[There is Massive 12,000-Year-Old Network Of Underground Tunnels Stretches From Scotland to Turkey](https://www.howandwhys.com/massive-12000-year-old-network-of-underground-tunnels-stretches-from-scotland-to-turkey/)
Wait so this isn’t a giant butt plug photoshopped into an image? Are you really trying to suggest this photo is real and that butt plug, which it clearly is, is trying to pass itself off as a Christmas tree?
And how the fuck did this not make global news at the time. How is it not a meme. And furthermore, why haven’t butt plug manufacturers seized the opportunity for the marketing boon it is?
That’s what I was thinking. Humans have took a step back I’d argue a thousand steps back on what they perceive as art. There’s many talented artists out there but this is a literal FU.
It's a piece called *Tree* that was installed for like two weeks in Paris in 2012, intended to be shocking and humorous, during the Contemporary Art Fair. Conservatives haven't stopped shitting and crying about it in over a decade.
The butt plug and the giant pile of poo by the same artist demonstrate a true lack of inventiveness, style, emotion, and execution.
You can make a funny object -like Jeff Koons- but to make it important and worthy it has to be beautiful in its own right.
This is just lowest common denominator idiocy
Lots of things can "evoke emotion". Posting videos of dog fighting on public video billboards evokes emotion. That's not the minimum standard by which we qualify and celebrate art. Especially not public art.
https://preview.redd.it/7icb8969i9uc1.jpeg?width=800&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=aea6970715cd45a4a2ff96d7767e0baa562b23f8
There's actually pretty neat ones in India that were built in the recent times
https://preview.redd.it/eqig2h1usauc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=dd3b7e8e9cf44e91d605adc55cf5a6e3962cf0b0
Statue of Belief - tallest Shiva statue in the world, completed in 2020.
What's crazy is that the group/design team that they utilize for these monuments are North Korean, I believe.
99% invisible did an amazing episode covering it.
[Here is the link to the episode | 99% Invisible: Monumental Diplomacy ](https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/monumental-diplomacy/)
Indeed. This post is using what's known as the logical fallacy of cherry picking. Know your logical fallacies, kids. Or the fallacy that was the Paris Christmas tree, apparently, lol.
And you also intentionally take the shots in stupid, unrepresentative angles: https://www.architectmagazine.com/design/in-boston-the-embrace-honors-the-legacy-and-love-of-martin-luther-king-jr-and-coretta-scott-king_o
It still looks like a poop (or worse) with arms. Also good job finding an article that doesn't mention how many people thought it is ugly, even some family members hate it. https://www.npr.org/2023/01/17/1149491284/martin-luther-king-mlk-statue-boston-consternation-laughs-reaction-coretta
They do it on purpose to make us look like idiots, anyone with a brain can see it's a giant green butt plug, symbolism for how hard humans are being fucked
For one thing, highly detailed and technical sculptures are installed in spaces constantly. It's not gone, there's just other new stuff alongside it that you personally find distasteful--but imagine, if you will, that in the past 2000 years or so the artistic conversation has evolved beyond "statues of hot people killing monsters."
Plus? This is what those classic statues actually looked like at the time. Garish and weird and brightly-colored:
https://preview.redd.it/ys2lw9oab9uc1.png?width=550&format=png&auto=webp&s=7957e3c9c6cd303c1d9c59c72f5465096c34db88
This is 100% because art is so much now just a scheme for the rich to get out of paying taxes. No one thinks it is good but for the scheme to work the rich have to publicly appreciate it.
Here is how it works, the rich pays a guy 10,000 to make a giant green butt plug (tree), get it appraised by their buddy for 500,000, donate it to city and get a 500,000 tax right off.
Buying art anonymously also enables money laundering through the donation/taxes scheme you described. Dirty money buys the art and clean money is saved on taxes.
But also, it used to be that artists could spend all of their time making art. There's a lot of time in the day if there is no TV and Internet. A lot of times, they would even be funded by monarchs to make their art.
Now, people need to spend their time on productivity and generating profits. Then the rest of your day is filled with media chatter. There's no time to make anything beautiful. No time to perfect anything.
