Accidental Cleanliness Destroys $1.1m Art Installation

[godofallu]

Isn't the entire point of art like that so billionaire's can give people giant million dollar gifts without having to pay the ridiculous 50% gift tax rate?

Oh hello IRS no I didn't give the guy 1.1 million dollars, it was a legitimate business exchange. As such the only tax that applies is the 5.5% state rate. Isn't this beautiful? Cough cough.

Anyways i'd be interested in finding out if the artist was the son of a billionaire, or had a lot of rich friends.

PS: I think anything can qualify as art. That to me looks like a pile of shit, but if someone enjoys that then great. So why do people need to hate on things I enjoy, like fantasy books and videogames? Come on world it's time to get over hating people because they have different worldviews.

 

[CUnk]

Would anyone have even noticed if no one said anything? I doubt it.

 

[d43dr34m3r]

Just rename it to It Starts Dripping From The Ceiling & Is Then Mopped UP, a meditation on the futility of trying to keep our world clean and organized in the face of Mother Nature's beauty and chaos. We must either give up and live in harmony with nature or work at destroying nature itself, along with its beauty, down to the art found in the stain of a dried up rain puddle.

So yeah, pretty much anything's art, as long as you consider it to be so. Sure, the people valuing it at $1 million+ are ridiculous, but so are you in this thread who will insult entire generations of art because you don't like it, then ***** when people don't consider games art because the most popular ones are about a random white guy killing thousands of foreigners for some randomly justifiable reason or a random stereotype killing the prostitute he just slept with in the back of the car he used to run her over.

 

[Daystar Clarion]

I have to ask was the cleaning lady mental or something? Honestly you would have to have brain damage not to understand that that was art and not meant to be cleaned.

I don't know.

I'd certainly throw that piece of crap away.

Art my arse.

 

[Smooth Operator]

If said art is so damn bad that a cleaner can't see the difference between it and actual trash, I'd dare say the 'artist' effed up somewhere along the way and pretty damn badly at that. Yet games still aren't considered art heh.

EDIT: Looking at the picture that the one above me posted of said 'artpiece', I have to say I've seen my young sibling do far better and he's by no means an artist in any sense of the word.

He may do better but can he sell it better, for $1.1 mil you haveto be quite the scam artist

 

[Earnest Cavalli]

Perhaps it's easier to understand with a description of the piece (for whatever reason, the 'net seems to be completely devoid of any actual pictures).

Now that it's news there are, apparently. It's not too late to edit the OP

A) That image is copyrighted by the Guardian, I believe. I'd rather not be sued.

B) That's the piece as it exists currently. There are no images of the piece as it was originally. Seriously, I looked for like half an hour.

 

[Outlaw Torn]

$1.1 for beige paint? Surely he could just pop down to B&Q and buy a small tin of Dulux. Obviously it wouldn't display man's inhumanity towards man in a beige-paint-on-the-floor kind of way, but the poncy twats who think it's worth so much would just pay even more and come up with an equally bollocks motivation behind the piece.

I'm not bitter or anything, just because the Tate Modern rejected my fifteen foot high canvas piece that said 'If you're reading this, you're a prick' which displays man's inhumanity towards man in a generic-insults-on-a-bit-of-canvas sort of way. I'll just find four trillion pounds from another gallery.

I wonder how much the bucket is worth now that it is full of art? There is a german cleaner out there with the worlds most artistic mop!

 

[PureChaos]

anyone else just think of the Mr Bean film?

 

[Hero in a half shell]

I hate to say it, as it is quite a cliched meme... but

AND NOTHING OF VALUE WAS LOST!

The thing is, I think the fact the cleaning lady destroyed the art piece because she thought it was trash gives bigger pause for thought than whatever the stupid thing was supposed to represent. Well done. She should get a raise.

(also £1.1 million? are you kidding me? that means someone decided the cheap wood trellis and dried paint was worth more than all the property on my Street. Reign your neck in.)

 

[Maclennan]

i hate modern artists.

I hate the successful ones, the rest are fun to mock

 

[Beryl77]

I don't blame the cleaning woman. I wouldn't have been able to distinguish this from normal trash and dirt.
It just makes so little sense. People can call everything art, even things like this but no, games aren't there yet.

 

[Gamblerjoe]

Honestly, I'm surprised something like this hasn't happened before. Or maybe it was...

Swept under the rug?

Boosh!

I read a story about some guy who made a bunch of complex pictures with chalk on a chalkboard. supposedly it was worth a fortune before some chick erased it all.

...

Personally, I think that that this was either insurance fraud, or a case of a bunch of art critics randomly deciding that some piece of shit is worth tons of money. Also, in either case, if the person who fucked it up wasn't properly informed before they set about what they were doing, it is the artist's or museum's fault.

 

[Doc Theta Sigma]

When I was studying art at GCSE, we went to a local art exhibition at the local university. It was a subject I picked as a filler so I had sod all interest. Most of it was paintings or sculptures, so I guess it was art. But - and I'm not shitting you here - one piece was just a rusty car engine that had been wrapped in barbed wire. And it had apparently won an award at the university, as the smug **** that had created it was quick to tell anyone that so much as glanced at it.

Modern art is bullshit.

 

[Kilo24]

The best proof of why games aren't art: they cannot be mistaken for a dried puddle.