Posted on 05/27/2016 6:25:04 AM PDT by JoeProBono
SAN FRANCISCO, - A group of pranksters confused visitors at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art by placing a pair of eyeglasses on the gallery floor.
TJ Khayatan shared photos of the prank to his Twitter page showing groups of patrons observing the glasses while some even photographed them.
Khayatan told Buzzfeed that he and his friends came up with the idea after observing one piece on display in the museum that they found puzzling.
"We stumbled upon a stuffed animal on a gray blanket and questioned if this was really impressive to some of the nearby people," he said.
The group then decided to leave the glasses on the floor and watched as several visitors gathered around to observe the "art."
Khayatan was surprised by both the reaction to the prank and its viral success, but said that his group generally enjoyed the museum's exhibits.
"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," he said.
Visionary art. ;)
They are so blind (by their self-reflected “brilliance” repeated so often for so long inside the “artistic” communities) that they cannot see.
After talking about a few of the pieces in the room, on a lark I walked over to the corner and began to describe the humidigraph as a lat 20th century version of Dada-esque art, how it represented the constant measuring and graphing of people in contemporary society and how one loses one's basic humanity in the process. I would have gotten away with it too, if the museum guard behind the group hadn't started laughing his head off at the explanation.
Wait til they see the restroom deposit-art
This piece is in the Philly Art Museum
Marcel Duchamp - “L.H.O.O.Q.”, 1919. Dada Art -
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/64/0f/9a/640f9abf0d0b64769cbb24337bf04ec8.jpg
OMG, that is worse than that tie-died bull’s-eye the Wookie stuck up in the White House dining room.
I’ve been to the MOMA quite a few times and this does not surprise me.
I’d hit it.
That’s not L.H.O.O.Q. That piece is a print of the Mona Lisa with a penciled goatee and inscribed with the title. When pronounced correctly the title in French basically means “she has a hot ass”.
The CIA funded modern art to bug the uptight commies in the cold war.
Modern art was CIA ‘weapon’
Revealed: how the spy agency used unwitting artists such as Pollock and de Kooning in a cultural Cold War - Saturday 21 October 1995
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/modern-art-was-cia-weapon-1578808.html
Correct,Link from poster is this:
Etant donnes (1946-66)
Artwork description & Analysis: Installed behind a heavy wooden door that was found in Spain and shipped to New York, Etant donnes consists of a diorama viewed through two eyeholes. The scene depicts a nude woman, possibly dead, with her legs splayed, holding an illuminated gas lamp. A mountainous landscape, based on a photo Duchamp shot in Switzerland, creates the background setting. Built in secret over a period of more than twenty years, Etant donnes is considered Duchamp’s second major work. He made an entire manual for its installation, which is reproduced in facsimile and available in print. At first glance, Etant donnes is a direct reference to Courbet’s painting, Origine du Monde (1866). Yet upon closer consideration, the piece can be viewed as a reflection on the boundaries between artist and spectator, as a means to question self-consciousness, or as a meditation on spiritual purpose through the symbolism of a lit lamp.
Painted wood, latex, and fabric - Philadelphia Museum of Art
Yeah but you’d just be pounding the rubble
Yeah, that'd be cool.
Not unusual, most people in San Francisco are mistaken for Americans, ...
they are not.
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