http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.co...ment-1-4367066
Anyone seen this yet or know what the story behind it is?
I wonder how easy it would be to lift it and take it away? If it doesn't belong to anyone, surely it's fair game!
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Thread: Banksy art in Edinburgh
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15-02-2017 11:23 AM #1
Banksy art in Edinburgh
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15-02-2017 04:05 PM #2This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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16-02-2017 02:02 AM #3
It looks *****.
I don't get "art"...if I made that sculpture and stuck it up in town, with a wee sign "by Andy Easton", nobody would like it, and it'd be taken away and burned prob. But, if it turns out it is a Banksy bit of art, then everyone will want a photo with it.
Same thing, ***** if made by one guy, masterpiece if made by another.
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16-02-2017 07:48 AM #4This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Personally I agree that the 'sculpture' looks crap. In the same way I think taking a few pictures of an unmade bed with used condoms and empty bottles scartered about makes someone a clarty cow as opposed to having artistic merit. I think his point though was that coming up with an idea that provokes a reaction, positive or negative, that no one has thought of before is harder than it seems. It's easy to say 'I could do that' after someone else has done it.PM Awards General Poster of The Year 2015, 2016, 2017. Probably robbed in other years
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16-02-2017 07:59 AM #5This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
I could get 20 mobile phones, all playing Pokemon Go on them, tie them by string to the blades of a ceiling fan, and have it spinning quickly,. I'll call it Now How Do You Catch Them All?
It's original, probably, maybe it's already been done?
It's ***** though. The fact that someone could look at it and tell me it's *****, is provoking a reaction, but it's certainly not art. Again though, I do that, it's nothing, Damien Hirst/insert name of an arty person does it...ooooh its provoking a reaction.
It's all a nonsense.
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16-02-2017 09:23 AM #6This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show QuoteThere is no such thing as too much yarn, just not enough time.
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16-02-2017 09:52 AM #7This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
The key is not to think it's a pile of nonsense and brave it out with utter bull***t, with no sense of self-awareness whatsoever.
I feel Easty's frustration with modern life, the obsession of the youth of today with handheld devices and computer games which is blinding them to the real problems that are going on, i.e. global warming (and our fan is only going to consume more energy, thus worsening the crisis). We are all working so hard (the fast spinning motion of the fan) we are blind to the looming crisis.
Will it be too late, or will be able to catch the problems before they escalate?
What will it take to engage the youth of today and get them interested?
(For the avoidance of doubt, I most certainly do not work in "The arts". But if I did, I'd be singing this clearly talented chap up pronto).
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16-02-2017 11:12 AM #8
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Until you do anything of note on a pretty regular basis nobody is likely to care either way about your art!
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16-02-2017 11:25 AM #9This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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16-02-2017 11:30 AM #10This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Anything I look at and think, "legitimately, I could have done that" isn't genuine art in the "artistic" sense of the word IMO.
Monet, van Gogh, Constable etc - that's art.
All this "provoke a reaction" chat is the preserve of chin-stroking, chino wearing, Gauloise smoking twatty art students who'll grow up to complain bitterly that they're always penniless and misunderstood but faint at the suggestion that maybe they could just get a normal job.
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16-02-2017 11:35 AM #11
I love Banksy's stuff - there's nothing abstract about it, it's accessible to all and can be funny, cheeky, thought provoking - often all 3.
The thing in Edinburgh - even though it's not a patch on Banksy, what's the harm? If you don't like it or even don't care about it there's no harm done, neither to property nor the public purse.
If it gets people talking, all the better.Last edited by Peevemor; 16-02-2017 at 11:38 AM.
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16-02-2017 12:18 PM #12This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show QuoteThere is no such thing as too much yarn, just not enough time.
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16-02-2017 03:21 PM #14
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I really like it as said something to talk about, apparantly it's getting moved hopefully somewhere it can be seen again.
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16-02-2017 05:51 PM #15
On a topical note, Diageo are offering The Monarch Of The Glen by Sir Edward Landseer, for sale at a cool £8m. They have offered the National Gallery of Scotland a 50% discount.
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17-02-2017 12:04 PM #17
Mystery solved
http://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/cu...lved-1-4368886There is no such thing as too much yarn, just not enough time.
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17-02-2017 01:11 PM #18
Ironically, this art piece, good or bad, because of the publicity, infamy, secrecy etc., will have accrued a fair value over the short period it was in the public eye. The artist may have done this for a gesture of love to his wife but, method to his madness, he has carved a wee niche for himself in the art world.
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