Artist Uses Urine to Draw Iron Man

Odbarc

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Grey Carter said:
Artist Uses Urine to Draw Iron Man


A portrait of Iron Man rendered in a toilet bowl using human urine has ... ugh, taken the gold in a Taiwanese art competition.

Andres Serrano [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piss_Christ] can now retire, safe in the knowledge that at least one other artist is using his own bodily fluids to delight art fans and nauseate everyone else. When an art school graduate, Wong Tin Cheung, noticed blood in his urine, he was inspired to visit his studio rather than his doctor.

The artist, who apparently has a sizable collection of Iron Man products, took around two months to find a toilet bowl in the shape of the iconic character's head. Once he found it, he armed himself with a collection of edible pigmentation and, oh god, produced the piece in time for the competition. He used his saliva to touch up the artwork, and he apparently had to keep adding spit while waiting for the competition officials to finish examining the other entries.

The piece, dubbed "Blood Urine Man," was a hit with the judges, who awarded it first place. The competition had over 600 entries from different artists. I was going to end this with an easy "taking the piss" gag, but the fact someone, somewhere, looked at a drawing of Iron Man done in human urine and said "This is good, I like this," has broken something inside me. Congratulations, art.

Source: China Times [http://translate.google.com.tw/translate?sl=zh-CN&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=zh-TW&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.chinatimes.com%2Freading%2F110513%2F112012030600542.html%3Fref%3D15saniye%26v%3D1.12.3.10&act=url]

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Video games, on the other hand, not art.
 

Taddy

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I'm not sure how to feel about this... I'm confused, but that's about it.
 

MrGalactus

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I made an awesome Clayface with my creamed-corn shit, and they never even asked me to present it.


Firstly, gotta be fair, it does look like Iron Man. What I don't get though is how he actually did this. He pissed blood,(his first instinct was to make it look like Iron Man? Ok, whatever) then he spat at it until the blood was around the edges in the Iron Man shape? How to you rearrange something like that so well with your spit? He didn't...use his fingers, did he? In blood-piss?

Secondly, what about this is art? What is piss-blood iron man supposed to mean or express? What cultural significance does it have? Maybe I'm missing the point and this was just a competition where the winner is chosen by how good their gross thing looks after it's made into something, i don't know.

Also, are the eyes there on purpose, or just a coincidental reflection? If they're there on purpose then I give bonus points.
 

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Odbarc said:
Grey Carter said:
Artist Uses Urine to Draw Iron Man


A portrait of Iron Man rendered in a toilet bowl using human urine has ... ugh, taken the gold in a Taiwanese art competition.

Andres Serrano [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piss_Christ] can now retire, safe in the knowledge that at least one other artist is using his own bodily fluids to delight art fans and nauseate everyone else. When an art school graduate, Wong Tin Cheung, noticed blood in his urine, he was inspired to visit his studio rather than his doctor.

The artist, who apparently has a sizable collection of Iron Man products, took around two months to find a toilet bowl in the shape of the iconic character's head. Once he found it, he armed himself with a collection of edible pigmentation and, oh god, produced the piece in time for the competition. He used his saliva to touch up the artwork, and he apparently had to keep adding spit while waiting for the competition officials to finish examining the other entries.

The piece, dubbed "Blood Urine Man," was a hit with the judges, who awarded it first place. The competition had over 600 entries from different artists. I was going to end this with an easy "taking the piss" gag, but the fact someone, somewhere, looked at a drawing of Iron Man done in human urine and said "This is good, I like this," has broken something inside me. Congratulations, art.

Source: China Times [http://translate.google.com.tw/translate?sl=zh-CN&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=zh-TW&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.chinatimes.com%2Freading%2F110513%2F112012030600542.html%3Fref%3D15saniye%26v%3D1.12.3.10&act=url]

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Video games, on the other hand, not art.
Of course!

It's so simple!

Dev's just need to program games on piss canal circuit boards!

Then the medium will be taken seriously.

...

Actually... sarcasm aside, that would be pretty damn creative, clever, and manky all at the same time.
 

Idocreating

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VonKlaw said:
Good god Taiwan, maybe you do deserve to be crushed by Chinese oppresion.

(Just kidding before anyone takes that seriously.)
I dunno, seems like a valid reason to oppress people to me.
 

RustlessPotato

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Imagine if he accidently flushed or puked into the toilet after a drunken night....

Captca: Do Unto Others.... I shall, lord Inglip.
 

Kahunaburger

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Meanwhile, in the Gaming discussion, we're having that monthly argument about whether video games are art or not.

OT: How does the blood/piss stay in the shape of Iron Man's helmet? How does it smell after it's been sitting out for a while? Where is the blood from? So many questions.
 

TheDoctor455

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Scarim Coral said:
I will pray that Kathleen from LRR won't read this (she doesn't like spit).
You jinxed it. Now it'll be in next week's Feed Dump... heh...
a bit apt I guess.

Though I have a question for the "artist" behind this...

WHY!?!?!?!??!?!
 

Frostbyte666

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If this is art then I don't want games to be art. also this ...artist... probably needs to see a pyschtiatrist if this is what he thinks you should do when peeing blood instead of seeing a doctor.