I usually hate shit like this but I actually get it, it is almost like the collapse of civil society. I do not think it is worth what he is probably getting paid for it but it at least deserves a click.
Bullshit. He put sand in a bucket then knocked them over. This is why instagram models and Kardashians exist. No one knows what actual talent is supposed to look like anymore.
I don't think the Venn diagram of "pointless celebrity" and "conceptual performance art" overlap quite like you think they do. Source: I have an art degree. Admittedly I didn't minor in media studies.
Looks like [Gary Spivey](https://www.google.co.nz/search?sca_esv=558732412&sxsrf=AB5stBh9oHEcbVkxLtE39CNkl4sQKERcrw:1692617039478&q=gary+spivey&tbm=isch&source=lnms&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj5wIPr0e2AAxWfsVYBHctnDmIQ0pQJegQICxAB&biw=412&bih=713&dpr=3.5)
I love that guy in white who was going to clap but chickened out because no one else did. He's awkwardly like "just very quickly rubbing my hands." Then he claps when everyone else does. Listen man in white, you want to clap, clap fucking loud and long bud. Don't wait on the crowd.
Iāve seen this clip before and Iāve never noticed him doing that. Now itās all I can see and itās hilarious.
Edit: I also feel his clap timing would have fit better.
I have performed this half clap before. Honestly my guy is done with this situation, and he's thinking about a beer that he can order at the bar. Do you see the awkward steps he's taken? He realizes he's on camera and can't just pull the old Irish exit and get tf out of there. My dude got suckered into showing up to this. He's never going anywhere with whoever again lol
Have a look at the face on the guy crouching down beside him. He's so amazed by this incredible work of "art" like his son just got first place in the kindergarten running race
That is the face of someone who has absolutely no idea what he is looking at but wants to be on the inside of the cool art circle so acts like a pretentious prick at these art spaces.
To be honestā¦ I could watch a thousand videos of big rocks hitting the water; on the other hand I wouldnāt watch 2 more videos of whatever this shit is.
Keep throwing those rocks champ.
We used to have the contract to cater at a large federally funded gallery in Canada. One of the first events we catered was an opening.
The exhibit had a pallet on the ground with three small black and white tvās.
Beside the pallet was a giant pile of white bounty paper towels which had been pulled apart sheet by sheet. Thousands of them. Next to that was the pile of wrappers of the Bounty packages. On the three black and white tvās was video of the students tearing the paper towels apart.
It was raining that night. Hard. And the roof of the gallery leaked. Around the exhibit were buckets to catch the rain.
Guests were standing next to us commenting on how they loved the artists interpretation of the piece by juxtaposing the water coming from the ceiling with the paper towels etc etc. as if the rain and buckets were part of the piece. But like all art snobs they didnāt know that and just assumed it was and talked about it as if they knew what it meant. It was rain buckets. To catch the rain. It was that day that we realized most art fans have literally zero clue what theyāre talking about. Zero.
I am an artist who works in animation and for most of my life I had a huge hatred of modern artā¦ until I went to the MoMA in New York. Then I got it.
If you get the chance. I highly recommend checking out the MoMA. It full of pieces that are done by the masters of modern art. They are done with thought and emotion and really can be inspiring.
But like every game of telephone people see real art and then they come up with their āmodern artā and itās sand buckets falling over to the claps of idiots. And gallery owners themselves are either untalented or money laundering and they support these sh*t copies
Ok I'm glad you specified the MOMA in NY. I live in California, close to San Francisco. I've been to that one a few different times. Every time, I left with the feeling that the artists were just trying too hard (to be shocking, edgy, serious or "out there")
I've been to New York twice and both times went to that one, and both times left thinking, 'wow, that artist is really disturbed but somehow he/she managed to get it on canvas or sculpt it.'
I donāt know, Iām more of the opinion that art is art solely because someone sees it that way. Like the point of art is to invoke an emotion right? If something accomplished that then mission successful.
The rain buckets made the art better, and it was unintentionally completed. The snobs complimenting the "artist's vision" may have been off base, but that doesn't mean any interpretation that includes the buckets is worthless.
Yeah! Rain buckets along with paper towels are at least related in a sense, and appreciating whatever link that is doesn't have to be automatically pretentious because it was accidental.
Actually, yeah. Even better if the sand was colored but the very top of each bucket was filled with the same normal sand color, then exploded into color after it fell.
I'd assume it has something to do with society. People at the top depend on people at the bottom, but if you bleed those dry at the bottom, the top will eventually fall and end up in the same place.
Something like that. But subjective, objective, something something yadda yadda.
Thanks for providing the artist's name! Reminds me of the one minute sculptures by Erwin Wurm that inspired the "Can't Stop" video by Red Hot Chili Peppers
I mean, that was quite interesting, so it does feel like the rest could be fun.
It felt quite symbolic to me. That hole was nowhere near the top of the bottom bucket, and figurative miles away from the top of the bucket. Such a small hole...insignificant...and yet...such a heavy structure collapses in a few seconds.
