge is with the absurd nature of the art that seems to win this prize.

I pose the issue that it may well be me - who cant tell ART from his Art.....LOL

As for you :p

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If the artist calls it art then art is what it is.
 
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LOL - it doesnt Peeve me at all........Just dont understand the reward for so called ART.....

So ALL the artists that did not win the jumped up prize will starve......Not my concern...what an artist lives on. My challenge is with the absurd nature of the art that seems to win this prize.

I pose the issue that it may well be me - who cant tell ART from his Art.....LOL

As for you :p

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:D soz ...been here years and I still don't know how to do it. lol

Most of the other artists will be continuing to apply for grants, commissions, or keep meaningless jobs I guess, so they can carry on being artists or starve to death, yes. ...this is a reality of many a career path right.

So ok I'll raise the for reward then; Ignoring the excessive price of the high art market which is not the same game IMO .....Why shouldn't an artist be rewarded for their work? Does a solicitor or estate agent not take a large slice for repeating something practiced again and again, yet an artist produces some original ideas that evolve contemporary art and their ideas actually adds progress to our civilization like science does, where is the line and amount called reward in comparison.
I can maybe prove the point of Art, by asking us all to remind ourselves how beautiful some of the things us humans do are, like we've all seen, watched or heard fantastic emotive performances,, had the hairs on the back of our neck rise, been swamped with great feelings and totally overwhelmed by something artistic we've witnessed? ...well that's all done by art, typically by the progression of art and those who practice the profession. Essentially a word without the work of artists over the centuries would be a very dull and ugly place indeed.
 
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Mmmm - OK BUT my point is the ART submitted for this particular highly prestigious prize is not the Art you have described.

I GET most Art - Indeed I almost understand much of what is in the Tate......"almost" and have been their with a very Arty person - the curator of several galleries and she "£explained" the more obscure stuff to me. Otherwise I would have been in the dark.

Funny story - We, my wife myself her and her husband were visiting the Tate in Liverpool when I cam across a large pile of Humbug sweets - it was called "DAD" - Yes just a pile of sweets piles up against the wall....as I looked a person came up behind me and said you are allowed to take one - and Partake of DAD....Its part of this installation. OK I said TA.
Then our Arty friend walked over and pondered the pile of sweets - I asked her what was it all about - she started to tell me and I said "I'm having one - look out for me, she begged me not too, as I bent down to get one there were a few people now looking and the gasps and head shaking were just laughable - she went bright red (as she was with the art philistine) I popped the sweet in and could not contain myself....Did the artist had an agenda? and was it was to break up the straight faced arty types and take part in the art - however unless you were told what the pile of her late farther favorite sweets meant - you would never know. Just a pile of sweets to me against the wall.

The episode did give me a chance to have a laugh though - and I have never forgotten that particular ART installation - BUT its still not art...to me


I suppose my surprise at the whole thing is not gonna change owt :(

Cuppa and a :jaffa: is in order......and forget the whole sorry sad affair :thumbs:
 
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Funny story - We, my wife myself her and her husband were visiting the Tate in Liverpool when I cam across a large pile of Humbug sweets - it was called "DAD" - Yes just a pile of sweets piles up against the wall....as I looked a person came up behind me and said you are allowed to take one - and Partake of DAD....Its part of this installation. OK I said TA.
Then our Arty friend walked over and pondered the pile of sweets - I asked her what was it all about - she started to tell me and I said "I'm having one - look out for me, she begged me not too, as I bent down to get one there were a few people now looking and the gasps and head shaking were just laughable - she went bright red (as she was with the art philistine) I popped the sweet in and could not contain myself....Did the artist had an agenda? and was it was to break up the straight faced arty types and take part in the art - however unless you were told what the pile of her late farther favorite sweets meant - you would never know. Just a pile of sweets to me against the wall.

The episode did give me a chance to have a laugh though - and I have never forgotten that particular ART installation - BUT its still not art...to me


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Lol, I can almost see those bystanders shuddering at the actions of an obviously lawless character with no idea about art!! ;)

...You know he had an agenda! You'll hopefully be amused to find out you where on his agenda. take a read op on Felix Gonzales-Torres, 'candy'. Because for a brief moment you became an art instillation, and rest assured you completed your role absolutely perfectly.

In fact it wasn't really good art till you picked up that sweet and ate it. :D

Are you surprised now, knowing that you where a piece of art?
 
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I have always known I am fearfully and wonderfully made......:)

As for ART well if someone wants to think of me that way - More fool them, However IF some ARTY type wants to give me sweets and enter the Turner prize with me as the exhibit I'll go halves on the prize money.:lol:


I can see it now, a group of well dressed overly pretentious navel gazers pondering the "meaning" behind the installation.
 
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