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Mrs Magpie
10-09-2003, 22:03
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/3096632.stm


I would like to go and see these....I was ready for a guffaw about this, but actually they're rather beautiful.......
hatboy
10-09-2003, 22:08
broken link...page not found
Donna Ferentes
10-09-2003, 22:14
Try this (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/3096632.stm)?
Mrs Magpie
10-09-2003, 22:27
Thanks Justin...I'd linked to the wrong bit...I'll go and repair it.....
hatboy
10-09-2003, 22:31
Thanks Justin, you sweet boy.

I like the wrappers too. I think this idea is original and poetic. The resonance of the everyday and discarded.

(Eat your heart out, Brian Sewell).
IntoStella
11-09-2003, 09:56
Perhaps we can find an art degree student to come and photograph Brixton's early morning piss puddles.

These, too, arguably have a unique abstract beauty in their diversity of colour, from yellow to green (those TGDAG boys really need to consult a physician) and brown, and varying degrees of cloudness. And on top of their strictly formal qualities (gives a whole new meaning to the Golden Section ;) ), of course, each puddle tells a story -- some happy, some tragic.

At least you wouldn't be able to smell them in a photo.
hatboy
11-09-2003, 11:22
I don't think that is such a ridiculous idea. Art isn't necessarily supposed to be pretty. And if it makes you look at things you'd not normally look at that's part of the point.
edgarlesty
11-09-2003, 11:26
http://fineart.ac.uk/works/bt0005/large.html

these were made by making plaster casts of piss holes in the snow

genius
hektik
11-09-2003, 11:44
is the artists name doner-tello?
IntoStella
11-09-2003, 12:24
Originally posted by hektik
is the artists name doner-tello? :D Actually I think it was Pitta Brueghel. ;)

This is an interesting piece about the 20th Century's many other well known ''piss artists'' ;), including Warhol (of course), Pollock
and Gilbert and George (http://ensemble.va.com.au/array/chap_00.html)
hatboy
11-09-2003, 13:14
I've met Gilbert and George. They're full of shit..... boom boom. :)
han
15-09-2003, 12:34
Originally posted by hatboy
I don't think that is such a ridiculous idea. Art isn't necessarily supposed to be pretty. And if it makes you look at things you'd not normally look at that's part of the point.

Definitely - opening your eyes to the beauty of things you wouldn't normally consider beautiful! :)

Like a great big turd. ;)