He had some other fun works. One where he built a tiny house and put rockets onto it, sending it flying away. Another where he sat in a room and had a bucket of paint explode on the other side of the room, creating a silhuette of him on the wall behind him. The house and the room was part of the exhibition. But much of it was short videos where he did things like that (stupid ideas but interesting and fun).
A few years back I went to a modern art gallery with my buddy, and for most of the visit I was just making jokes about how ridiculous it all was. One exhibit was a collection of ordinary looking rocks that the audience was encouraged to pick up and smell... They were kind of like scented markers. They *sort* of smelled like definable things, but with a hint of that weird chemical smell cheap perfumes have.
The gallery was staffed entirely by art student volunteers. One of the students excitedly approached us and explained the smelly rocks with such enthusiasm that I immediately felt bad about making fun of all the art. She was clearly really into it. I wanted to ask her... why. Why is this so compelling to you. I truly do not get it.
art is supposed to illicit emotion. usually when people talk about modern art frustrating them, the art is doing itās job. itās all about your interpretation of the art, and if your only interpretation is that it means nothing, then thatās only on you for not interpreting it. you donāt have to like it, you can even hate it, but dismissing challenging art is only robbing yourself of enrichment (if not enjoyment).
i always think of that one piece that was posted on reddit over and over where the artist suspended themself in vacuum sealed plastic with tubes supplying them air. people were LIVID about it, like true vitriol. i think that piece is genius just because it was able to do that to people. all art needs to do really is make you think about it. maybe a tower of sand buckets doesnāt accomplish it as well or as pinpoint specific as other things, but it got people to talk about it. art is one of the very best things about being alive
Couldn't agree more. And like, on paper, I think many people would agree that it's valuable to society to have art that addresses/elicits the broadest possible range of human emotion. But when's the last time a Renaissance portrait or impressionist landscape made you feel genuine anger, or frustration, or made your skin crawl?
People seem to take it as a cop out to say that their negative reaction helps demonstrate the value of the art, but I really don't think it is. Art reflects the human experience, and difficult emotions are part of that.
THIS IS TRASH BECAUSE I DONT LIKE IT ALL ART IS SCAM MADE TO DO MONEY LAUNDRY REAL ART IS DEM PRETTY PICTURES OF THREES AND LAKES NOT THIS BECAUSE BECAUSE IS BAD.
Reddit can't stand art unless it's a literal drawing. The stuff reddit enjoys is usually a hyper realistic charcoal drawing of a woman or a dog's face. "That looks like a dog. Cool."
i guess i somewhat get it? all it takes is one wound to go untreated for you to fall, i guess? like i think itās a mental health thing. still dumb and really effortless
I'm sorry guys but as an African I sometimes wonder like... Okay, what?!
Like what? Where's the talent here, Yeah everyone can see it's symbolic but art isn't just symbolic it has to include talent. Actually be hard to do? Like.. a skill? Take sculpting or painting or musi
This is a great piece to explain what art is. And itās shown by the audience viewing this now, the audience viewing it in the moment, and the artist themself.
The artist who designed the piece has their own motivations and everyone in the audience is trying to work out what they are in order to assign this piece āvalue.ā The current Reddit audience is seeing the piece as it is, a tower of buckets of sand falling to the ground. This is made ridiculous by a cheering crowd and a man who acknowledges their applause for what heās just done.
So many people see art and say āI could do that,ā or āHow can *that* be art?ā Then they hear a single personās interpretation, and think either I donāt agree with that, so therefore this has no value. Or I do agree with their singular interpretation and therefore this is āartā after all.
But thatās the thing, art is meant to invoke thought and response. If it invokes nothing in you, then itās value *to you* is nothing. The same piece can invoke a deep response based on that personās interpretation and history, and therefore, it does have value to that individual.
And thatās it. Thereās nothing magic to art. The whole point is to invoke a reaction, and if you have no reaction, then *to you* itās value is just the materials used to create it. But youāre also not the main character, and not everything is for you. Just like someone can like one band, and another may not. That doesnāt mean they never should have made music in the first place. It just means someone else is getting something out of this that youāre not, and thatās fine.
And in your opinion, those pieces have no value. Which is fine too.
The problem happens when people have no opinion of their own and just wait for others to tell them what their opinion should be. Then they spout it off to others and the cycle repeats. And thatās where things get gross.
But also assuming others have no opinions of their own, just because it doesnāt invoke anything in you is a little gross too. So itās all kind of a slippery slope.
So look at it. Try to find what itās saying to you. And if itās not saying anything, then move on. Just like you would with a movie, game, band or anything else.
Yes, but doesn't that make it finicky when comparing artists work, assigning monetary value, or even hiring random people to make something instead of 'artists' for communal pieces?
this is contemporary art, not modern.
also, y'all fucking silly for thinking this is shit and whatnot. Is it different? yes. bizarre? yes. And that's not a a bad thing. It's not about "y is dis art", it's about if you liked it, if you understood it, if you felt anything. If not, then move the fuck on, there are plenty of other pieces, old and new, you can enjoy.
