Is this art?

[dittohead not!]

http://articles.news.aol.com/news/article.adp?id=20060320053509990005&ncid=NWS00010000000001

or is it just silly and disgusting?

[lord tammerlain]

Depends on the number of attractive women. An attractive women is art. A fat hairy man in a speedo is disgusting

[Confucius]

Bah, I swear these days anything can be art.

[poly_nightmare]

Depends on the number of attractive women. An attractive women is art. A fat hairy man in a speedo is disgusting

Except the fat hairy man won't be in a speedo. He would be naked. And that would be cruel and unusual punishment.

[Riddley]

Bah, I swear these days anything can be art.
And what is wrong with that? Art is whatever you want it to be.
That doesn't mean that we should pay thousands of dollars to own it, however.
A whole lot of bare people might be art, maybe.

[Dangerrmouse]

Many Americans are too buttoned up to appreciate him. :p It's the puritan origins.... :eek:

[Art of War]

Ha! you think thats bad? Check out this (http://regressoaofuturo4.blogs.sapo.pt/arquivo/Marcel%20Duchamp%20-%20Toilet%20ready-made%20-%20Dada-Movement%20-%201917%20-T1.JPG) crap. Yeah, it is considered at.

Actually, Tunick's work is quite beautiful.

[Craig]

Ooh, the most influential piece of art from the 20th century!

I have noticed, however, that for an unfortunately long time, fine artists in general have often been obsessed with the idea of questioning "what is art?" and always trying to try out something new, weird and unusual. The reason I think that much of this movement is unfortunate is because its cliched as hell and tired. These ideas about testing art and doing strange things were around 80 years ago. In fact, art has always been "tested" some degree, but its really only in the 20th century where the experimentation seems to have become the end in and of itself, rather than the means to an end. What's wrong with doing "more conventional art"? Why does everything need to be an experiment all of the time?

I realize that I am big time over-generalizing here. There's plenty of artists who are not afraid to spend time doing more traditional forms of art. And many artists are perfectly content in doing this. Yet, even so, there is still a major movement within Fine Arts to do increasingly unusual, bizarre and strange forms of art, for the sake of experimentation, or novelty, or shock value. While I don't think this style of art should die out altogether, I think we need to move on. We've already spent a lot of time in this particular paradigm; let's find something else to explore.

[nogoodname90]

In my opion art has gone down the drain, only ritch fat snubs buy it to just be able to say that they own it. They dont even care about the beuty of it. Most art has no talent also. Like the art were people just throw paint on a canvous and sell it or that stupid photo. Ive been in photo and surealism is art, abstract is art, nude pictures is not art.

[The_Comedian]

Well, I do think it is art.

At the same time, art lies in the eye of the beholder and seldom will there be any form of art (painting, film, photo, sculpture,...) that gets praised by everyone.

[jamesrage]

http://articles.news.aol.com/news/article.adp?id=20060320053509990005&ncid=NWS00010000000001

or is it just silly and disgusting?

I think real artist should sue these frauds for defaming artist all over the world.

[faithfulservant]

All I've got to say about this is that the models should be warned to take care with what they eat prior to posing.

[Confucius]

And what is wrong with that? Art is whatever you want it to be.
That doesn't mean that we should pay thousands of dollars to own it, however.
A whole lot of bare people might be art, maybe.

Nah man there is a point at which you cross, like I went to the modern art musuem in Paris, and what a load of crap that was.

[patrickt]

"Art" and "silly and disgusting" are not mutually exclusive terms. Something could be silly and disgusting and still be art.

[Riddley]

"Art" and "silly and disgusting" are not mutually exclusive terms. Something could be silly and disgusting and still be art.
Patrickt, I have seen a book on art from Oaxaca,and it looked fabulous. I agree with your comment about art in general though. It is not just about kittens and puppies.