[C210N]

First impressions is usually correct

[Bayard]

Literally anyone can make this, why does something so reproducable and familiar count as art?

[Migraine]

Well, at least I’ll bet the beer was awesome...

[uranium penguin]

Call me crazy...

But when “art” is “disguised” as trash. And is easily mistaken for trash. And then thrown away by janitors.

You’re doing it wrong.

[PeterPrinciple]

All The Good Times We Spent Together by French artist Alexandre Lavet shows two dented beer cans on the floor. They were exhibited inside the museum’s lift as if left behind by construction workers.

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Cleaning crew interpreted it correctly.

[Red Badger]

[PGR88]

[dfwgator]

Sounds like the kind of thing I could do, and if I could do it, it ain’t art.

[catnipman]

just goes to show you that one man’s trash is another man’s trash ...

[catnipman]

they’d be better off if the lift technicians were the museum art curators ...

[bobbo666]

The caption is cute. Remember, if you can, all the times you sat with a bud drinking a can together. There is meaning in that.

Much more than some can of tomato soup.

[monkeyshine]

360 degrees of absurdity

[bgill]

There you go, kids. Next time mama tells you to clean your room, tell her it is art. But don’t be surprised when she adds the kitchen garbage to it and takes away your phone.

[Pete from Shawnee Mission]

When the "Putzfrau" tossed these into the "Mülleimer" they should have happily acknowledged the transition from Scam-art to Performance Scam-art and proudly displayed it with the upgrade surface "Schmutz".

[Rio]

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Artwork? I remember an art show in which a piece of I beam was sawed almost through, bent at a 45 degree angle, sand blasted, painted an orange color and put on display. The critics raved!
I was doing the same thing with I beam and angle iron at a steel fabrication shop a few miles away for electrical transmission towers. No one called what I did “art” as it was for industrial use.

An art teacher told me of a man who bought up a number of snow shovels. He then put his signature on each one with a Magic Marker and sold them as “art”.

[NowApproachingMidnight]

Thankfully they found it. Wow. Meticulously painted, and beautiful piece.

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ART SERVES NO OTHER PURPOSE

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Painting a replica of a face because you don't have a camera is not art. People are not artistic in the general sense of the meaning. Art should make you speechless and devoid of feeling or emotion. Art serves no other purpose. It's not political, it's not beautiful (per se), it's not emotional, it's hard to do. Art.

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Many believe, I think falsely, that art should be pretty or sanctimonious. I went to La Biennale di Venezia this year, and the most artistic pavilion was the Japanese, I think. It was fruit, plugged into electricity, generating sound and emotion. Wiped away after for all eternity. Concept, traverses, and somehow holy.

[CIB-173RDABN]

If you can not literally tell the difference between the “art” and trash, it is trash.

[Billthedrill]

Ah, but the art isn’t what’s on the wall. The art is convincing some poor schmuck to pay big money for it.

[Paal Gulli]

What you see above is not half-finished drywall repair, it is Mark Rothko's 1956 composition, the brilliantly-named "Orange, Red, Yellow." It sold at auction in 2012 for $86.9 million USD.

This is where I mention that abstract art was monetized by the CIA as a Cold War tool to convince the Russians that Americans were so intellectual, so progressive, and so cosmopolitan that there simply was no chance they could be vanquished by a bunch of Russian peasants.

But one of the lasting consequences of that clandestine operation is that abstract "art" remains monetized. Because what the paining above is actually a textbook example of is a kindergarten student's fingerpainting.

So bravo, Allen Dulles! Nicely done!