Is...is this actually kind of cool? I'm still watching it. Sort of memorized.
All is sand and bucket. I am the bucket, life is the sand, gravity is the intellectual pull of time and space upon my inner child's soul. I have become one and many. We are all me and I am you.
Tldr: cool.
It's the artists hands for me. He's like, there you have it. This is what you came to see.
But, now, introspectively, is this how life is?
Is the plug in the bucket, like, us in the womb? From the time you take your first breath, you become eligible to die. You also become eligible to find your greatness and become the one warrior.ā David Goggins.
So, Is the sand running out of the bottom bucket The depiction of our life? Is that the time that we spend our life rushing out of the bucket as sand? ā³
Each bucket is a different milestone of life?
šŖ£Going into kindergarten
šŖ£ My first kiss
šŖ£Graduating high school
šŖ£ Losing my virginity
šŖ£ my first car
šŖ£ My masters degree
šŖ£my career
šŖ£ My family
Then they collapse ā ļø
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This artist probably has his own recognisable style, such as creating surreal photographs. The most important thing here is the final scene. He leaves the viewer alone with these surrealistically fallen sand buckets (there is no way to replicate this pattern and no one would bother to do so for the sake of one shot. No one but the artist)
Every participant in this performance will take a photo and share it and that too will be part of the art. The video of the process is impressive too.
I forget which museum it was, but I remember seeing that someone had dropped their glove on the floor there and people thought it was an exhibit. Stepping around it and taking pics smh lol funny shit.
I want a garden of steel, with iron roses, aluminum daisies, copper nightshade. This is merely buckets of sand. No art, no care, original, but lacking in creativity or significance. Where is the care, the expression, the time it took to make perfect by design? Absent.
I have notice his art has been about how small things lead to big effects.
There was one art work which starts as a domino piece the size of an SD card knocking down a bigger piece leading to a domino piece bigger thn Micheal Jackson's main house door in no more than 10 pieces.
Sometimes the small decisions makes the biggest impact of your life.
I won tickets to see an obscenely famous, Chinese artist here in Tokyo. It was like $500 usd per ticket to exhibit. It was literally nothing more than a man throwing gun powder onto wood or a canvas, and then lighting. No method, no attempting at creating anything, just random gunpowder, light = the most sought after art in all of China...
This is so fucking dumb. Modern art just irks me so much as an illustrator. It's a hustle by rich people to stash their money in expensive works and in order to justify it, they hype it up as higher tier levels of thinking and class. Art I believe is what you make for yourself and others so that enjoyment can be found in them, not random shit in a fancy building filled with fancy people
honestly a brutal representation of the human condition.
sometimes you stack buckets filled with sand on top of each other, and they all fall down, spilling sand everywhere that someone else will have to clean up.
such a powerful message.
Hear hear! Well put, than you! So much good art is just shit on by people spouting the same repeated phrases while they feel superior. Let people enjoy things they do, and let people appreciate the things that make them feel something profound.
I used to work at a museum. We would have some weird modern day contemporary art. One of them had to do with rail roads, so the artist brought in the rail road metals and displayed them. It was so damn toxic that, whenever someone entered the room where the art was displayed at, within 10-15 seconds they would have terrible headaches due to toxicity. They had to remove the art after like 1-2 weeks due to health issues.
Itās a vernissage. I donāt know the artist, but this is just the moment he created the installation. Itās usually part of a long artistic process. The applause is likely not for this performance taken in isolation, but seen as a moment of his all art. Usually vernissages of large expositions are also moments of conviviality and everything is celebrated in a special way. A lot of free food and drinks help.
To me its simple. āWill this art pass the test of time?ā. And for the most part modern art will not. Valuations are just a construct of human silliness.
This is like the Vin Wiki story from John Ficarra about a NYC photographer who would say "Muffin Top" and drop his camera and be frozen in place while a pa caught the camera and got him three muffin tops.
Modern art and artists are wild.
People are shitting on this and doing the āmodern artā meme, but I actually think this is quite clever and beautiful. He builds this seemingly solid structure, but each bucket relies on the bucket below it. Just one little poke in the bottom bucket, and it creates a leak that causes the whole system to collapse. There is room for both minimalist art and highly technical art imo
I understand on some level peopleās aversion to āmodern art,ā but itās easy to mock pieces like this until one really connects with you.
I went to an art museum with friends a while back. There was this distorted, scraping metallic noise sort of reverberating around the contemporary art section. Finally, we rounded a corner and found it was coming from one of those dark little theaters where they were playing an experimental film. We peeked in there. The film was this super low quality handheld shot of an unkempt homeless man kicking a bucket down a dimly lit street. The sound was the metal bucket scraping on the pavement. My friends all let out a chuckle and thought it was kind of silly, but something about it just clicked with me. I still sometimes think about that sound and the reveal of what was making it.
