Pile of wood = art?

[JoshasorousRex]

http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/Canada/20101130/sackville-sculpture-logger-101130/

TL;DR: Story goes some guy hauls away some wood from an unmarked pile of wood. Turns out its an art sculpture called "Deadwood Sleep". Artist was paid $5000 dollars to build said sculpture.

Is this art?: I personally don't think so. I can pile wood together too. I see piles of wood in front of some homes occasionally but is it art? I guess its not art unless you call yourself an artist and start piling things together calling it art.

I know what I'll do!
1. Call self artist
2. Spit on canvas
3. Call it art
4. Profit

 

[Subzerowings]

It's called dadaism.

Spoiler: This is called influential in The Museum of Modern Art.

Could I make that? Sure. It would be declared art as soon as I declare it as art and that's the point of dadaism.

 

[My name is Fiction]

"Hay my piece of burnt toast looks lie Jesus!"
*sell to pope for a million dollars*

 

[crudus]

No it isn't. If it is then Beavers are the best artists ever.

 

[countrysteaksauce]

Whatever happened to artists like Albrecht Durer?

 

[Monkfish Acc.]

My mum used to fuck a dude who would polish bog oak and then successfully sell it for ridiculous piles of cash as art.

So yes. It is art. Dadaism is fucking ridiculous, but whatever. I suppose anything can be art, as long as someone is willing to call it such.

 

[philosophicalbastard]

It's called dadaism.

Spoiler: This is called influential in The Museum of Modern Art.

Could I make that? Sure. It would be declared art as soon as I declare it as art and that's the point of dadaism.

I really want to see someone riding that thing now.

As art is a subjective medium you can't really set standards for, of course this could be my rage from getting a B- in art this year talking.

 

[DazZ.]

It's not the thing itself that is art, the artistic part convincing other people it's art.

 

[unoleian]

Kind of makes me think of a funeral pyre, actually.


And it's more an environmental piece, there's no real dada aspects to it. Pile in the courtyard of MoMA, cover it with molten lead, set a stuffed chicken riding a horse on top, and call it Florida, and you're getting warmer.

 

[Traun]

If games can be art so can this.

 

[MEEBO17]

I remember I went to a local museum last year, and there was a huge painting of 3 stripes (two orange,one red) on the wall. You could buy it for $4,000. And I was like "the fuck"? Oh, the wood pile? No, defienently not art.

 

[Wintermoot]

even a pile of shit is called art now-adays

 

[teutonicman]

In my eyes, no that pile of wood is certainly not what I consider art.

 

[TeeBs]

If games can be art so can this.

They are just a pile of 1s and 0s

 

[Dags90]

Whatever happened to artists like Albrecht Durer?

Wasn't he the guy who more or less profiteered on religious fervor with prints and then stopped after the Protestants, who frowned on that, came to power? So yeah, the Protestant Reformation happened to him, and he lost his market. Mystery solved, good work gang.

*Albrecht Durer* And I would've gotten away with it, too, if it weren't for you meddling Protestants!

People value technical skill and abstract meaning differently. /Le gasp!

 

[Boneasse]

I know what I'll do!
1. Call self artist
2. Spit on canvas
3. Call it art
4. Profit

Brilliant! Then fake your own death and you'll make millions!

 

[me.vicky]

Art is selection: it is art if you take it and call it art.

Now, is it GOOD art? That's a different question altogether.

 

[default]

Did it take any skill to make? Fuck no.

Does it subversively mean anything through the visuals or form? Fuck no.

Is it impressive or unique? Again, fuck no.

It holds none of the three prerequisites for art. As an artist I'm ashamed of this shit.

IT IS NOT ART.

 

[Thyunda]

My mum used to fuck a dude

That's a different way of starting an argument, I must say.