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Old 01.03.2010, 05:21 PM   #1
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i've always considered that question to have been definitively answered/rendered moot/rendered mute in 1917 by r. mutt...

consequently i've always considered to be hopelessly uninformed responses to works of art along the lines of:

"my three year old can paint better than that"
"i could do that"
"that's stupid/pointless/meaningless/just a bunch of random images strung together by a pretentious hack in order to confuse us"
"that's not art, it's just a urinal/blank canvas/bunch of felt/an apple/pile of sand/square piece of plate steel/piece of rope/some broken glass in a box/a shark in fromaldahyde/a tent/a lawn chair/a bunch of canoes/etc/etc"



but then, while taking a photo of this bunch of canoes by nancy rubins, i noticed a long yellow hose running along the wall of the museum...


 




 



after looking around for a minute for clues i found this plaque that indicated that the museum had purchased the long yellow hose from a mexican hose salesman in 1996.


 



... i've never before felt an impulse to immediately dismiss a piece of art as worthless/not art. there's always been something there that i could at least get a critical/interpretive handle on... some real or imagined more or less vague intention towards meaning that i could at least sink my teeth into and then accept or reject on those terms... at least engaging the work before saying that i don't like it/think it's poorly executed/downright idiotic...

but this absolutely refuses to be anything other than simply a hose... is that the point? more duchamp than duchamp? urinal as urinal and not readymade? if so, why is the hose not in use as a hose?


does anyone else "get it"?
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Old 01.03.2010, 05:25 PM   #2
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Old 01.03.2010, 05:31 PM   #3
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I like how the title tells you what it is. Really gets to the heart of the concept.
Yes, I think it is perfectly OK for both the uninformed rube and the sophisticated modern art appreciator to call shenanigans on this particular acquisition.
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Old 01.03.2010, 05:42 PM   #4
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if i say its art then it is.
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Old 01.03.2010, 05:47 PM   #5
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I say it is art. Whether it is good art or not is another matter.

Orozco has a tendency to do things like this. His 'Home Run' piece is a good example, where he placed oranges in the windows of a building across the road from the gallery.

His work makes me smile. I quite like it, in a way.
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Old 01.03.2010, 05:53 PM   #6
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Another one of those subjective concepts that can be endlessly deconstructed until everyone is nauseous and the concept no longer has meaning. And is also trumped by werewolf movies.
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Old 01.03.2010, 05:54 PM   #7
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i've been studying this question for days now and i have an exam about it in two day so i really REALLY don't feel the need to start discussing it here.
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Old 01.03.2010, 05:56 PM   #8
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so...this can be a great way to study for you exam...
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i've been studying this question for days now and i have an exam about it in two day so i really REALLY don't feel the need to start discussing it here.
There are courses for this? I hope you're not paying for this education.
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Old 01.03.2010, 06:03 PM   #10
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the point of art is that it exists when you call it. whether you like it and whatever merit it carries is something else.

often times with art pieces it can help to look at the context of the original creation and the rest of the artists body of work. As much as there are wonderful paintings which are aesthetically pleasing and very easy to understand, and stand well alone without any need for comparitive pieces or knowledge of art movements.. because their intention is to depict a scene in a certain way.. other pieces like sculpture or instalation art, even some paintings/ers are often more in depth and can require some background knowledge of the artists intentions, especially if they were created years before. I honestly don't consider this a problem when discovering a piece. There are lots of things in this world that contain more than just what is on the surface..
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There are courses for this? I hope you're not paying for this education.
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Old 01.03.2010, 06:10 PM   #12
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I wrote a big long reply to this but deleted it because when I read it back all I could see were invisible words saying 'shut up you boring pretentious prick'. In essence though, I agree with Hip Priest on this one.
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Old 01.03.2010, 06:12 PM   #13
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I wrote a big long reply to this but deleted it because when I read it back all I could see were invisible words saying 'shut up you boring pretentious prick'. In essence though, I agree with Hip Priest on this one.

Funnily enough, I wrote and deleted a long response too, before settling on the thing you agree with.

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Old 01.03.2010, 06:15 PM   #14
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I personally don't know this artist, but even looking quickly;

"Orozco's exploration of the use of video, drawings, and installations in addition to his photographs and sculptures, allows the audience's imagination to explore the creative associations between oft-ignored objects in today's world. His work permits a rarely allowed interaction between the artwork and the audience."

Seemingly his intention is to break down physical/sociological barriers which can exist between artist work and audience, in a playful manner. I would say such a piece does that quite well. Ordinary objects can be often ignored and considered very humble, and placing items in such a way to give them high cultural significance has been popular since da da, perhaps earlier.

He is asking you to look at the item in a different light. Putting something usually considered quite worthless into a place usually reserved for expensive, exclusive, elitist items. It is quite subtle though, because the item does not have a reserved plinth or space. It's playful.. humorous.. from what I can see. Art does not have to be world changing. Can be, sure, but does not have to in order to be considered art.
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Old 01.03.2010, 06:18 PM   #15
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We've had a trillion threads where this subject has been touched. Is it art? Personally I don't think it is, then again if you show it in an art gallery apparently it is. I'm more curious about the motivations for defending such works, rather than worrying about my thoughts on them.
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Old 01.03.2010, 06:27 PM   #16
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You're either an artist, or you're a craftsman.

Also... Everything is art.

Also.. yellow hoses rule.
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Old 01.03.2010, 06:30 PM   #17
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I'm not sure you should be following the arts if you really consider this an overly difficult piece to comprehend...

I say that in the nicest way possible..
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The 'is it art?' question is a hole that I've learned to step over.
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I'm not sure you should be following the arts if you really consider this an overly difficult piece to comprehend...

I say that in the nicest way possible..

Ha! Brilliant.

Like Herrs Rail and Priest, I wrote a massive reply that I deleted, but I think phoenix has about got the measure above.
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There are courses for this? I hope you're not paying for this education.

i study illustration and we get a few theory classes on art history, basic philosophy, anthropology and art philosophy. what we do in this last class is look at different views on the subject of art and what defines art, what different types of people call 'art' etcetera etcetera. it's actually quite interesting to discuss, and i'm enjoying this part of my education as well as the rest.
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