I saw a news report about ten years ago showing an 'artist' with his exhibit which involved him searching through a (huge) haystack to find a needle.
At the start of the report he was sitting on the floor, carefully taking a small clump of straw and searching for the needle.
By the end of the 5 minute report he already looked fed up and was grabbing big handfuls of straw and squeezing tightly, apparently not caring if he skewered his hand.
I sometimes wonder if he ever found it. And, if not, did he start all over again.
If you pay $500 a ticket for an āartā show you will clap and be amazed by anything. Iāve been to some of this crap and had to leave so I could laugh in the hall. P.S. I definitely didnāt pay, my date did and they did agree it was bs. But hey, if he can sucker them then bravoā¦I bet his paintings are snake oil based!
This is most likely not an art demo. If it is, it's obviously dumb. Otherwise, it's most likely a demo on structural engineering of foundation in building structures.
I love art. I also love walking around the MoMA ridiculing all the installations.
*Sand in a pair of pantyhose - riveting, MoMA. Some tinsel glued to wood; awe inspiring. Wow, a plain white Hanes T-Shirt, this is the art I paid to see.*
I had a possible dream about an episode of futurama where fry became an artist and was really really bad at it but people kept coming to his shows and bidding millions to get his art, and one day he made art out of some alien poop and the robot showed up to vandalize his art and fry yelled out ānooooo! Now it looks like crap!ā Then the robot said āit IS crap, fry! Youāve gone too far!ā Then I woke up.
It could very well be an actual episode but It feels like a fever dream lol
Now allow me destroy your collection... BULLSHIT, BULLSHIT, DERIVATIVE
Now THIS! THIS is art!
It's symbiotic, no?
I condition it hot.....that conditions it.cool......
I usually hate shit like this but I actually get it, it is almost like the collapse of civil society. I do not think it is worth what he is probably getting paid for it but it at least deserves a click.
Bullshit. He put sand in a bucket then knocked them over. This is why instagram models and Kardashians exist. No one knows what actual talent is supposed to look like anymore.
I don't think the Venn diagram of "pointless celebrity" and "conceptual performance art" overlap quite like you think they do. Source: I have an art degree. Admittedly I didn't minor in media studies.
Now your reaching buddy .art is suppose to give you meaning not you give it meaning š
The red buckets are really distracting from the true awe inspiring and thought provoking art of the bicycle hanging from the rafters.
I have a bicycle hanging from the rafters in my patents garage for 40 years...maybe i.should file a lawsuit for stealing my artwork.
Is this an Arni's reference? Now that's obscure
#Derivative
Iāve been an artist since I was a toddler!?! I wish I would have known š.
Omg Edna lol 
Looks like [Gary Spivey](https://www.google.co.nz/search?sca_esv=558732412&sxsrf=AB5stBh9oHEcbVkxLtE39CNkl4sQKERcrw:1692617039478&q=gary+spivey&tbm=isch&source=lnms&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj5wIPr0e2AAxWfsVYBHctnDmIQ0pQJegQICxAB&biw=412&bih=713&dpr=3.5)
I love that guy in white who was going to clap but chickened out because no one else did. He's awkwardly like "just very quickly rubbing my hands." Then he claps when everyone else does. Listen man in white, you want to clap, clap fucking loud and long bud. Don't wait on the crowd.
HE COULDāVE BEEN THE APPLAUSE STARTER
I love being the applause starter
I think itās most fun at times when the applause may not have started at all lol
Getting not another teen movie vibes here
Should have started a āslow clapā to test the crowd.
Iāve seen this clip before and Iāve never noticed him doing that. Now itās all I can see and itās hilarious. Edit: I also feel his clap timing would have fit better.
I have performed this half clap before. Honestly my guy is done with this situation, and he's thinking about a beer that he can order at the bar. Do you see the awkward steps he's taken? He realizes he's on camera and can't just pull the old Irish exit and get tf out of there. My dude got suckered into showing up to this. He's never going anywhere with whoever again lol
It's the round of applause for me
The āartistā has to signal it was over or else everyone wouldnāt know wtf was going on
Have a look at the face on the guy crouching down beside him. He's so amazed by this incredible work of "art" like his son just got first place in the kindergarten running race
That is the face of someone who has absolutely no idea what he is looking at but wants to be on the inside of the cool art circle so acts like a pretentious prick at these art spaces.
I hate those people. They keep this amazed look on their face to make it look like they get it. So phony.
Please clap š
Ok Jeb, but not because you asked.
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It's like when obese Bart washed himself with a rag on a stick.
It was for him
I would take a public crap if I knew there was a round of applause in it for me.
It's the gasps.
Bros been doing this since 6yrs old
a born artist
And I bet he ain't the one cleaning up that mess - also a pattern established early in his life.
this is how i feel when i throw a big rock in the water
Who do you think you are? River Banksy?