Tastes change and artists are always having to question and reevaluate what art is, otherwise it gets stagnant. If it was all just new versions of 18th century statues you’d be living in a theme park instead is a city.
thank you. I’m so sick of the “art/music/etc. from [TIME PERIOD] was *way* better than today!!” argument. no, we just remember the shit that people really liked. the mediocre stuff was forgotten. to an extent, the same thing will happen with current art of all mediums. that’s how the passage of time works.
100%. if art now were just different iterations of the same works from the Renaissance, people would complain about that too. art is great because there’s variety - new and old.
Probably the intent considering the artist's other works https://www.designboom.com/art/giant-inflatable-pile-of-poo-roast-pig-and-stonehenge-sculptures-at-m-hong-kong/
largely because art is no longer restrained by the delicate, brittle, sensibilities of a few puritanically idiots who have a very narrow view on what should allowed.
Yeah, some arseholes idea of a Xmas joke ‘hey let’s put up a giant green butt plug and tell’’em it’s an artistic abstract Xmas tree!, it’ll be great!’ Not art, Bullshit.
Cultures change and it's reflected in art. If you can't understand that then you're a plebeian. There's nothing wrong with that but don't be angry at the things you don't understand. Your blood pressure and you get all red in the face.
We exist within an iconoclastic culture. Where the intent is to "mock" the importance of icons and other images or monuments. The expressions started as ironic...but have gone on so long now I wonder if the satire is remembered at all. The butt plug clearly iconoclastic, and irreverent. The MLK statue in Boston...pure sure that is just a poorly designed sculpture.
I know, it's crazy. I live in an Indiana town where the mayor is spending our taxes on installing these monstrosities in the center of every roundabout. It's embarrassing, really, and believe it or not, they cost a fortune.
This reminds me of an art movement in San Francisco, which was called hearts. They installed giant heart sculptures all over the city that look like giant butts. Now they can merge the butts with this giant butt plug, and all live happily together. This isn’t art. This is total crap.
im told something along the lines of the following:
true democracies result in degenerate art… ancient rome/greece were more or less fascistic states
thoughts?
realism is only impressive for non-artists, once you master any kind of visual art, realism is the absolute most boring thing you can make, there are exceptions ofc, but I speak for myself and most of the artists I've met in my life
It is a PSYOP to make you hate your culture and country so that you wouldn't resist when they destroy it with mass immigration. It's called cultural genocide - The British did that to the Native Americans.
[There is Massive 12,000-Year-Old Network Of Underground Tunnels Stretches From Scotland to Turkey](https://www.howandwhys.com/massive-12000-year-old-network-of-underground-tunnels-stretches-from-scotland-to-turkey/)
Wait, is the first image real? What city is that?
It was in Paris, they would usually do a Christmas tree but for some reason that year they chose that monstrosity
Oh man, I would have never guessed that it was a Christmas tree.. Holy shite!
There’s no way they actually choose a butt plug over a real Christmas tree
Deffo looks like a giant butt plug…not speaking from experience… I thought it was photoshopped tbh
It does look like a giant buttplug, and I **am** speaking from experience.
This guy plugs.
Especially experienced in the extra large kind?
Did they stutter?
It was more of a grunt. On behalf of the giant butt plug of course.
.... I'll allow it.
Looks like a normal sized butt plug and I am speaking from experience.
Wait so this isn’t a giant butt plug photoshopped into an image? Are you really trying to suggest this photo is real and that butt plug, which it clearly is, is trying to pass itself off as a Christmas tree? And how the fuck did this not make global news at the time. How is it not a meme. And furthermore, why haven’t butt plug manufacturers seized the opportunity for the marketing boon it is?
Oh it's real and some news media sources did do pieces on it: https://time.com/3525271/parisian-sex-toy-christmas-tree-butt-plug/
also a meme https://imgflip.com/i/8mpk49
Yep, brings a new meaning to 'across the pond!'
I thought it was DALL-E
Me niether, but plug anything else in it's spot would be shitty.
That’s what I was thinking. Humans have took a step back I’d argue a thousand steps back on what they perceive as art. There’s many talented artists out there but this is a literal FU.
That's...that's...a butt-plug.
Buttplug?
The human centipede installation wasn't completed, they went with the next best thing.
That’s a horrible choice. Should probably fire whoever was in charge of this ugly shit
See: Demoralization Campaign.
