Would You Consider This Art?

I don't like it

I can see the art galleries tripping over each other to host his show.

"better buy thhem before thheyre all gone'

Yikes, I hope that's non-toxic paint/dye he used.....

Oh, this is the goldfish-in-a-working-blender guy.

Hmm.

I'm not an artist, nor have I studied art, but this guy is whacked. If nothing else, he shouldn't be polluting the environment in this manner.

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It does nothing for me, but I don't respond to ANY environmental art. It may just be me.

my initial impression was a bit of what everyone has posted.

Makes me think of seal pup slaughters...

He could have done the same thing with photoshop.

Well, it would be a trip to be tooling along in your icebreaker and see that thing floating around. The "paint" is just the stuff they slap on the meat in the deli case -- probably many, many times that much gets pissed into American toilets every month. Just so long as I don't have to pay for it...

I think it's a better prank than art.

A purely semantic question...

High sea graffiti

I remember Hi-C.

I agree with everyone's responses here but for different reasons. I don't see how anything can be labeled as 'art' when it involves virtually no creative effort on the part of the 'artist.' Ceili calls it 'high sea graffiti.' Actually, graffiti has more of a claim to being 'art.' It involves a person holding a tool -- spray paint can, piece of chalk, brush, whatever -- and creating something on a surface. That's a form of artistic expression. But directing a crew of workers to spray-paint a bit of nature is more in the way of group vandalism than artistic expression. The artist did nothing except come up with the idea and hire the people to do the work.

I'm surprised, though, that so far nobody on this thread has come up with a defense for this desecration. There are prople out there who would consider this an artistic expression.

If it's 100% safe to the environment, I like it.

As to whether it's art or not, I'm not sure.

I'm sure. It's art. Is it Art? Not really.

Art is a way of looking at things. It's something-that-is-more-than-the-sum-of-its-parts. Take, for example, the Mona Lisa. Just some colors slapped onto a piece of canvas. Why should that one piece of canvas be any different than any other? Because the artist made it so.

Well... I'm an outcast anyway, because I think Christo (wrapped Riechtag, wrapped Pont Neuf, surrounded Islands, Running Fence) is a great artist.

I think Andrew Goldsworthy is a great artist. Look for the movie Rivers and Tides...

I'm not sure if I care whether or not it is art, as long as I like it. Which I do. I've seen pics of the Riechtag piece, and I liked that as well.

I had a look at his site as i couldn't get the pictures to come up on the link. Not for me,

I agree about Andy Goldworthy - he is imaginative and creative with great skill and intellect and his images are very beautiful

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