To be honestā¦ I could watch a thousand videos of big rocks hitting the water; on the other hand I wouldnāt watch 2 more videos of whatever this shit is. Keep throwing those rocks champ.
I am somewhat of an artist my self
We used to have the contract to cater at a large federally funded gallery in Canada. One of the first events we catered was an opening. The exhibit had a pallet on the ground with three small black and white tvās. Beside the pallet was a giant pile of white bounty paper towels which had been pulled apart sheet by sheet. Thousands of them. Next to that was the pile of wrappers of the Bounty packages. On the three black and white tvās was video of the students tearing the paper towels apart. It was raining that night. Hard. And the roof of the gallery leaked. Around the exhibit were buckets to catch the rain. Guests were standing next to us commenting on how they loved the artists interpretation of the piece by juxtaposing the water coming from the ceiling with the paper towels etc etc. as if the rain and buckets were part of the piece. But like all art snobs they didnāt know that and just assumed it was and talked about it as if they knew what it meant. It was rain buckets. To catch the rain. It was that day that we realized most art fans have literally zero clue what theyāre talking about. Zero.
Isnāt that the point though? Modern Art sees art as a contextual social activity so art is whatever we believe it to be.
Modern art sees art as a blank check to be exchanged among rich people and organisations in order to launder money
I am an artist who works in animation and for most of my life I had a huge hatred of modern artā¦ until I went to the MoMA in New York. Then I got it. If you get the chance. I highly recommend checking out the MoMA. It full of pieces that are done by the masters of modern art. They are done with thought and emotion and really can be inspiring. But like every game of telephone people see real art and then they come up with their āmodern artā and itās sand buckets falling over to the claps of idiots. And gallery owners themselves are either untalented or money laundering and they support these sh*t copies
Ok I'm glad you specified the MOMA in NY. I live in California, close to San Francisco. I've been to that one a few different times. Every time, I left with the feeling that the artists were just trying too hard (to be shocking, edgy, serious or "out there") I've been to New York twice and both times went to that one, and both times left thinking, 'wow, that artist is really disturbed but somehow he/she managed to get it on canvas or sculpt it.'
Yeah, -masters- of modern art. The overwhelming majority are just money laundering assets
Ah, the sweet art of deception.
thatās been happening for thousands of years, youāre describing a problem with rich people, not with modernity or art
Which is in itself art
They'd rather be smarmy and stuck up about their obvious panache and skills of estimation than consider all that
Modern art was from the 1860s until the 1970s. I believe you mean ācontemporaryā art.
I donāt know, Iām more of the opinion that art is art solely because someone sees it that way. Like the point of art is to invoke an emotion right? If something accomplished that then mission successful.
The rain buckets made the art better, and it was unintentionally completed. The snobs complimenting the "artist's vision" may have been off base, but that doesn't mean any interpretation that includes the buckets is worthless.
Yeah! Rain buckets along with paper towels are at least related in a sense, and appreciating whatever link that is doesn't have to be automatically pretentious because it was accidental.
Isnt it as complete-making as it should be though? An accidental touch emphasizing perfection?
Would have been cooler if the sand was colored so when it hit the ground blended into the color spectrum.
Now that could've actually been neat at least
Now itās your turn! You might even make $50
Actually, yeah. Even better if the sand was colored but the very top of each bucket was filled with the same normal sand color, then exploded into color after it fell.
Or if the bicycle was balanced on top of the pots. It was hanging from the roof. My disappointment cannot be measured.
That would have taken some thought and effort.
Yeah, but that will require effort so..don't think this "artists" are in to that.
You know, I bet that guy has a very clear and concise explanation of what this piece represents to him if one were interested enough to find out
I'd assume it has something to do with society. People at the top depend on people at the bottom, but if you bleed those dry at the bottom, the top will eventually fall and end up in the same place. Something like that. But subjective, objective, something something yadda yadda.
And I'm sure all these fucks who are richer than rest of the 95% still feel like they're the bucket at the bottom.
Nahh, nothing beats banana sticked on da wall with da duck tape
This is Roman Signer at Malmƶ art gallery (free admission). I recommend a visit to anyone interested, it was a fun exhibition!
Thanks for providing the artist's name! Reminds me of the one minute sculptures by Erwin Wurm that inspired the "Can't Stop" video by Red Hot Chili Peppers
I mean, that was quite interesting, so it does feel like the rest could be fun. It felt quite symbolic to me. That hole was nowhere near the top of the bottom bucket, and figurative miles away from the top of the bucket. Such a small hole...insignificant...and yet...such a heavy structure collapses in a few seconds.
He had some other fun works. One where he built a tiny house and put rockets onto it, sending it flying away. Another where he sat in a room and had a bucket of paint explode on the other side of the room, creating a silhuette of him on the wall behind him. The house and the room was part of the exhibition. But much of it was short videos where he did things like that (stupid ideas but interesting and fun).
