The fact that it creates such strong emotions and deep discussions is proof that it’s indeed art.
Can you imagine all the sad artists out there who have never managed to piss anyone off?
‘Oh that’s a nice little drawing! Let’s put it on the fridge next to your siblings all-As report card.’ == Total artistic failure
This implies internet trolls are artists
That would be a kind of performance art.
Or that definition of art fucking sucks.
Is David Thorne not doing a kind of performance art here? He’s being deliberately obtuse, and he’s turned it into comedy.
Sure, some people can absolutely elevate trolling by another name into art, but by not incorporating skill or emotional expression into the definition you’re accepting that tweens yelling slurs at the internet is art because it becomes solely about provoking a response.
The funny thing about the banana taped to a wall is, that it is art simply by encouraging people to discuss what art even is.
Pretty genius if I Am going to be honest.
That and the majority of people don’t know the title and if they did they would understand the humor imbedded within the work a little better.
When I teach conceptual art in my class I always compare this to Duchamp’s Fountain. Everything that’s old becomes new again.
As a work of conceptual art, it consists of a certificate of authenticity with detailed diagrams and instructions for its proper display.
I love it.
Taste is subjective!
“I can get behind that.”
I like this art! 😄
“You absolut degenerate homunculus, do you have any idea…”
If you’re talking about it, it’s art. It might be annoying, ridiculous art but it’s art.
Every human choice can be considered art, honestly, however dull or trivial it may seem. ¯\(ツ)/¯
unironically the take
The banana is art
I love content not viewable, it’s my favourite content
But is it art?
Content not viewable in your region.
It’s modern art. And as everyone knows, most modern art is money laundering with extra steps. It’s totally something Ratigan would do.
“Art is about provocation of emotions.”
“Here’s a thing that made to provoke emotions, and it obviously does since we’re talking about it”
“No, not like that”modern art ended in c 1970, you’re thinking of postmodern art
also, postmodern art just describes a movement; only a subset of it is created with illegitimate intent.
further, art of any era can and has been used for laundering, in the same way that mattresses or real estate may be used :)
also after some quick googling, i learned that the taped banana artwork Comedian by Maurizio Cattelan is from 2019! it came out closer to COVID lockdown than we are now.
idk if this was shocking to anyone else, i always pictured it as having been created in ~2009!
