Micky Flanagan Takes On Modern Art - Class Dismissed - BBC Two

[TheFaustianMan]

Oh and that type of modern art, specifically the canvas titled "Spatial Concept, Waiting" is precisely the thing that started Pete Townshend of The Who to smash his guitar. I didn't hear the lower and middle class say, "that's not performance, that's demolition ... anyone could break a guitar."

Try it mates, and I guarantee you, it won't look as good as watch?v=IB-rTJiajjM

[TheFaustianMan]

I love it when the middle class panders to lower and middle classes for money. Wow. Just another, "I could do that." And yet, they never do. If they do, they are certainly never first. Ironically, they are the first to defend how hard telling jokes on stage is.

I guess he never heard the function of art is "to to hold as 'twere the

mirror up to nature: to show virtue her feature, scorn her own

image, and the very age and body of the time his form and

pressure."- Hamlet Act 3, scene 2, 17–24

[garbidz]

bonkers.

[pgI0897]

Never mind modern art. It's art in general. Just a forum for people to spout bollocks, about bollocks. "it's not just a pile of bricks, it's the space around the bricks that is so engaging". Fuck off.

[RHINO33SJR]

For God's sake Micky,lend this pompous twat some of your hair mate. Who do these people think they are? They are creating an industry out of shite.....bit like Argos LOL

Micky F.you are a legend

[Trookieness]

Speaking as a middle-class art student..... I have to agree 100% with Micky. XD Stuff like that makes me wonder why I'm even bothering aiming for an artistic career, haha.

[Emmbrace]

Modern art is simply pretentious. I can understand art that involves some skill, like sculptures, paintings. You know, proper art.

[supakane]

Micky Flanagan is art.

[paddyt007]

Thats modern art? I think I've found my calling.

[naturalbiologist]

I see he was moved from the van Gogh exhibit.

[Siege2342]

My family is middle class, my mother likes modern art, whilst my father and I go round the gallery taking the piss out of it, observe;

"Katie, what do you think this 'master piece interprets?"

"How modern artists are the greatest conmen of out time, dear father!"

*The piece of 'artwork' was a blank canvas with a red square on... are you fucking serious?*

[myoldreteacher]

I like Modern Art, but he's right... people would come to see "Cock on a mirror", and then deconstruct it in some pretentious manner!

[hollyandthewolves]

So many people dismiss modern art by saying "I could do that". Yes, but, you didn't. Art isn't about how you do things any more, it's what you do - what you CHOOSE to do. Isn't the total dismissal of things viewed as bourgeois its own kind of snobbery?

[somegalfromcan]

@hollyandthewolves I've got a mirror in my bathroom - is that art???

[hollyandthewolves]

@somegalfromcan Obviously not. But a mirror in a gallery is. What's it saying about the nature of art? Or the way we view art? or what we're really looking at when we look at art?

[T800System]

modern art is just cultural snobbery. Plain and simple.

[borednerd74]

The first two I guess could be called art, even if it is unskilled. The mirror... they haven't even done anything. If they thought that mirrors are meaningful in an artistic way, that's one thing, but just taking the mirror and putting it in a gallery isn't commenting anything. A mirror with a cock on it? Now that is art.

[ajdabf]

@borednerd74 Totally agree with you!

[mallpunk182]

@borednerd74 tell me about it I went to some gallery like this in Manchester and one of the pieces was a blank canvas and I'm thinking a million people could produce this, yet the first guy to hand over a blank canvas to an art gallery gets recognised

[DemiandSelenafanone]

I don't understand modern art either...

[st3ff3v]

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