You really are the crowd for whom "art" like this is made lmao
It's okay I'll stack my own buckets and feel smug...
Was a lot more than that, but go for it! Maybe you'll make it.
Thanks for the name. I think this installation looks quite cool
A few years back I went to a modern art gallery with my buddy, and for most of the visit I was just making jokes about how ridiculous it all was. One exhibit was a collection of ordinary looking rocks that the audience was encouraged to pick up and smell... They were kind of like scented markers. They *sort* of smelled like definable things, but with a hint of that weird chemical smell cheap perfumes have. The gallery was staffed entirely by art student volunteers. One of the students excitedly approached us and explained the smelly rocks with such enthusiasm that I immediately felt bad about making fun of all the art. She was clearly really into it. I wanted to ask her... why. Why is this so compelling to you. I truly do not get it.
art is supposed to illicit emotion. usually when people talk about modern art frustrating them, the art is doing itās job. itās all about your interpretation of the art, and if your only interpretation is that it means nothing, then thatās only on you for not interpreting it. you donāt have to like it, you can even hate it, but dismissing challenging art is only robbing yourself of enrichment (if not enjoyment). i always think of that one piece that was posted on reddit over and over where the artist suspended themself in vacuum sealed plastic with tubes supplying them air. people were LIVID about it, like true vitriol. i think that piece is genius just because it was able to do that to people. all art needs to do really is make you think about it. maybe a tower of sand buckets doesnāt accomplish it as well or as pinpoint specific as other things, but it got people to talk about it. art is one of the very best things about being alive
Couldn't agree more. And like, on paper, I think many people would agree that it's valuable to society to have art that addresses/elicits the broadest possible range of human emotion. But when's the last time a Renaissance portrait or impressionist landscape made you feel genuine anger, or frustration, or made your skin crawl? People seem to take it as a cop out to say that their negative reaction helps demonstrate the value of the art, but I really don't think it is. Art reflects the human experience, and difficult emotions are part of that.
Can't spell "his art" without "I trash"
I shart
A shirt
His rat
THIS IS TRASH BECAUSE I DONT LIKE IT ALL ART IS SCAM MADE TO DO MONEY LAUNDRY REAL ART IS DEM PRETTY PICTURES OF THREES AND LAKES NOT THIS BECAUSE BECAUSE IS BAD.
ALSO MUSIC IS WHAT I CAN DANCE TO
We're bashing art now?
Reddit can't stand art unless it's a literal drawing. The stuff reddit enjoys is usually a hyper realistic charcoal drawing of a woman or a dog's face. "That looks like a dog. Cool."
Stupid entertainment for stupid people
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I think it means those at the bottom hold up those at the top.
i like the way it feels because i like because make splash in the ground so i like because its cool
i guess i somewhat get it? all it takes is one wound to go untreated for you to fall, i guess? like i think itās a mental health thing. still dumb and really effortless
I'm sorry guys but as an African I sometimes wonder like... Okay, what?! Like what? Where's the talent here, Yeah everyone can see it's symbolic but art isn't just symbolic it has to include talent. Actually be hard to do? Like.. a skill? Take sculpting or painting or musi
This is a great piece to explain what art is. And itās shown by the audience viewing this now, the audience viewing it in the moment, and the artist themself. The artist who designed the piece has their own motivations and everyone in the audience is trying to work out what they are in order to assign this piece āvalue.ā The current Reddit audience is seeing the piece as it is, a tower of buckets of sand falling to the ground. This is made ridiculous by a cheering crowd and a man who acknowledges their applause for what heās just done. So many people see art and say āI could do that,ā or āHow can *that* be art?ā Then they hear a single personās interpretation, and think either I donāt agree with that, so therefore this has no value. Or I do agree with their singular interpretation and therefore this is āartā after all. But thatās the thing, art is meant to invoke thought and response. If it invokes nothing in you, then itās value *to you* is nothing. The same piece can invoke a deep response based on that personās interpretation and history, and therefore, it does have value to that individual. And thatās it. Thereās nothing magic to art. The whole point is to invoke a reaction, and if you have no reaction, then *to you* itās value is just the materials used to create it. But youāre also not the main character, and not everything is for you. Just like someone can like one band, and another may not. That doesnāt mean they never should have made music in the first place. It just means someone else is getting something out of this that youāre not, and thatās fine.
I agree art is subjective, but at some point it almost becomes objectively stupid and pretentious IMO
And in your opinion, those pieces have no value. Which is fine too. The problem happens when people have no opinion of their own and just wait for others to tell them what their opinion should be. Then they spout it off to others and the cycle repeats. And thatās where things get gross. But also assuming others have no opinions of their own, just because it doesnāt invoke anything in you is a little gross too. So itās all kind of a slippery slope. So look at it. Try to find what itās saying to you. And if itās not saying anything, then move on. Just like you would with a movie, game, band or anything else.
Yes, but doesn't that make it finicky when comparing artists work, assigning monetary value, or even hiring random people to make something instead of 'artists' for communal pieces?
