Someone wanna explain to me what the buck this is?

You got that right. Todays "art" is just a bunch of crap. No real meaning or feeling. My brother showed me a picture of a vertical line, it went for 30,000 dollars. That is so stupid.

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Art is subjective. I feel it's just kind of mean to be like "what the crap?" Unless it's that paint splatter stuff. That I don't understand, but I don't go off on it. Just because you don't understand the point of it doesn't mean that it's any less art.

That being said, it's very well done. I'd love to see this in person someday. Do you know the name of it or where it's at? I want to look up more about it.

 

Unfortunatly, this is what happened to Art ^^

Now, i'm all for Art expressing yourself, but for something like this to sell for $140mil (roughly £88mil), then I feel I wasted my drawings as a kid

 

^ that how is that art. I can do that. Why don't mine sell for huge sums of cash. Dumb world.

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Did you do research and look into the artist's intended message, any context, or explanation? Art cannot truly communicate without proper context, and oftentimes pieces require a little bit more than simply looking at a photo of them to fully understand.
Now, I also get that you might be fully right, but, at the same time, this picture was clearly meant more for shock value and is without any sort of background here. I mean, maybe you went to the museum and saw it personally, but I certainly haven't, so I myself cannot make a judgement call.

Every piece of art, no matter if grotesque, beautiful, or just plain confusing, has a story. Now, sometimes that story is not that deep or meaningful, but it still is necessary to see the full picture.

 

It seems that Troll gave the Bull to many Bean Burritos,Causing the bull to slam the Troll into the wall with its UberFart.





You know if a Vertical line passes as art i should be a billionaire.

That Also gave me an idea for a life size WW2 Model Diorama.

 

True the only new one i liked was."Squidward in Clarinet Land"AKA Squidwards Acid Trip.

I really like abstract worlds.

 

I wish I could help you, but I've never heard of it, and I can't imagine who the artist is or what the name would be. Hopefully someone will come along with a little background eventually, but it's difficult even to google properly, since I'm not really sure what is going on.

 

i know of something more stupid, there was once app called the million dollar app or something like that, that was worth exactly the price it was called, it was nothing but a little fancy screen on your iphone/ipod, it got 7 buyers

apple took it down but still people but stuff stupider

 

Im gonna draw a picture of a pencil and sell it for 10,000$.

 

I think it's funny. Art didn't die, it just changed form, like it does every century or so. You can't really classify something with a set label as good or bad. Just because a select few aren't a fan of a certain piece doesn't mean it isn't art. Art is just art, if you get my gist. It just is, when it comes down to it, art is not good or bad, it simply is what it is.

 

Well, it's best not to jump to assumptions, particularly not negative ones. Granted, there is better evidence for your point to remain that has been pointed out here, but the weird seemingly farting bull simply will have to remain as evidence to neither side, at least until someone figures out exactly what it is. For example, it could be the Wall Street Bull, some other bull, or who knows what any of this actually means, it could mean nothing. But until it is proven that it does mean nothing, the better option is just to ignore it.

 

...Isn't art just Grand? Anything is possible.

 

The sculpture is by the Chinese artist Chen Wenling and is titled "What You See Might Not Be Real" As for the story behind the artwork, well, I haven't found anything yet.

For now I'll simply say, don't judge a book by it's cover, or in this case a farting bull. Also, art isn't necessarily meant to be nice, wonderful or beautiful. Do I like it personally? No, not really, but then I don't have a lot to go by.

EDIT:
The man being pinned to the wall is Bernie Madoff, "the admitted operator of a Ponzi scheme that is considered to be the largest financial fraud in U.S. history."

The Bull is representative of Wall Street, the Charging or Wall Street Bull, which is a sculpture of it's own accord.

"The sculpture was created by Chen Wenling to illustrate the global financial crisis. It is now on display in Beijing."

 

well that title makes absolutely no sense, but at least it opens an avenue to finding out more!
EDIT: apparently, the farting is actually a metaphorical pun based on the Chinese language. This is actually pretty interesting, particularly compared to Chen's other works, which I find a little monotone.
DOUBLEEDIT: I was right! The Bull is Wall Street! 10 points for Hufflepuff!