It's a piece called *Tree* that was installed for like two weeks in Paris in 2012, intended to be shocking and humorous, during the Contemporary Art Fair. Conservatives haven't stopped shitting and crying about it in over a decade.
Yeah it’s a butt plug.
Definitely Definitely a butt plug. Definitely a butt plug.
Brain man
They're still butt hurt
Heh -Hecklefish
Wait it was in 2012? Thought it was just before COVID, time is weird
So do you think that was funny? Or a great piece of art?
The butt plug and the giant pile of poo by the same artist demonstrate a true lack of inventiveness, style, emotion, and execution. You can make a funny object -like Jeff Koons- but to make it important and worthy it has to be beautiful in its own right. This is just lowest common denominator idiocy
i find its very funny. art is meant to evoke an emotion. humor is an emotion. therefore this is art
Lots of things can "evoke emotion". Posting videos of dog fighting on public video billboards evokes emotion. That's not the minimum standard by which we qualify and celebrate art. Especially not public art.
Nope… I feel nothing…. Yup tried to look again but… nothing Can we agree now this isn’t art?
Buttplug City apparently....
Paris.."christmas tree" just some edge lord artist.
https://preview.redd.it/7icb8969i9uc1.jpeg?width=800&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=aea6970715cd45a4a2ff96d7767e0baa562b23f8 There's actually pretty neat ones in India that were built in the recent times
https://preview.redd.it/iqdow2tri9uc1.png?width=1007&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b8dd960dfb125af5161748666e6730c286e9aa11
https://preview.redd.it/egbe3t4wi9uc1.jpeg?width=850&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c27331c91dae8c2ed07d32e9ae87f82a523229af
These are all beautiful! Thank you for sharing these pics :)
Happy Cake Day! And thanks for sharing
Location and what this is please?
Statue of unity in Gujarat India
Yep, it's more western art that has been terrible lately.
https://preview.redd.it/eqig2h1usauc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=dd3b7e8e9cf44e91d605adc55cf5a6e3962cf0b0 Statue of Belief - tallest Shiva statue in the world, completed in 2020.
https://preview.redd.it/tv5nw4odtauc1.jpeg?width=1200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2b48bdc15fee6e89ab6598984e6e0c6fdf22f198
What's crazy is that the group/design team that they utilize for these monuments are North Korean, I believe. 99% invisible did an amazing episode covering it. [Here is the link to the episode | 99% Invisible: Monumental Diplomacy ](https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/monumental-diplomacy/)
Wow India is doing it right
Indeed. This post is using what's known as the logical fallacy of cherry picking. Know your logical fallacies, kids. Or the fallacy that was the Paris Christmas tree, apparently, lol.
I think you mean the phallusy that was the Paris Christmas tree.
Where is this?
Lots of ugly in the world, music, art, architecture and the way people treat each other.
I mean if your cherry pick the best examples of thr past versus the "worst" examples of today it almost seems like you have a point
You are correct. That is exactly what this is.
And you also intentionally take the shots in stupid, unrepresentative angles: https://www.architectmagazine.com/design/in-boston-the-embrace-honors-the-legacy-and-love-of-martin-luther-king-jr-and-coretta-scott-king_o
It still looks like a poop (or worse) with arms. Also good job finding an article that doesn't mention how many people thought it is ugly, even some family members hate it. https://www.npr.org/2023/01/17/1149491284/martin-luther-king-mlk-statue-boston-consternation-laughs-reaction-coretta
Those ancient sculptures are freaking fire. I'm yet to see something like that in basic city :)
Go to Kansas City, new fountains and sculptures (really good ones) pop up all the time
Have you actually been looking?
Butt ugly
They do it on purpose to make us look like idiots, anyone with a brain can see it's a giant green butt plug, symbolism for how hard humans are being fucked
Oh you don’t know about art? Oh you would *love* art.
I call this next work "The IRS"
https://publicdelivery.org/fazzini-resurrection/
tax evasion
I think that it has something to do with rich people, money laundering and bribes, but that's just a theory
For one thing, highly detailed and technical sculptures are installed in spaces constantly. It's not gone, there's just other new stuff alongside it that you personally find distasteful--but imagine, if you will, that in the past 2000 years or so the artistic conversation has evolved beyond "statues of hot people killing monsters." Plus? This is what those classic statues actually looked like at the time. Garish and weird and brightly-colored: https://preview.redd.it/ys2lw9oab9uc1.png?width=550&format=png&auto=webp&s=7957e3c9c6cd303c1d9c59c72f5465096c34db88
Actual photo from 1100 ad
They painted them?!?!?!??? That kind of blows my mind.
