Poll: Art or not?

[EeveeElectro]

It's probably art because "it shows the deepest part of her soul and reveals her personality."

I think my room would fetch triple that the state it's in right now.

 

[FolkLikePanda]

My beds worse, why don't I make money off that?

 

[James Hueick]

I don't think so. Its just a bunch of trash on a bed... hell if I it was still the 20th Century I'd try this very thing.

 

[Daverson]

The word "art" is thrown around so much these days it's lost all meaning.

Fortunately, the word "dictionary" hasn't!

"the quality, production, expression, or realm, according to aesthetic principles, of what is beautiful, appealing, or of more than ordinary significance." -Dictionary.reference.com

So, yeah, it's art. It's not *GOOD* art though...

 

[Kasawd]

I wouldn't purchase it(I have my own specimen) but visual arts have always been extremely subjective. I'd assume it's an attempt at capturing commonality between people through providing a place of rest and our habits surrounding said area.

Still, I wondered how the artist knew about my bed.

 

[GonzoGamer]

You have to keep in mind that these are contemporary artists and we won't really see what the best contemporary artists are until they're all dead.

Now-a-days to be a "great artist" you have to have really great connections to the rich people who buy art. You don't actually have to have any sort of aesthetic talent, taste, or metal problems.

So yes it's art but no it isn't great art just because some bozo payed a couple of hundred grand for it.

But in my opinion, if someone makes something (even just arranging something like above) and wants to call it art, then that's what it is. But I also think that they lose all interpretive license over it: if the viewer misinterprets the artists intention, they don't have any right to enforce it. It's art, it's out there, and people are going to feel how the do about it.

 

[Mr. In-between]

People seriously need to stop imitating DaDa. Marcel Duchamp and Hannah Hoch were artists, Tracy Emin and her peers are "artistes": talentless hacks that believe themselves to be artists because they live in cities and go to parties full of pretentious wankers.

The bed was presented as it had been when Emin had not got up from it for several days due to suicidal depression brought on by relationship difficulties.

Maybe you should go listen to some obscure indie rock and blog about it...

 

[Casual Shinji]

Sooo I have been making art every morning, whats next leave the toilet seat up and call it "my toilet".

That is not art, its just a picture, but art like music is 100% subjective.

Well, this picture does subject my head to my desktop.

Maybe that was the artistic point she was trying to make?

 

[Vianyte]

I don't consider everyday objects, clean, dirty or whatever, to be an enjoyable form of art but if someone believes it's worth £150k then whoop de do for them.

 

[^=ash=^]

Art hmm....

If I were to sh*t on someones face and say it was me expressing my belief that they are a sh*t head, would that be art?

I think the term 'art' has lost all meaning since people started forking out utter trash and then calling it expressionist.

 

[chenry]

Sure. Why not. Art is subjective. If she calls it art, then it's art to her. You can't call that trash, and then defend video games as an art form. Art is art in the eyes of the beholder, and that's that.

 

[JdaS]

It's pretty ridiculous. I have trouble appreciating a painted canvas as is. Seeing some prick paying 150,000 for someone's filthy bed while some of us don't even have a roof over our heads, food to eat, etc is just soul crushingly infuriating.

 

[Canadamus Prime]

I would say no. I mean I've got a bunch of junk on a coffee table in front of me right now, can I call that "my table" and sell it for several thousand dollars? I don't think so. ...mostly 'cause I need a lot of that junk.

 

[Oh That Dude]

I would say blah blah subjectivity blah, and then say: to me, it's not really art but it could easily be art to someone else.

 

[esperandote]

the bedsheets were stained with body secretions and the floor had items from the artist's room (such as condoms, a pair of knickers with menstrual period stains...)

Juck... trash.

 

[neoontime]

Wow, that's amazing.....not!

 

[GrinningManiac]

Art is subjective. What you like, what you don't, and what you do and don't consider art is all up to you.

What I DON'T LIKE, though, is the fact that this silly woman has made a crapheap of cash out of something so...EASY. It's not like a painting, it dosen't require a modicum of skill. I could easily recreate it. And, yet, she gets 150,000 quid out of it whilst we're in the middle of a recession and hard-working people in the lower economic band are struggling to make ends meet

She should be given a pat on the back and some sort of certificate for making a good piece of art, but she shouldn't be F*cking PAID for doing literally sweet Fanny Adams

 

[Alex The Rat]

I believe that, if she's able to display this in a gallery and then sell it for a large quantity of money, it is a scam worthy of being called art.

Are the bed and accompanying trash themselves art? Nope.

 

[Ekit]

I don't think it's art, but I don't think it's trash either. I think it's a bed.