Comments on: A Heartbreaking Mistake of Staggering Genius

By: kate

kate — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 14:54:24 +0000

Go Janitor! I’d say the biggest mistake would be if that gallery paid for the “artist” to trash it.

I’ve also thought that modern art would be the way to make a few bucks if things ever get rough. Draw a blue line or something on a canvas and then give it some pretentious/obscure name (“Isolation”, “Enigma of the Xanadu Termite”). Gold!

By: donner

donner — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 14:17:20 +0000

thank god the artist didn’t freak out that some poor janitor came in and essentially did his job…at least he wasn’t fired or told to pay for the ‘art’…

I still like the artist who I saw on 60 Minutes who put a sheet of plywood under glass, hung it on the wall, and asked thousands of dollars for it…the stupid people who BUY crap like that are the real fools…ha…

By: Patrick B

Patrick B — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 13:10:10 +0000

With you guys all the way.
Sometimes I think modern art is the “Emperor’s New Clothes” effect.
No one wants to say it’s crap, in case they are seen as being uncultured or lacking finesse. It takes a hard working janitor to see what is. A room full of trash is just that, trash.

Go ahead and flame away. I rarely come back to see if I get responses.

By: Benjamin M. Strozykowski

Benjamin M. Strozykowski — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 11:12:18 +0000

@Dawn I am the same way. Flame me if you will, but I despise Jackson Pollack.

“Look at me, I can drizzle paint, and drop my cigarette butts when I’m done.”

By: Dawn

Dawn — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 10:40:00 +0000

Oy. I truly dislike much of modern “art” and the windbags who “create” it.

Yay for the janitor!