The Turner Prize

[Jon MW]

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The turner prize harms no one,why ridicule it ?
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Because it"s fun.

LDO

[MintTrav]

Most of it most of the time is short term fashionable tripe.

My favourite painters are pre-raphaelite so it takes a lot for me to like any modern garbage, very occasionally something stands out - but not this year, it"s all shiite.

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The turner prize harms no one,why ridicule it ?
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Because it"s fun.

LDO

Jon - In their succinctness, your posts on this topic are themselves works of art, illustrating mankind"s ability to capture the kernal of the argument while avoiding all extraneous discussion or longwinded justification. Can"t wait for the third in the series. I"m thinking of nominating you for the next Turner Prize!

[Jon MW]

I could be a world famous artist if I wanted to, but I don"t want the paparazzi problems that brings.

[MintTrav]

See - what did I tell you?
The man"s a genius!

[MintTrav]

Come on Ger - this year"s Turner Prize Exhibition has been running for two days and we haven"t heard anything from you. Is that because you like it this time?

(takes cover)

[Cyntaf]

Hey noble, are you comparing our very own Ger to A. Dolf??..........LMAO.

Agreed imagination is so very important in many ways. Now then if i were to express myself through my imagination,

A : Who would be interested?
B : Possibly the white coat police
C : Could it really be called art, if i were to embellish it with arty farty reasons and descriptions of how it depicts a semi modern post historic trip into the fatherlands contradictory self flagulating egotistical, neural pathways reception heightened by the parapsychological forces to broaden ones interest in, not only the cost of living in western europe but also the standard height of a garden gate, in a rural community in Central Asia.
D : What am i on about?
E : Will it make me rich?
F : What was the thread about , tell me again please.

[Cyntaf]

Dan, that is definately art. It"s got my imagination running wild, who is she? Do i know her, well she looks familiar(Slightly).
Why is she wearing hold-ups and not the full regalia? Did she know that you were photagraphing her? Shhhh!
Will she be at Bolton, hey she could wait on for our table

[duke3016]

Leo Benedictus of the Guardian this week put it better than I ever could

"Big fat waste of taxpayer"s money on a bunch of dole-scrounging art-school layabouts who just take any piece of crap and stick it on the floor and then a bunch of ponces wander round and go: "Oh, it"s really deep and clever and stuff" and stroke their beards and drink their lattes and stop us bringing back the lash and the birch"