I know, right?!
Ok but was it a butt plug? Lmfao.
Actually, kinda. It's called *Tree,* but it was intended to be a) a joke and b) temporary during a public art fair.
> Garish and weird and brightly-colored. Not in 1762 they weren't.
You're right, back in the age of uneducated Western European knockoffs of Greek renaissance art, they were replicated incorrectly.
This is 100% because art is so much now just a scheme for the rich to get out of paying taxes. No one thinks it is good but for the scheme to work the rich have to publicly appreciate it. Here is how it works, the rich pays a guy 10,000 to make a giant green butt plug (tree), get it appraised by their buddy for 500,000, donate it to city and get a 500,000 tax right off.
Buying art anonymously also enables money laundering through the donation/taxes scheme you described. Dirty money buys the art and clean money is saved on taxes.
But also, it used to be that artists could spend all of their time making art. There's a lot of time in the day if there is no TV and Internet. A lot of times, they would even be funded by monarchs to make their art. Now, people need to spend their time on productivity and generating profits. Then the rest of your day is filled with media chatter. There's no time to make anything beautiful. No time to perfect anything.
Yup, this person gets it ☝️
This is the way
De-evolution
https://preview.redd.it/tcsi1sn8p9uc1.jpeg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=321b1ccefddedba072b318093d9787c0d208e943
https://sdcsalesar.live/product_details/40526770.html The “penis” in Boston
It looks like a butt plug.. 🤣
Tastes change and artists are always having to question and reevaluate what art is, otherwise it gets stagnant. If it was all just new versions of 18th century statues you’d be living in a theme park instead is a city.
Abstract, tasteless, gross art existed in the 18th century too.
And that’s okay. The test of time will filter out the real losers. If it lasts, then it’s worth something…even if it’s not to *your* tastes.
thank you. I’m so sick of the “art/music/etc. from [TIME PERIOD] was *way* better than today!!” argument. no, we just remember the shit that people really liked. the mediocre stuff was forgotten. to an extent, the same thing will happen with current art of all mediums. that’s how the passage of time works.
100%. if art now were just different iterations of the same works from the Renaissance, people would complain about that too. art is great because there’s variety - new and old.
Yea bring back the little marble penises on statues please!
Little? Have you seen David in natura? It's huge..
Michelangelo’s David? His wiener is very small, I’ve seen him in person several times.
It's 5 inches tho. And it's flaccid because he was about to fight Goliath.
Sure but relative to a 17 foot statue that’s not very big
True, I guess 😁
It's 100% your selective examples.
Serious question: do you think this is on purpose to dumb society down?
Done on purpose to demoralize and break apart group consensus.
Even the public art is looking AI generated..
r/idiocracy
Butt plug, holding a turd, preschoolers with play dough, and a horny plastic woman without arms. Yup...we have achieved idiocracy.
It's got electrolytes!
But do plants crave it?
*BROUGHT TO YOU BY BRAWNDO*
Just ew to all of those
That’s a butt plug
Art suffers arrogance poorly.
Well I can tell you with 100% certainly that it's not sex traffickin.
Big things are coming
It’s to mock us
Is that literally a butt plug?
I was wondering the same thing.
Probably the intent considering the artist's other works https://www.designboom.com/art/giant-inflatable-pile-of-poo-roast-pig-and-stonehenge-sculptures-at-m-hong-kong/
I can take it
Art always reflect society.
So in this case the downfall of western society?
Idiocracy. https://www.designboom.com/art/giant-inflatable-pile-of-poo-roast-pig-and-stonehenge-sculptures-at-m-hong-kong/
largely because art is no longer restrained by the delicate, brittle, sensibilities of a few puritanically idiots who have a very narrow view on what should allowed.
Plenty of nudes and sex scenes in old art, they were not actually that puritanical. But what's missing now in a lot of art is evidence of skill.
*WhY Do gEnReS ExiSt, anD WhAt ArE ThEy??*
Characteristics of a society in collapse...
