howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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a fine example of post modernist art with just a hint of the abstract was seen this morning in clarendon field.
the creator seems to have suffered for his art by imbibing the contents of this super strength lager can before designing his masterpiece.
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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Was he still lying open-mouthed underneath it, Howard? That would of course be performance art!
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
Guest 703- Registered: 30 Jul 2010
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Howard, we have a colleague of his who is creating a dynamic work with dog poo bags blowing in the wind from trees. I think he's trying to say something about nature and recycling.
Would you like me to take a picture and add it to the gallery?
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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that would be very interesting ray, sounds very avant garde.
incidentally i e mailed tracey emin for her opinion on the beer can she replied that it was crass and done by someone with no talent.
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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She should know.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
Guest 719- Registered: 11 Jul 2011
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here is one of our feathered freinds haveing a drink of foster,s
and then haveing a nap afterward,s
Yorkshire Born And Yorkshire Bred
Brian Dixon
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ted,dose that come with orange sause.
Guest 719- Registered: 11 Jul 2011
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Yes Brian
Yorkshire Born And Yorkshire Bred
Guest 640- Registered: 21 Apr 2007
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I might have to disagree with Tracey Emin there...the real genius here is placing the beer can upside down. This is a bitter analysis of the part down-under has played in modern consumption and indeed modern consumerism. They, the Australians, tackled western culture with shoulder shrugging cheek and didnt give a damn about our traditions with Rubens and Van Gogh. This caused widespread affront in the beer houses of Munich and Amsterdam who still prefer a Holstein with their Rubens. So I see what the artist was trying to do here...he was calling for a return to our previous glories in art music and wine and sticking an artistic two fingers up at Modernism.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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thanks for simplifying things paul, for a moment there i thought it might be complicated.
Guest 650- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Ah, indeed, this artwork is genius, and Paul's interpretation skilfully reveals one of its many facets. The installation is indeed a powerful critique, commendable in its readability from so many perspectives. Observe the contextual juxtaposition of the straight-lined fence created from wood that has long since ceased to live. This reveals the imposition of artificiality on the natural landscape and enables also a feminist evaluation of the dominance of man over the natural - reflected powerfully also in the brilliant blue of the focal cylinder in comparison with the paler, perhaps thereby sick and sadder blue of the sky behind, to which the cylinder is disdainfully pointing.
However, such a critique from a staunchly structural perspective may be also a little passé, and herein lies the brilliance of the work. For it is also firmly postmodern, as the creation reveals an intrinsic playfulness.
Regard the amusing performances of the viewer, who has to bend, duck, bow, and even turn round and double over to the upsidedown view between his legs of the installation, before the symbolism of the characters placed upon the focal cylinder may be decoded into meaningful significance. Here too is an echo of the former critique, in that the decoded symbols which may be read as "crest" may also conjure up connotations of manhood, which the viewer's final position renders him in an ideal situation to observe. Indeed, as the appearance of the cylinder is one which may be colloquially known as "beer can" the choreography of the installation also considers the correlationary effects of combining brewer with manhood.
Here too is a playfulness with words. The living tree has fruited a lager container and thus may be redefined as a lagertree. This rhyming with the synonym for the smallest room reminds us all of our physical frailties, for the consumption of liquid has an invariable result. Indeed, these frailties are underlined in that the position noted above for ideal viewing of the installation, the down-under, is also ideal for the chunder. Perhaps, after all, the essential message of this artwork is that nature will always triumph. Nevertheless, it is possible to read too deeply into such works. An alternative interpretation could be that as killed and dissected tree, the fence is connotative of deadwood; perhaps therefore the entire work is a self-portrait and a reflective evocation of the artist.
Guest 644- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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The beer-can installation project clearly outlines the juxtapostion of modern culture and natural forms, a post-modern wake-up call for the viewer. It creates a pure morpho-space with which the observer can project rational and irrational fears of the impact of mechanised Fascist culture on the rolling green natural eco-landscape. The work is titled "The Unknown Political Prisoner (with Beer), Part VII".
Guest 703- Registered: 30 Jul 2010
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Wow, there's several folks on here being hiding their light under a Bushmills!
Here's the latest installation from the poomeister. I think the significance is in the strive to reach a higher level.
Jan Higgins
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Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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post 1,that is the work of one will iam scrote.
post 13,thats really dis gus ting,the person needs to be shot acidenterly of course.
Guest 703- Registered: 30 Jul 2010
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Worse still it's just one of a series, the poomeister is also working on two further installations nearby, one with black bags and one with orange bags!
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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the more i think about it i reckon the beer can got impaled on a branch when a p***head tripped up when elephants.
the offerings from ray look a lot more sinister.
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