Visiting Landan Tan. Page 6
Quote: Godot Taxis @ September 21 2010, 2:10 PM BSTI had to dismember a friend the other day and it was unbelievably awful. Rubbish, old bone saw and his penis with some paprika sprinkled on it. When I finally finished chewing it my teeth and jaw needed to lie down.
What kind of friend are you?
Quote: Aaron @ September 20 2010, 12:31 PM BSTP.S. The Tate Modern is almost unadulterated shite. Don't even consider wasting your time.
A quote taken from the TM website and undeniably true. It's a stagnant, intellectual wasteland, masquerading as the country's cultural motherlode. A shithole filled with joke art.
Probably the worst thing about it is that everyone thinks it's great - a bit like KFC.
There is of course the odd good bit in there. There was a brilliant Kandinsky exhibition.
There was an amazing Beckmann exhibition. I went three times and was asked get up by an attendant for sitting on the floor in front of one triptych - but the TM doesn't own any of this work. And it is run by people who are neither artists nor art experts, only c**ts. The Tate Britain recently showed a 'piece' by Sarah Lucas that consisted of a mattress pierced by fluorescent tubes. You can't make sculpture with objects in this way. Light tubes and mattresses have awkward shapes that don't easily lose their cultural trappings.
Everyone should be able to express themselves through art. But not everyone should be able to do it in public. There's no more art in art.
This is making me sad.
Oh, I don't know what I'm talking about. Nonsense can't make you sad.
I've only been to the Tate Modern once, didn't think much of it overall, though obviously there were some good bits and bobs inside. And some right old tat, like some material hanging from a nail and a lightbulb inside a colander.
Quote: Leevil @ September 21 2010, 2:12 PM BSTAlthough it should be!!!
*high five*
*leaves hanging*
*dry*
Quote: Godot Taxis @ September 21 2010, 2:24 PM BSTA quote taken from the TM website and undeniably true. It's a stagnant, intellectual wasteland, masquerading as the country's cultural motherlode. A shithole filled with joke art.
Probably the worst thing about it is that everyone thinks it's great - a bit like KFC.
Lay off KFC.
Erm and the Tate Modern.
The Turbine Hall should be turned into a giant KFC with slides ending in big pots of gravy.
I'm no fan of modern art. What ever happened to paintaing a bunch of grapes or a nude fat chick?
Quote: Matthew Stott @ September 21 2010, 3:31 PM BSTsome right old tat, like some material hanging from a nail
It's not really fair to criticise art on the basis of what material it is constructed from, otherwise you could dismiss all the old masters as being 'material hanging from a nail' in exactly the same way.
Quote: sootyj @ September 21 2010, 4:09 PM BSTLay off KFC.
Erm and the Tate Modern.
The Turbine Hall should be turned into a giant KFC with slides ending in big pots of gravy.
I'm no fan of modern art. What ever happened to paintaing a bunch of grapes or a nude fat chick?
Get f**ked. The sequel to Two Girls and a Cup ain't called Two Girls and a Bucket for nothing.
I'm with you on the fat nude chicks. That's what I went to artschool for - to paint fat chicks and bunches of grapes - and skulls.
I wish I went to art school, I never got to paint fat chicks.