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13. Next time you visit an art installation, spose'

Sat Sep 28, 2013, 08:21 AM

Sep 2013

You take a bag full of stickers or some other temporary thing and plaster them all over the art. See how well that works for you.

You'll be an artist! Or not, to the people who came to see the original Art for its value to them.

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Alexander Calder's grandson dismayed as another artist uses sculpture for his own art [View all] UrbScotty Sep 2013 OP

It looks like the artist who put the flowers on there punked the stodgy, pretentious art world. Skinner Sep 2013 #1

Hear, hear. Daemonaquila Sep 2013 #3

Well it's clear you've never seen it Skinner, nor are you aware of MichiganVote Sep 2013 #6

Hunh? Hissyspit Sep 2013 #7

Next time you visit an art installation, spose' MichiganVote Sep 2013 #13

Except this isn't a case of someone slapping stickers on a work of art without permission. Skinner Sep 2013 #19

And it is bad Art. If the guy wanted to make a flower child MichiganVote Sep 2013 #27

I'm not incensed by the letter. Skinner Sep 2013 #30

:) Yes, good discussion. But no, Alexander Calder will never be part of MichiganVote Sep 2013 #39

You can be thrown out of some museums for pulling out a little bottle of water... CTyankee Sep 2013 #22

My son is an archivist, he could tell you stories. MichiganVote Sep 2013 #40

I always like to talk to the guards, too. I often ask them if they have many people who break down CTyankee Sep 2013 #43

Ah! That is interesting. Sometimes the stories about art or artists surpass MichiganVote Sep 2013 #45

Oh, I'm retired. I'm just obsessed with art. CTyankee Sep 2013 #46

That's awesome. If money were no object, I would visit as many great museums as I could. MichiganVote Sep 2013 #48

I live pretty modestly, drive an old car, stick to a budget, don't buy many clothes... CTyankee Sep 2013 #49

Someday Europe...I have been to Boston and NY. MichiganVote Sep 2013 #52

Try www.roadscholar.org if you are 45 or older... CTyankee Sep 2013 #53

Thanks! n/t MichiganVote Sep 2013 #54

To be clear, I wasn't suggesting that this temporary installation was an improvement... Skinner Sep 2013 #8

Protecting Art is not as simple as it sounds. Given the MichiganVote Sep 2013 #15

I dunno, Skinner...I kinda think once a work has left the hands of an artist, it has its own CTyankee Sep 2013 #20

I agree about the word "provincial". Skinner Sep 2013 #31

Actually, you'd be surprised how petty sounding some of the sniping in the art world gets... CTyankee Sep 2013 #32

I once learned that in the 17th century, the last act of Shakespeare's "King Lear" was rewritten CTyankee Sep 2013 #21

And the Bible has been re written how many times? Never thought about MichiganVote Sep 2013 #29

I really don't know what the folks in Grand Rapids were thinking...maybe they were of the CTyankee Sep 2013 #33

Somebody's idea of a way to call attention to Art Prize. MichiganVote Sep 2013 #38

Well, I wondered that, too. But that seems like a pretty crass thing to do. CTyankee Sep 2013 #41

I don't know how many years ago it was, but I recall that there MichiganVote Sep 2013 #47

That is an interesting piece. I loved it. CTyankee Sep 2013 #50

Glad you liked it. I used to call it Bland Rapids. It was impossible MichiganVote Sep 2013 #51

Mona Lisa is a popular subject for art parody, so that's probably not a 'best' example... MADem Sep 2013 #63

And so has the Calder. But not the original work of art. That's just wrong. MichiganVote Oct 2013 #71

Well, the statues in Trafalgar square were dressed up for the Olympics, MADem Oct 2013 #72

Post removed Post removed Sep 2013 #14

Absolutely correct. But of course he wouldn't be stodgy about it. Right? MichiganVote Sep 2013 #16

+1 Octafish Sep 2013 #36

Wow--- this provincial happenstance!!!!!!!!! MADem Sep 2013 #42

Looks pretty ugly with or without flowers. nt valerief Sep 2013 #2

To hear the guy talk, those flower stickers JoeyT Sep 2013 #4

If somebody calls it an abomination, it must be great art. tclambert Sep 2013 #5

yes. mopinko Sep 2013 #25

well, then, the art world has always sucked. CTyankee Sep 2013 #34

it has become a bit of a joke that mopinko Sep 2013 #35

color is so important to the human palate (just as it is to the artist's palette). CTyankee Sep 2013 #37

LOL WCLinolVir Sep 2013 #56

I miss reading Royko almost as much as Terkel. IrishAyes Sep 2013 #58

and to replace him with john cass- mopinko Sep 2013 #61

I think that the flowers are gaudy and ugly. JDPriestly Sep 2013 #9

sounds like most of you... Vestigial_Sister Sep 2013 #10

The flower at the bottom right looks like a penis. Flying Squirrel Sep 2013 #11

Flaccid art! MsInformed Sep 2013 #24

Seems it reached its goal. Mass Sep 2013 #12

Calder�s �La Grande Vitesse� was the first public sculpture funded by the National Endowment Bluenorthwest Sep 2013 #17

+1 MichiganVote Sep 2013 #18

One can do a single good thing, and then do a very stupid thing---nearly forty years later. MADem Sep 2013 #44

The Calder foundation was protecting its "franchise" which it has every right to do... CTyankee Sep 2013 #60

The derivative artist had permission from the city, though, according to the article. MADem Sep 2013 #62

The city did a dumb thing. They should have known better, but, ah, the follies CTyankee Oct 2013 #65

The guy put a few magnetic flowers on an ugly ass sculpture, with permission of the people who MADem Oct 2013 #66

I think that's great! But again, you realized these are Photoshopped, right? CTyankee Oct 2013 #67

But he's using the essential essence of the work--the thing that makes the statue special MADem Oct 2013 #69

these are fun, I agree! CTyankee Oct 2013 #70

I think it's hilarious when they put him in a speedo, or what-have-you.... MADem Oct 2013 #73

Hawaiian shirt Friday? MsInformed Sep 2013 #23

Looks like shit. Iggo Sep 2013 #26

It's not permanent and it was Tien1985 Sep 2013 #28

So bad in so many ways. WCLinolVir Sep 2013 #55

Calder and his pal Duchamp are chuckling. sofa king Sep 2013 #57

I'm with you!!! nt MADem Sep 2013 #64

Can't say I approve altering masterpieces at all. IrishAyes Sep 2013 #59

I had the same experience with Vermeer's View of Delft... CTyankee Oct 2013 #68

I remember some a-hole... sofa king Oct 2013 #74

Well, there was one later alteration by the artist himself that I appreciated on one occasion. IrishAyes Oct 2013 #75