ART UPDATE

Here I am in the Miro museum with a piece of art consisting of a plastic egg on a stool. It is worth more than your house.

Comments

[Meanie the Blue]

Understandable, if you've seen my house.

[rickh]

YIKES! here's some more "art"

[mudstuffin]

d'oh! meanie beat me to it.

um...

my house has a billboard next to it with a crude drawing of a house on it.

huh. there.

[Ford79]

Several years ago, I was in an art museum (in Philadelphia, I think) when I encountered something similar: a bicycle tire bolted to a stool. I thoughtlessly reached out and gave the tire a little push. It turned on its axle and squeaked a little. A guard instantly came running over, yelling, "Don't touch! Don't touch!" like the thing was valuable or something.

I was reminded of George Carlin: "If you nail together two things that have never been nailed together before, some schmuck will buy it from you!"

[Meanie the Blue]

rickh - wrong kind of stool. (Just ... ugh!)

Sorry, mud. Maybe if you called the billboard "art", your house value might increase.

[Mahatma Kane Jeeves]

This is why I throw eggs at the bank to pay my mortgage . . .

[Al Iterative]

Of course it's valuable, it's the aftermath of a seldom seen event where one of those eurorubber chickens has laid a yellow plastic egg and that gave us the saying..
"rare as rubber chicken eggs (or something to do with rocking horses)".

[Horace LaBadie]

So an Egg, a Box with a Monocle and an American Tourist walk into a bar...

[Cheesewiz]

But the art really shows with the exact placement of the eurorubber egg. Unless, of course, Dave snuck it in from the eurorubber chicken stall.

[crossgirl]

at easter there are always plastic eggs on the furniture. does this improve my property value?

[Horace LaBadie]

BTW, the Bicycle Wheel Mounted on a Stool is by Duchamp. It (or a version) is in MoMA. Most of his works are in the Philadelphia Museum, however. Don't try to clean the Large Glass.

[Cheesewiz]

Sometime, art is what you can get away with.

[Meanie the Blue]

Is this exhibit titled "This Came First"?

[Ford79]

Thanks, Horace. Maybe I did see it in MoMA; it was a long time ago. I didn't find turning the wheel particularly soothing in any event.

[gjd]

*hopes the Blog wasn't arrested for photographing such valuable stuff*

[Annie Where-but-here]

Having to shell out that much money is somebody's idea of a sick yolk.

[queensbee]

if I could create it, it aint art.
or maybe i can get someone to take creative pics of the dust on my furniture.

[Annie Where-but-here]

The real artistry is in convincing people that it's actually worth something.

[MartiniShark]

You philistines - it is so expensive because that is a golden egg!

The egg is presented in opposition to the stool as a juxtoposition of fertility and growth to contrast the sedentary existence of maturity; it is meant to provoke the surfeit emotional state and convey the ennui of anyone stupid enough to pay for this art.

[tropichunt.com guy™]

hehe...Dave said "stool"...

[MartiniShark]

(Throws an "a" at the "o" like an egg) I don't know much about spelling, I just know what I like.

[Joshua]

If you've got an entire egg avec shell in your stool you might consider a trip to the hospital.

[nursecindy]

It looks like the 'artist' woke up about 2 hours before his exhibition was due to be taken to the museum and threw a few things together.

[Siouxie]

Eggcellent!!

I actually saw something very similar at the MOMA. It could have been the same egg just turned yellow now. A true piece of crap art.
*rolls eyes*

[Punkin Poo]

This only looks good as long as Dave stands there, pointing.

Enjoy your new home, Dave!

[NotSherly]

How do we know it is not a MIT hack?

[WriterDude]

The egg is presented in opposition to the stool as a juxtoposition of fertility and growth to contrast the sedentary existence of maturity; it is meant to provoke the surfeit emotional state and convey the ennui of anyone stupid enough to pay for this art.

Well shoveled, MS!

[MartiniShark]

Thank You, I'm very proficient at manual fertiliztion disseminating techniques.

[Elon]

Looks more like a lemon.

[Horace LaBadie]

I remember when Duchamps' last great work was installed in the Philadelphia Museum. There was quite a hoo-ha raised about it.

[Clankazoid]

Depends on who laid the egg.

[nursecindy]

Siouxie! Sharkie's acting all smart and showing his brain again.

[Diva]

Elon - It would be, if it were a car.

Sharkie, you are DEFINITELY a writer. LOL

[Diva]

PS - the card on the next stool (heh. stool.) reminds me of something Sophie drew when she was 4.

[bonmot]

The hardest part of that artist's job was keeping a straight face until the check cleared.

[MartiniShark]

Uh, my brain is showing....? (zips up)

[nursecindy]

As you were, Sharkie. IYKWIM.

[Siouxie]

He's just very good at bullsh!tting, cindy.

Pinky in there too, Sharkie??

[shellinoz]

Many years ago, I was a nanny in CT. A couple of my nanny friends worked for a famous artist that I met numerous times. I didn't know that he was famous until a few years later and came across a book about him. They had a giant scallion (might have been a leek) at the top of their staircase. We took the kids to a show of Dad's and there was a "box" of randomly nailed together boards--hundreds of nails. It looked like something I would have done when I was six and playing in the garage with my dad. I've never understood any of it. I'll stick with pretty pics of sunsets, Amish farm scenes and old relatives that stare at you no matter where you sit.

[Alan]

I've left stool on a stool. What is that worth?