What’s up with this?
So an artist come by and says, “Hey, man, I want to paint circles on your houses to make them look 2D!”
And I’d say, “For what possible purpose?”
And the artist would say, “It’s art, man. Art is its own purpose.”
And I’d say, “Here’s some art.” Then I’d punch him in the face. “Now your face looks like a cubist painting. Get a real job, hippie.”
And he’d say, “Ahhhhhhh!”
Actually, it is kind of neat looking.
In this case, he’d say “Sacre bleu!”, not “Ahhhhhhh!”.
I can’t decide which is worse.
Ghey
I’m surprised this wasn’t here in America, where it could have been financed by a taxpayer-funded NEA grant. They finance all sorts of dumb loser drech.
I’d have given my left… well, I’d have given something good to have had him knock at my door and tell me he wanted to paint circles and arcs on my house. I’ve never beaten a dumbass hippie with a nine-iron before.
Freak.
The thought of all the math needed to plot out all that stuff makes my head hurt.
Can we go to war with that town?
And for the record, when some fool comes knocking at your door and says “Hi! I want to deface your lovely, quaint chalet with arcs and circles, so I can achieve notoriety, wealth, and my fifteen minutes of fame,” what kind of mental midget answers “well sure, you go right ahead”? Damb effete, conformist Eurotrash herds.
541NT: if you knew the math used to calculate the correct angle needed to shell that town flat, you might reconsider. US Army artillery companies are full of math geniuses now.
Just last weekend I read Tom Wolfe’s takedown of modern art, “The Painted Word” (great, fast read btw). In it he identifies early cubist works as the beginnings of “modern art”. He particularly focused on Braque and Picasso. Note the 1st two paintings here.
Later the critic Clement Greenberg came up with the theory that modern art is all about flatness. It became a game of who cloud be flatter until eventually you ended up with monochrome painting, unpainted canvases, and eventually, no canvas at all.
Compare the 2D Village work above to the early cubit paintings of houses. See how this “artist” has flattened the three dimensional world. Get it? It’s a comment on Art! Ha, ha, ha. Isn’t that a knee-slapper!
Is it art? No. It’s an elaborate sight-gag.
541NT – No math needed:
1. take a picture
2. draw circles on picture
3. paint buildings with the circles you drew on the picture
4. retake picture
These guys aren’t rocket scientists – and they sure as hell ain’t M.C. Escher.
Actually, if you read the article, the circles were projected onto the village from a vantage point and TRACED. I was taken to task in elementary school for tracing things in art class. If it wasn’t free-hand, it was a steel ruler across the knuckles.
AND it would only look 2D from that particular vantage point. (I am assuming of course from this 2D photograph it’s hard to tell). From anywhere else it looks like a bunch of 3D vandalized houses.
Some people have too much time on their hands.
I wonder if you could get a grant for making art out of hippies faces by punching them
“I wonder if you could get a grant for making art out of hippies faces by punching them.
Stimulas money?
I’d like to invite this clown to my house. When asked about painting circles on it I’d ask for a demonstration. On his chest. Concentric circles. He can use the NRA 100 yard target to trace.
I notice that he didn’t do the trees. Why didn’t he paint the trees, too? What’s up with this guy?
“Kind of neat looking”? What are you, some kind of hippie??
Perhaps this artist could come to America and paint a cross on the landscape to replace that Vetrans memorial in the desert that the ACLU wants taken down.
It wouldn’t offend anyone unless viewed from precisely the right angle but the libs couldn’t complain because it would be “art”.
After you punch him in the face I would douse him with urine! That would be sweet art!
Speakin O Art, I once new a man who could spit over a boxcar.
Just where is this hippie enclave, and can we get within range to hit it with our laser rifles? Art shmart. My doberman stepped in his droppings and walked accross the patio leaving pooh prints and it was far more appealling than this.
That ain’t art. You want art? Here’s art. Art Frahm, that is. Reading this site will make you laugh a baloney sandwich out your nose. To navigate scroll to the bottom & hit ‘next’.
http://www.lileks.com/institute/frahm/indexmain.html
Soon you will learn the truth about celery.
I guess I’m not a real artist. I look at that picture, and I see a photograph with condensation rings on it.