I will admit that I am
not a person who would describe himself as an art aficionado. I
still don't understand the eye rolls and comments I get when people
see my painting of dogs playing poker. This artwork is great to me.
The looks on the dog's faces and them having bottles and glasses of
booze next to them is too funny to me. I laugh each time I see it.
One of these days, I'll work up the nerve to bring it up from the
storage area in my basement and hang it in my living room. When my
wife is far away, and I have advance notice she is coming back, so I
can put back down in the basement before she gets home.
It appears those art
watching museum aficionado types who think they are so brilliant when
it comes to knowing art seems like they should learn how to
appreciate my dogs playing poker picture. A pair of glasses left on
a museum's floor was thought to be art. It seems these hoity-toity
art loving types started taking pictures of the pair of glasses. If
they think this is art, they should come to my house. We have so
much art. There is the yet-to-be-put-away DVD display as well as
unfinished books piled up in a corner of the living room. This, of
course, is nothing compared to the stuff-to-be-put-in-the-attic
display. We of course also have the artistic display in the basement
and garage of things not used for decades. Maybe we should charge
art lovers a fee to see our house and give a hoity-toity art loving
type discount.
Below are excerpts from
the story with my valuable insights in italics.
A
pair of glasses were left on the floor at a museum and everyone
mistook it for art
The
teen behind the hoax had similar success with a baseball cap and a
bin
Well, I guess that
tells you all you need to know about art. Who needs to spend time
studying art in art school and perfecting their artwork? It seems
all they need to do is put a bin and baseball cap in a museum for
their work to be considered art.
“I've spent years
perfecting my painting style.”
“I've spent years
perfecting my sculpting abilities.”
“I've spent years
developing my abilities to create various type of artwork.'
“Unless any of this
involves a baseball cap or bin, we can't have your work in our
museum.”
“Oh.”
Several
visitors to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art this week were
fooled into thinking a pair of glasses set on the floor by a
17-year-old prankster was a postmodern masterpiece.
“We
stumbled upon a stuffed animal on a gray blanket and questioned if
this was really impressive to some of the nearby people.”
To
test out the theory that people will stare at, and try and
artistically interpret, anything if it’s in a
gallery setting, Khayatan set a pair of glasses down and walked away.
Soon,
people began to surround them, maintaining a safe distance from the
‘artwork’ and several of them taking pictures.
What does this say
about hoity-toity art aficionado types? It tells me they should
never say anything negative about my poker playing dog picture. I
hope my wife doesn't find the one with cats playing poker. It has
them smoking and drinking, it's so funny. This picture really
complements my dogs playing poker picture.
If I saw someone
admiring a pair of glasses on a floor as art, I would be telling them
they could have the glasses for a reasonable price of a few thousand
dollars. It is an original work of art. No other pair of glasses
have the exact same type of scratches as this type of art. I would
then invite them to a personal showing of the various pairs of
artwork involving glasses at my house. They're done by a true
master. We're talking old prescription glasses, reading glasses, old
sunglasses, 3-D glasses from movies. If hoity-toity art aficionado s
want this type of art, I can give them this type of original art for
a reasonable price. With all the stuff in my house, I bet I have
created a type of hoity-toity art aficionado nirvana. I would have
to stipulate my dogs and cat playing poker pictures are off limits.
I
like to think they imagined the floored glasses to represent the
dumbing down of culture, or perhaps the viewing of life through a
lens, possibly with a nice, lower-case title like 'myopia' or 'real
eyes (real lies)'.
Now, I think that is
fantastic. How about I imagine the glasses on the floor are
representing an inability to see the truth of the world. I think
these glasses are a symbol of people being given a choice to see the
reality of the world where they live or not. The lenses are the
gateway to an understanding of society as well as our world. I would
give the glasses on the floor a title like Blind to BS or Only What a
Fool Can See. I'm getting so good at this, I bet I could be given
official hoity-toity art aficionado status.
“Some
may interpret it as a joke, some might find great spiritual meaning
in it. At the end of the day, I see it as a pleasure for open-minded
people and imaginative minds.”
I would also like to
suggest if you find great spiritual meaning in seeing a pair of
glasses on a museum floor, you may need to seek some professional
help. What they call people with imaginative minds who are
open-minded, I call people who are a bit gullible and not the
sharpest tools in the shed. Thinking that glasses on the floor, a
bin or a stuffed animal on a gray blanket as great art makes no
sense. I think my pictures of dogs and playing poker makes more
sense. It is just a shame my wife doesn't have the same level of art
sophistication as myself.
Below
is a link to the article.
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