Indifference is a powerful tool in the midst of all this, friend. I heard about the banana a long while back in passing through a meme or something like that while just buming around the interwebs. A habit that I really need to break, especially after reading this. And I could NOTT possibly care less. I very briefly saw it and thought "Okay, this it stupid. Moving on." I can't even tell you how I found it exactly I was so indifferent. Then I heard about it getting sold for 6 mil and all I had to opine on the matter was what I said on twitter. That the Dadaist "non-movement" of the 1910s and 1920s was both a blessing, one that broke down barriers and established that art didn't need to have any rules other then those set by the artist(s) in question (which, in the case of Dadaism, was make hipster "anti-art" for the sake of making hipster "anti-art"), and a curse in that it has set a president that any stupid thing can be art (a sentiment I do agree with), even if it expresses nothing and serves no purpose but to draw whatever kind of attention it can get. And that's pretty much it. It's fucking retarded and I don't care. Just another example of how anything can be art, but that doesn't automatically make it good art. And it being sold for millions just goes to show, in my eyes at least, how truly little it's worth despite all the attention it got in the process. So yeah, the banana's stupid and beyond what I've read and said here, would rather not waste my time on it and instead focus on better works of art and entertainment. Like this new anime Dandadan. A goofy and absurd, yet earnest and heartfelt, supernatural action romcom that, appropriately enough given the subject here, apparently got it's name from the Dada movement. XD
It did also give us a banging Alice Cooper album, so it ain't all for nothing lol. But yeah, I saw your thoughts and pretty much agree. Besides, better things came out of the modernists at the time (Italian futurism ftw), so it's also only part of the era, not the whole fortunately.
Ah yes, the banana!
Maybe I don't "know" art, but I still find it hilarious because it's literally a banana duct taped to a wall! Ha!
Indifference is a powerful tool in the midst of all this, friend. I heard about the banana a long while back in passing through a meme or something like that while just buming around the interwebs. A habit that I really need to break, especially after reading this. And I could NOTT possibly care less. I very briefly saw it and thought "Okay, this it stupid. Moving on." I can't even tell you how I found it exactly I was so indifferent. Then I heard about it getting sold for 6 mil and all I had to opine on the matter was what I said on twitter. That the Dadaist "non-movement" of the 1910s and 1920s was both a blessing, one that broke down barriers and established that art didn't need to have any rules other then those set by the artist(s) in question (which, in the case of Dadaism, was make hipster "anti-art" for the sake of making hipster "anti-art"), and a curse in that it has set a president that any stupid thing can be art (a sentiment I do agree with), even if it expresses nothing and serves no purpose but to draw whatever kind of attention it can get. And that's pretty much it. It's fucking retarded and I don't care. Just another example of how anything can be art, but that doesn't automatically make it good art. And it being sold for millions just goes to show, in my eyes at least, how truly little it's worth despite all the attention it got in the process. So yeah, the banana's stupid and beyond what I've read and said here, would rather not waste my time on it and instead focus on better works of art and entertainment. Like this new anime Dandadan. A goofy and absurd, yet earnest and heartfelt, supernatural action romcom that, appropriately enough given the subject here, apparently got it's name from the Dada movement. XD
It did also give us a banging Alice Cooper album, so it ain't all for nothing lol. But yeah, I saw your thoughts and pretty much agree. Besides, better things came out of the modernists at the time (Italian futurism ftw), so it's also only part of the era, not the whole fortunately.