"Alternative" art first caught my attention a couple of years ago when I visited a small gallery in London that exhibited shit work - literally I mean: sculptures, a lot of them, made by what I recall being a Spanish or South American artist who employs faecis and turn them into art objects. Then there was a dog by the same artist, whom he let die of starvation while calling the process "modern art".
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The Tate has just bought some William Blake hand-made pictures. The inscription for one of them, depicting a naked man clasping his head in pain as he is consumed by flames, reads: "I sought Pleasure & found Pain." My thought exactly every morning when I go to work; I wonder if I also look the same. The museum paid £441m for these pieces.
Sunday 10 January 2010
What Is Art? - 3
Newness and provocations of modernism
Pretty scandalous masturbation scene in "L'Apres Midi d'un Faune" ballet + Stravinsky ballet that also caused a scandal ...
Clive Bell on art and significant form: significant form is the quality common to all works of art
Collingwood, "Principles of Art": works of art are expressions of emotions
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