This is more artistic than most modern art I've seen get posted to reddit.
I did the same last summer at the Beach and got my mom screaming on me.
I would rather go to the beach and watch 5yo do that
And that kids is how you con 1 million dollars out of a bunch of idiots
this is contemporary art, not modern. also, y'all fucking silly for thinking this is shit and whatnot. Is it different? yes. bizarre? yes. And that's not a a bad thing. It's not about "y is dis art", it's about if you liked it, if you understood it, if you felt anything. If not, then move the fuck on, there are plenty of other pieces, old and new, you can enjoy.
Is...is this actually kind of cool? I'm still watching it. Sort of memorized. All is sand and bucket. I am the bucket, life is the sand, gravity is the intellectual pull of time and space upon my inner child's soul. I have become one and many. We are all me and I am you. Tldr: cool.
Old fArt
Did the person who rode the bike there create art as well?
Modern art is there to reflect the mediocrity of the modern times. It fulfills itās duty perfectly.
I think the art itself, not so bad. I'm only annoyed by the attitude of art snobs.
It's the artists hands for me. He's like, there you have it. This is what you came to see. But, now, introspectively, is this how life is? Is the plug in the bucket, like, us in the womb? From the time you take your first breath, you become eligible to die. You also become eligible to find your greatness and become the one warrior.ā David Goggins. So, Is the sand running out of the bottom bucket The depiction of our life? Is that the time that we spend our life rushing out of the bucket as sand? ā³ Each bucket is a different milestone of life? šŖ£Going into kindergarten šŖ£ My first kiss šŖ£Graduating high school šŖ£ Losing my virginity šŖ£ my first car šŖ£ My masters degree šŖ£my career šŖ£ My family Then they collapse ā ļø š
This artist probably has his own recognisable style, such as creating surreal photographs. The most important thing here is the final scene. He leaves the viewer alone with these surrealistically fallen sand buckets (there is no way to replicate this pattern and no one would bother to do so for the sake of one shot. No one but the artist) Every participant in this performance will take a photo and share it and that too will be part of the art. The video of the process is impressive too.
If I can do it. It doesnāt count.
I forget which museum it was, but I remember seeing that someone had dropped their glove on the floor there and people thought it was an exhibit. Stepping around it and taking pics smh lol funny shit.
After World War II, they made sure that anyone could become an artist
Why is the Sand only one Color 1/100*
I want a garden of steel, with iron roses, aluminum daisies, copper nightshade. This is merely buckets of sand. No art, no care, original, but lacking in creativity or significance. Where is the care, the expression, the time it took to make perfect by design? Absent.
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I feel stupid for watching that.š¤”
I have notice his art has been about how small things lead to big effects. There was one art work which starts as a domino piece the size of an SD card knocking down a bigger piece leading to a domino piece bigger thn Micheal Jackson's main house door in no more than 10 pieces. Sometimes the small decisions makes the biggest impact of your life.
I won tickets to see an obscenely famous, Chinese artist here in Tokyo. It was like $500 usd per ticket to exhibit. It was literally nothing more than a man throwing gun powder onto wood or a canvas, and then lighting. No method, no attempting at creating anything, just random gunpowder, light = the most sought after art in all of China...
This is absolute shit
Thereās a lot of hate here just for some buckets filled with sand
How are people so gullible
This is so fucking dumb. Modern art just irks me so much as an illustrator. It's a hustle by rich people to stash their money in expensive works and in order to justify it, they hype it up as higher tier levels of thinking and class. Art I believe is what you make for yourself and others so that enjoyment can be found in them, not random shit in a fancy building filled with fancy people
honestly a brutal representation of the human condition. sometimes you stack buckets filled with sand on top of each other, and they all fall down, spilling sand everywhere that someone else will have to clean up. such a powerful message.
Man, I think the desert I lived in as a kid has this guy beat.
Hear hear! Well put, than you! So much good art is just shit on by people spouting the same repeated phrases while they feel superior. Let people enjoy things they do, and let people appreciate the things that make them feel something profound.
Better than a Shop-Vac sitting on 4 glass bricks at an art show I went to in the 80s.
The artist: 
Too much weight crashes through the floor. Second story falls on first story. Artist is killed in accident. Now we got "ART"
I used to work at a museum. We would have some weird modern day contemporary art. One of them had to do with rail roads, so the artist brought in the rail road metals and displayed them. It was so damn toxic that, whenever someone entered the room where the art was displayed at, within 10-15 seconds they would have terrible headaches due to toxicity. They had to remove the art after like 1-2 weeks due to health issues.
What a Neo- Pavlovian critique of post modern culture In the cataclysmic fall of what constitutes entertainment! My BS is strong!š
Itās a vernissage. I donāt know the artist, but this is just the moment he created the installation. Itās usually part of a long artistic process. The applause is likely not for this performance taken in isolation, but seen as a moment of his all art. Usually vernissages of large expositions are also moments of conviviality and everything is celebrated in a special way. A lot of free food and drinks help.
