#45

just want it to be good really, and kind of speak to me really on some level that’s not patronising, or just really mad bright and immersive, or just weird, or just beautiful

dunno - that’s a bit like saying ‘what do you want out of music?’ - depends

this ‘can’t be understood by people less clever than yourselves?’ i think is a bit of a red herring with art stuff, i don’t really think it’s about that at all, loads of teh stuff i liek I don’t particularly understand all the stuff that they might be trying to communicate, don’t think it matters really - I reckon most good stuff stands on it’s own outside of any intellectualism.

#46

wow.People need to get better at appraising art

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#47

i think it’s only british artists

(no idea who did that image, might be a brit)

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#48

i was hoping this would encourage everyone to put the list in their own order of preference, but it seems im better at appraising art than anyone else. sorry everyone, sorry

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#49

think getting angry about people’s taste in art unless it’s actively offensive in some way is uncool.

#50

Well yes I agree! I’m still livid tho! :sob:

#51

@eems

#52

Should’ve been something with dogs. Dogs are the best.

Wish those card playing dogs were british

#53

can we have a recount please?

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#54

You’re right. This particular master was a Russian.

#55

My fave artist jeff koons did loads of work about taste and stuff like that, kindof celebrating ‘bad taste’ and trying to somewhat rise it up to ‘high art’ (whatever that means) - just made a load of sculptures like this

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so that’s a big fuck off sculpture based on some mass produced figurine which he got some exceptionally skilled artisan dudes to make out of stupidly expensive wood (i think, might have got the details wrong about that a bit, but that s the jist!)

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#56

Apparently the guy who painted that dogs playing poker thing also invented those seaside things where you stick your head through a hole, making you look like a strongman etc.

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#57

In Tate Modern on evening, in the room in which this was on display. it was just us and a family passing through. One of them was carrying a wee baby, it obviously couldn’t care less about anything in there until it saw these bears and then it pointed and went “Ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba…”. You could still hear it in the next room.

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#58

I think for me it has to give me an insight into the world around me that I may or may not have appreciated before. I think an appreciation of artistic skill comes into it too (though this doesn’t necessarily mean ‘complexity’).

I mean, personally I think the balloon girl has something interesting about it, though it’s a bit simplistic. The fucking state of this though:

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#59

pretty nice sentiment to say “fucking state of this” to.

#60

in the context of it being one of the nations 20 favourite artworks, from all the pieces that have been produced over all history, in the fields of art and design, it seems pretty fair!

#61

awful

#62

terrible

#63

I’d rather we progressed to a stage of using and celebrating art as a way to bring happiness and cohesion to society rather than worshipping a canon, so this piece would be totally valid and as important as anything else you could mention.

#64

But to be fair, the poll was essentially,’ which of these twenty pre-selected crap images do you prefer?’

I’m actually quite surprised that on those terms that the Banksy won, although twee sentimentality is always popular.

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