modern art: some prat keying cars

I'm sure most folk in the UK have heard somethign about this by now.

Some arsehole "artist" decided he'd go around glasgow and london keying cars and taking photos of them for an exhibition and actually said the people who's cars got keyed should be grateful for being part of his "creative process"

I'd have destroyed the prick if I found him at my car. he done it over at the botanical gardens in the west end up here and I'll put money on very few if any of the cars parked over there were worth less thsn £25,000

I hope the strathclyde and london cops do him for criminal damage and profiting from crime.

OK, tomorrow I'm going to go out, kill as many people as I can and photograph them in the sake of art.

I still can't believe how someone won the award a few years back for turning a light on and off in a room.

To me art can be something expressive, but when it is I think that it can only mean something to the artist. Most people can apreciate a talented artist who paints or sculpts something and it looks realistic, I think that takes talent and it can be something nice to look at.

Someone who throws some paint at a canvas and wins an award for it is just exploiting the fools who would pay to see it.

well i think jackson pollock done some really interesting stuff and alot of picasso's sketches are pretty abstract but they still took the form of someone sitting down with paper and somethign to put on it and thinking I;'m going to express it here.

modern art seems to be a case of how you "express" it and not what you express.

and i'm pretty sure the cops will be dealign with him in due time because I doubt anyone who's found out about this won't press charges.

^^^Well, if you can get fools to pay good money for the privilege of looking at paint you've thrown around, why not?

Returning to the guy damaging cars, I hope he picks the wrong car and gets the tar beat out of him. That'd teach him a lifelong lesson about destroying property.

Adrian

yeah it woulda been brilliant if he done paul ferris' or someone who owned one of the clubs up there.

As for the original comment. I used to think a Pollock was just random paint threw onto a canvas (which in a way it is) but after a bit of observation it turns into more. It's basically a "history" of what he done when he was painting it.

It's not some landscape or portrait you can pretty much see how he made it, what colours flow over the top of each other, how intense of laid back he was when doing it....

I'm no art afficiando by any stretch of the imagination but i can appreciate a good piece when i come across it (even some modern art)

A painting does not need to look realistic to be extremely artistic. In fact, personally, I am not into that at all, but I like abstract art much better cause I don't get tired of looking at it and I seem to see different things at different times. It's awesome

As Jim pointed out, there is sooo much more to good art than what you see at first sight. Though keying a car isn't one of them.

As I said I do believe that something very expressive can be good, but how can anyone else look at something like that and have any idea what the artist was feeling when they did it? If I where doing something like that I wouldn't want others to understand, I'd have done it for myself.

I don't think it is the point to know what the artist was feeling. The point is how it makes the observer feel and how it speaks to others. If it does, go buy the painting, if not, don't. I feel the same way about music. I really don't want to know why a songwriter was writing a certain song and what he was trying to express, I just care what I read into it and how it touches me. Everything else could only be a disappointment (or at least often is).

I heard this on the news, the police said even though he has admitted to doing this they cant arrest him until someone comes forward and reports their car has been damaged !

Dawn

folk have started coming forward now that they know who done it