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johnp3907

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22. "I've got a brillo box and I say it's art."

Reply to CTyankee (Original post)

Sat Aug 22, 2015, 12:58 PM

Aug 2015

"It's the same one you can buy in any supermarket.
'Cause I've got the style it takes..."

Frank Zappa always maintained that the most important thing in art is the frame. I agree.

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Of �Brillo Boxes� and �Campbell�s Soup Cans� by Andy Warhol [View all] CTyankee Aug 2015 OP

If you have a chance to go to the Warhol museum in Pittsburgh, you should go. FSogol Aug 2015 #1

Thanks. I'm trying to get to MoMA for the soup cans with my art buddy... CTyankee Aug 2015 #2

Last Fall, I was visiting relatives in Pittsburgh and took my family there. We loved it and spent FSogol Aug 2015 #3

I am sure of that! It was such a smokestack place when I was at CMU... CTyankee Aug 2015 #4

This message was self-deleted by its author edhopper Aug 2015 #15

Soup or art? Makes me think of Lily Tomlin and Jane Wagner's character Trudy explaining human Bluenorthwest Aug 2015 #5

I got a HUGE laugh out of that! It's wonderful! CTyankee Aug 2015 #6

It is a running motif/gag in the play and in Lily's amazing performance of it it was very funny and Bluenorthwest Aug 2015 #7

some people get really annoyed with that answer and it makes me wonder... CTyankee Aug 2015 #8

"But is it art?" gratuitous Aug 2015 #9

well, there is a difference between satire and art or at least I think there is... CTyankee Aug 2015 #10

It's art edhopper Aug 2015 #11

there are so many philosophical dimensions to Warhol's work as it progresses CTyankee Aug 2015 #12

The tragedy of Van Gogh was edhopper Aug 2015 #18

He was pretty sick, IIRC. I did an essay here on Starry Night... CTyankee Aug 2015 #19

No question he had serious mental illness edhopper Aug 2015 #20

First I'll address Danto edhopper Aug 2015 #13

So what you are saying I think is that functionality is pretty much key here. CTyankee Aug 2015 #14

Yes edhopper Aug 2015 #16

About Warhol edhopper Aug 2015 #17

I read that Warhol had originally wanted to do comic book art but Roy beat him to CTyankee Aug 2015 #21

This Rockwell edhopper Aug 2015 #32

it's funny, he's trying for all those great artists and he gets this...it shows he was CTyankee Aug 2015 #34

Rococo edhopper Aug 2015 #38

mine too. By far. Mannerism is another, with a very few exceptions. CTyankee Aug 2015 #40

Magritte kinda did the same thing (love your avatar!)... CTyankee Aug 2015 #28

The Magrtitte show at MOMA a few years ago edhopper Aug 2015 #29

I need a better explanation of his surrealism. This could take all day... CTyankee Aug 2015 #31

Juxtaposition of things that are related in some way, edhopper Aug 2015 #33

Thanks. But I do think Magritte had a sneaky kind of sense of humor in his works. CTyankee Aug 2015 #35

Oh edhopper Aug 2015 #37

how does This is not a Pipe fit your definition of surrealism, tho? CTyankee Aug 2015 #39

Surrealism is more than strange paintings edhopper Aug 2015 #47

Ah. This is what I get, too. CTyankee Aug 2015 #48

Pollack, yes. edhopper Aug 2015 #49

"I've got a brillo box and I say it's art." johnp3907 Aug 2015 #22

That's a great song. I didn't know it. CTyankee Aug 2015 #24

It's from the album Songs For Drella. johnp3907 Aug 2015 #27

I agree with this entire post. I think these works are, in part, a commentary RadiationTherapy Aug 2015 #23

so much research is possible now and sharing of images. I couldn't do this without CTyankee Aug 2015 #25

I have stopped answering that question. blogslut Aug 2015 #26

You can drive yourself nuts trying to solve that question... CTyankee Aug 2015 #30

Back in the 70s I went to the grocery and bought a box of brillos. PufPuf23 Aug 2015 #36

I love it! What a great story! CTyankee Aug 2015 #41

Can of Spam PufPuf23 Aug 2015 #45

Oh, boy! Now you've got my heart! Not with Spam which I would never even try to eat CTyankee Aug 2015 #46

This should probably be posted here: johnp3907 Aug 2015 #42

There you go... CTyankee Aug 2015 #43

Nice! johnp3907 Aug 2015 #44

kick Liberal_in_LA Aug 2015 #50