Artist Ordered to Repay Commission for Submitting Blank Canvas as Art

[The IbanezerScrooge]

I mean, really?

 

[Bradskii]

I mean, really?

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Couple talking in a supermarket queue. 'And don't talk to me about modern art. I mean, you could just tape a banana to a wall and call it art!'

Cattelan, standing behind the couple. 'Hmm...'

 

[public hermit]

I still think it's odd they displayed the art but didn't want to pay for the art.

Alex Katz Self-portrait with Sunglasses

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[RocksInMyHead]

I still think it's odd they displayed the art but didn't want to pay for the art.

Alex Katz Self-portrait with Sunglasses

https://allpainters.ru/wp-content/uploads/paintings/alex-katz-self-portrait-with-sunglasses.jpg

Agreed, though I think the argument is that it wasn't the art they'd paid for. They specifically commissioned him to make a reproduction of one of his previous works, not to produce some non-specific work of art. They should still pay him if they're profiting off of his "work" though.

 

[public hermit]

Agreed, though I think the argument is that it wasn't the art they'd paid for. They specifically commissioned him to make a reproduction of one of his previous works, not to produce some non-specific work of art. They should still pay him if they're profiting off of his "work" though.

They paid him for labor, which is hilarious in itself. But they hung it up as authentic art. That tells me they valued it as art. As odd as that seems, the value of art works just like that!

 

[Bradskii]

They paid him for labor, which is hilarious in itself. But they hung it up as authentic art. That tells me they valued it as art. As odd as that seems, the value of art works just like that!

How would a plagiarism claim work?

'Art collector stunned to discover that his Haaning is a fake'.

How could you possibly tell?

 

[durangodawood]

That doesn't represent the norm...they have galleries with amazing stuff from various time periods and various styles. It's when they host their modern art special events that you get to see the mediocrity on display.

Thats what I'm talking about. The contemporary stuff. Why so uniformly bad there? I often follow my SFe friend and she seems to have a nose for fascinating well considered art. Theres also some lame stuff.

(the stereotypical scene... the artists who made it pretending they don't care about what they're wearing...even though it's clear they spent a lot of time on their "look"...y'know the types I'm talking about, you can tell they spent 45 mins in front of a mirror making sure their hair looks "the right kind of messy"...a lot of time invested in cultivating just the right "I don't care" look, attendees reeking of desperation trying to talk to the artists about it so they can be in the "cool club" and have something to talk about...etc...)

I know what youre talking about, where the art scene is more scene than art. That may have more to do with those 2 particular institutions tho. You may want to seek out some other spaces.

I have more infinitely more appreciation for Randyland in Pittsburgh (in terms of modern and alternative art) than I do for the modern art scene in Cleveland. Although, if you're looking to check out Randyland, I'd recommend doing it sooner than later. Randy (I got to talk with him for about an hour on my last trip out to the Burgh) seems to not be coping well with some of the life changes that have taken place for him over the past 4 years, and Randyland is slowly transitioning into something that looks like it's out of an episode of Hoarders.

Randy Gilson, Genius of the Human Spirit - Pittsburgh Quarterly

Life began for me on January 27, 1957, in Titusville, Pennsylvania. My dad was from there and my mom came from a dairy farm in Mercer. She was a little country girl who loved to play the accordion, and she’d always go down to the tent revival meetings because she also loved Jesus. That’s where …...

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This piece was written about him back pre-pandemic. He's a guy with ADHD, OCD, Autism...and the combination of his partner dying, combined with the effects pandemic has sent him "off the rails" just a bit and he didn't seem like the same guy in 2021 I talked to back in 2018.

Ive been in some spaces like that. In older times there was the 24 Hour Church Of Elvis in Portland. It was like this woman's mind turned inside out complete with a wry and kind of pushy personal tour of the place. These examples are like spying on someones schizophrenia therapy tho. They dont typically tell me a lot about other ways of seeing the world that I might benefit from.

 

[lanceleo]

I assure you a black canvas is just as art as a white one.