Artists Should Be Allowed to Fail

Re:Artists Should Be Allowed to Fail by AnimalMuppet on Thursday July 11, 2019 @04:09PM (#20415288)

But what was the meaning? The artist's meaning was that art - or what we think of as art - is not actually possible, so a urinal is just as much "art" as anything else is. The art critics (don't know about the gallery) thought that it was pretty, and so they accepted it as art, which horrified the artist, because they completely missed his point.

Source: "Saving Leonardo", by Nancy Pearcey.

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Re:Artists Should Be Allowed to Fail by sandworm101 on Thursday July 11, 2019 @06:02PM (#20416300)

Or he was saying that he thought all the other art there was trash, that a urinal was more interesting. It was also placed on its back, an unussual orientation. So it was a statement on perspective too.

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