Artistic Ape
This tale sums up the main reason for my utter contempt of modern (or rather post-modern) art.
A German art expert was fooled into believing a painting done by a chimpanzee was the work of a master.
The director of the State Art Museum of Moritzburg in Saxony-Anhalt, Katja Schneider, suggested the painting was by the Guggenheim Prize-winning artist Ernst Wilhelm Nay.
"It looks like an Ernst Wilhelm Nay. He was famous for using such blotches of colour," Dr Schneider confidently asserted.
The canvas was actually the work of Banghi, a 31-year-old female chimp at the local zoo.
Unfortunately, amusing anecdotes like this one aren't uncommon which displays how today's art scene is such a scam. I say bring back the days when artists painted beautiful French gardens (and women) and melting clocks.
A German art expert was fooled into believing a painting done by a chimpanzee was the work of a master.
The director of the State Art Museum of Moritzburg in Saxony-Anhalt, Katja Schneider, suggested the painting was by the Guggenheim Prize-winning artist Ernst Wilhelm Nay.
"It looks like an Ernst Wilhelm Nay. He was famous for using such blotches of colour," Dr Schneider confidently asserted.
The canvas was actually the work of Banghi, a 31-year-old female chimp at the local zoo.
Unfortunately, amusing anecdotes like this one aren't uncommon which displays how today's art scene is such a scam. I say bring back the days when artists painted beautiful French gardens (and women) and melting clocks.
posted by Engels at 12:56 pm
4 Comments:
I personally am all for beautiful french gardens (and women).
Melting clocks dont swing me either way, but i am partial to the odd long-legged elephant, and maybe a fractured egg or two...
Or a entwined couple eating themselves?
haha brilliant!
After wandering many modern art museums both here in london and throughout europe i would estimate it to be about 50/50 bullshit. My personal favourite is a room in the tate modern. Some genuis put 5 or so cameras in their 'art' studio overnight. These 5 images are now projected onto the walls of this room at this museum, each filtered with a different colour. Maybe if you sit there for 5 hours, you might even see a rat run across the red one...apparently...
They probably get laid all the time too ;)
They get laid too, eh? See my previous entry...
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