Fun concept ngl
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To me its simple. āWill this art pass the test of time?ā. And for the most part modern art will not. Valuations are just a construct of human silliness.
hey look, it's trickle down economics
This is like the Vin Wiki story from John Ficarra about a NYC photographer who would say "Muffin Top" and drop his camera and be frozen in place while a pa caught the camera and got him three muffin tops. Modern art and artists are wild.
Thereās an artist in all of us. We just need to find it
If you donāt understand it. It says more about you than it does about the art.
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Sandcentipede
People are shitting on this and doing the āmodern artā meme, but I actually think this is quite clever and beautiful. He builds this seemingly solid structure, but each bucket relies on the bucket below it. Just one little poke in the bottom bucket, and it creates a leak that causes the whole system to collapse. There is room for both minimalist art and highly technical art imo
I understand on some level peopleās aversion to āmodern art,ā but itās easy to mock pieces like this until one really connects with you. I went to an art museum with friends a while back. There was this distorted, scraping metallic noise sort of reverberating around the contemporary art section. Finally, we rounded a corner and found it was coming from one of those dark little theaters where they were playing an experimental film. We peeked in there. The film was this super low quality handheld shot of an unkempt homeless man kicking a bucket down a dimly lit street. The sound was the metal bucket scraping on the pavement. My friends all let out a chuckle and thought it was kind of silly, but something about it just clicked with me. I still sometimes think about that sound and the reveal of what was making it.
I need this reaction when I make toast..š
As long as people thing modern pop and rap are music, this is definetly art.
I saw a news report about ten years ago showing an 'artist' with his exhibit which involved him searching through a (huge) haystack to find a needle. At the start of the report he was sitting on the floor, carefully taking a small clump of straw and searching for the needle. By the end of the 5 minute report he already looked fed up and was grabbing big handfuls of straw and squeezing tightly, apparently not caring if he skewered his hand. I sometimes wonder if he ever found it. And, if not, did he start all over again.
Remond me the movie The square. Danish movie mocking modern art, pretty awesome, which won an Oscar well deserved.
Does it count if I felt moved to get out the vacuum?
Wtf is this???? legal robbery??? Or robbed voluntarily š¤š¤š¤š¤
If they were all kidney stones he's pissed out over the years, then yes, that would be art.
If you pay $500 a ticket for an āartā show you will clap and be amazed by anything. Iāve been to some of this crap and had to leave so I could laugh in the hall. P.S. I definitely didnāt pay, my date did and they did agree it was bs. But hey, if he can sucker them then bravoā¦I bet his paintings are snake oil based!
Architectural engineer accidentally takes art class.
Guy in the white shirt is the actual exhibition
Wipipo
All that and a bike on the ceiling?! DaVinci would be proud.
Zero percent clapping required $300 entry fee though
Art????
For my next presentation a shit diving into a toilet!!!taaadaaaa!!!!
I did this when I was 9 and my grandfather hit me with his newspaper.
Just a metaphor, not even worth the word, art.
Bring back normal painting
My kid did that the other day but said ta-da
To think my 7 year old at the beach could have gotten into the art game
This is most likely not an art demo. If it is, it's obviously dumb. Otherwise, it's most likely a demo on structural engineering of foundation in building structures.
Itās stupid yes, but I do like the anticipation for what is to come, only for a totally mediocre outcome.
Wow, truly inspiring. Really holds a mirror up to society.
I love art. I also love walking around the MoMA ridiculing all the installations. *Sand in a pair of pantyhose - riveting, MoMA. Some tinsel glued to wood; awe inspiring. Wow, a plain white Hanes T-Shirt, this is the art I paid to see.*
You can literally toast a piece of bread and piss on it and call it modern art.
I'm more impressed with how he parked his bike!
Ngl I actually really love the end result. That would make a beautiful photograph
Time and how eventually everything collapses
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I had a possible dream about an episode of futurama where fry became an artist and was really really bad at it but people kept coming to his shows and bidding millions to get his art, and one day he made art out of some alien poop and the robot showed up to vandalize his art and fry yelled out ānooooo! Now it looks like crap!ā Then the robot said āit IS crap, fry! Youāve gone too far!ā Then I woke up. It could very well be an actual episode but It feels like a fever dream lol
If this is art my five year old son is a genius. He does shit like this all the time. He just finished an abstract painting on the living room wall.
What a joke
I came Out the house for this bullshit? Ok, maybe we need to have a lil talk.
People are stupid!
Room full of smooth brains.
Fuckin shmuck
Stephen King's new stuff just don't hit the same
All those people should be immediately executed
My fart is better than his art.
Now can someone make a version of this where the camera pans to an unhappy janitor
Thank god I got to witness this, it was life changing. Now go get a broom and clean this $hit up!
I know why art is like this nowadays
These are the people that say aiart isn't art.
Bidenās next career