ForumGarden

The winner of this years Turner prize is a guy who turned a shed into a boat then back into a shed!

Can you beliieve he actually won £25000 for this piece of "Art"? :-2

Hey-Ho, whatever floats yer boat eh?





http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jh ... altop.html

I like the way he describes his work:

"the physical manifestation of a thought process"
and it actually makes sense to me, (when usually very little of the art world does) but I don't know how it can be called true art. Really weird, and very interesting, Abbey. Do you follow the goings-on in the art world?

He's just copying the life and work of Arthur "Two Sheds" Jackson, who was far more interesting.

I once disassembled my barbie house and then moved across town with my parents and reassembled it. All with the ripe old age of 7. Now that's genius :yh_idea

When I see some of the rubbish that wins the Turner Prize, I think poor old Turner must be turning (Turnering?) in his grave.



But then the question 'what makes art good' is a very subjective thing, as is the question of what actually defines something as 'art' in the first place.



Personally, I think awarding £25 000 to people who produce stuff like this just discredits the awarding committee. And the Turner Prize itself, which is a great shame.



But then, what do I know?

Far Rider wrote: In my town...

We have a cultural center... and "art" adorns the grounds.. there is a real nice bronze statue of two children outside the Library area... but for the center peice of this great place representing our city is a giant "L" laying on its back... its purple, about 17-20 foot long and about 4 foot wide the "leg" sticks UP about 10-12 feet.

When we first moved here I thought, What the heck? Why not a V? (city's name start with a V)....

So I have to find these things out... so I called the city and asked... I got tossed around to 5 people before I was told that... "it was free dont knock it"

So like any good citizen I just wonder why we didnt just plant a darn tree there.


Cleveland has you beat. Talk about ugly!!!!!!!!! but it too was F R E E

http://www.city.cleveland.oh.us/around_ ... stamp.html

Last years winner was a students unmade bed, WTF!!

Far Rider wrote: ahahaha where did you get that from the rubber stamp factory?
Yeah, laugh. You don't have to be embarassed by it or look at it..........

SnoozeControl wrote: Lemme try this again, the first photo was too big...



This sits in the middle of the salt flats when you first cross from Nevada into Utah. I'm not sure what the symbolism is...




WHAT A LOAD OF BALLS! :wah: