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les fleurs du mall
Jun 30, 2014

by LadyAmbien
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Weiner

this guy's conceptual art is primarily just text describing a gesture. The 'art' is somewhere in the ambiguity between the statement of the gesture, and the gesture described.

It might be interesting if he did this, but with meme images.

Some examples of his work:





Weiner and his contemporaries perceive language as a raw material for art, and consider the articulation of a concept equivalent to visual art.

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TEAYCHES
Jun 23, 2002

visual fart

itsgotmetoo
Oct 5, 2006

by zen death robot
I think it's more like people who have that dumb rear end "2 rules in my kitchen" magnet.

Lonos Oboe
Jun 7, 2014
gently caress it, I am sure it sells well and gets them lots of grants.

Edgar Allan Pwned
Apr 4, 2011

Quoth the Raven "I love the power glove. It's so bad..."
Sorry the sum if our culture is highly digestible mismatched images and phrases that are then re-fed to us after we vomit it out all over the place

social vegan
Nov 7, 2014



hahaha weiner! good meme

quakster
Jul 21, 2007

by FactsAreUseless

Mr. Pumroy posted:

what else are artists going to paint? starry night has already been done. ain't poo poo out there to paint. ain't any loving poo poo out there to paint, it's all been loving painted. there's nothing left to loving paint. no more poo poo to paint.
risque close-ups of the undersides of locomotives. that would be a great thing to paint. im touching myself thinking about it

quakster
Jul 21, 2007

by FactsAreUseless
explore the sexuality of trains through the medium of paint

Boinks
Nov 24, 2003




les fleurs du mall
Jun 30, 2014

by LadyAmbien

social vegan posted:

hahaha weiner! good meme

ArtIsResistance
May 19, 2007

QUEEN OF FRANCE, SAVIOR OF LOWTAX

quakster posted:

i think its kind of a downer how quickly people with no cultural identity latch onto any old joke, just cause theres a funny face or cute animal attached. a shame

:frog:

redshirt
Aug 11, 2007

Reporting for shovel mission Sir.
Now I finally get art! Thanks internet.

HOT! New Memes
May 31, 2006




It made the op think and question... Isn't that what great art is

Jerry Mumphrey
Mar 11, 2004

by zen death robot

(and can't post for 4 years!)

ah I see you admiring my trollface, excellent taste

*swirls snifter of mountain dew*

wearing a lampshade
Mar 6, 2013

Taste the Rainbugh posted:

It made the op think and question... Isn't that what great art is

:getin:

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wearing a lampshade
Mar 6, 2013

Jerry Mumphrey posted:

ah I see you admiring my trollface, excellent taste

*swirls snifter of mountain dew*

lmbo

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