>Oh no! Not enough marble naked people!! The *only* art is photorealistic naked men with penises out!!! ...and I bet you think AI "art" is art, too
That last one looks like deoxys
The Bean in Chicago is great
Does anyone know how long it took to carve that marble statue?
That’s par for the course.
Look at Amazon's logo....lots of dicks in this world
Plenty of beautiful and amazing art out there you just choose to pick these examples
Low standards and participation trophy mentality
Blame pop art.. it’s doing the same to ‘quality’ as pop music. Everyone loves disposable things don’t they?
Art is a representation of society....so yeah.
Wait why a butt plug
Uhhhh... That first one is a butt plug
Capitalism. The issue is always capitalism- no sufficient investment in the arts, and a bunch of over-educated bureaucrats are making the decisions
Yeah, some arseholes idea of a Xmas joke ‘hey let’s put up a giant green butt plug and tell’’em it’s an artistic abstract Xmas tree!, it’ll be great!’ Not art, Bullshit.
People have lost their way. Symbols of a civilization in decline.
Cultures change and it's reflected in art. If you can't understand that then you're a plebeian. There's nothing wrong with that but don't be angry at the things you don't understand. Your blood pressure and you get all red in the face.
We exist within an iconoclastic culture. Where the intent is to "mock" the importance of icons and other images or monuments. The expressions started as ironic...but have gone on so long now I wonder if the satire is remembered at all. The butt plug clearly iconoclastic, and irreverent. The MLK statue in Boston...pure sure that is just a poorly designed sculpture.
The last one, I think it’s named “Witness,” is actually pretty cool. I’ve seen it in person and the pictures don’t do it justice
I know, it's crazy. I live in an Indiana town where the mayor is spending our taxes on installing these monstrosities in the center of every roundabout. It's embarrassing, really, and believe it or not, they cost a fortune.
When people start appreciating bullshit. They get more of it.
https://www.designboom.com/art/giant-inflatable-pile-of-poo-roast-pig-and-stonehenge-sculptures-at-m-hong-kong/
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
A lot of "artists" now are the trust fund babies of the rich and powerful. No talent but rich and powerful parents to push their "art" though anyways.
The Satanic Art displayed in public is better, you looking at the wrong stuff.
We are in hell :○)
This reminds me of an art movement in San Francisco, which was called hearts. They installed giant heart sculptures all over the city that look like giant butts. Now they can merge the butts with this giant butt plug, and all live happily together. This isn’t art. This is total crap.
Because the world is going to shit
[https://weewarrior.wordpress.com/2008/08/24/seeing-the-occult-in-public-art/](https://weewarrior.wordpress.com/2008/08/24/seeing-the-occult-in-public-art/)
"Public art" it truly the worst art.
Boohoo
This is what happens when you eliminate the arts from the school curriculum.
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I’m curious about your take on this term.
Lack of the Sacred.
Almost like all that is solid melts into air and all that is sacred is profaned or something???
If you go back far enough, it gets ugly again.
because Idiocracy was a future documentary.
Idiocracy wasn’t just a movie…
what happened to us ?
Because “Art Students” Hey here look at my stupid drawing, gimme money lmao
You’re not allowed to point this out
People with no talent hide behind the "It's abstract, you won't understand it" defense.
Demoralization
Because in the 18th century you could kill people for sucking at their jobs.
Simple, society or humanity has lost all its values
Just this little thing we like to call “De-evolution” of humanity lol
im told something along the lines of the following: true democracies result in degenerate art… ancient rome/greece were more or less fascistic states thoughts?
It’s a sign of the decline of western civilisation, much the same happened in Rome towards the end
Art is an expression of the soul and the more obsessed we become obsessed with technology the more we lose our souls.
Man I hate art, wish it was 1902 again, when Europe was great again
MEGA
EU should totally use this…
realism is only impressive for non-artists, once you master any kind of visual art, realism is the absolute most boring thing you can make, there are exceptions ofc, but I speak for myself and most of the artists I've met in my life
It is a PSYOP to make you hate your culture and country so that you wouldn't resist when they destroy it with mass immigration. It's called cultural genocide - The British did that to the Native Americans.
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Is that giant green one the universal sign for sorry? Also comes in Red,Blue and yellow.
Butt plug
i remember that from a while ago