Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for April 25, 2021

Art, it’s all in the marketing

Someone watched WONDER WOMAN 1984.

Art is in the eye of the beholder. What’s one person’s art is another’s …

Even so, I’m happy to concede that the detail is pretty obsequious.

I like Wiley’s art

And “Made in China” was printed on the bottom.

How nice. I’d love to janitorize NYT’s Art Section.

I really don’t know Art. Or even art. But I’ve discovered that I also don’t always like the same things I used to… or for the same reasons.

One of the things I like is to chuckle at pompous pontificators, particularly when they get it laughably wrong.

I do agree with his comment about Jackson Pollack. Pollack knew what he was doing, but other wannabes saw his painting and thought that all they need to do is drip paint on the canvas.

I’ll bet that the janitor knows more about art than that pretentious would-be critic!

He’s still full of garbage.

The idea is – if you don’t understand what the supposed connoisseur is telling you, it’s your fault, not his!! I just love the ‘obsequious detail’ and the ‘idee fixe’ … does it for me. A rubbish bin by any other name? Perfect.

It’s not about what you paint – it’s about what you say about it.

No anti-intellectual bent in the 21st century! /s

Some budding Duchamp should scrawl his name on it and make it art.

Art is a dish best served cold!

And may moments when we love our jobs be many.

(Thinking of a sorter of donated clothing who found $1,400 rolled up in a shoe.)

LOL! Love this!

Reminds me of this:

https://xkcd.com/451/

In an empty space in a museum, some guy put his glasses on the floor, and filmed the people reacting to it like it was a serious art work.

Critic is bored with Abstract Expressionism, and frankly so am I, and is either tuning in to Dada or Pop Art, both of which I enjoy. Dada asked us question what is art? (See Marcel Duchamp who hung a snow shovel in a gallery showing, or hung a urinal. ‘Found art’.) The more recent Pop Art (popular art) suggested there is art all around us, we can find it in comic strips or product packaging. (See Roy Lichtenstein or Andy Warhol’s Brillo boxes.)

Have you noticed that small coffee roasters have started coining product descriptions similar to the ridiculous terms used by vintners? A new winery here chose a name that sums up the industry – Welcome POMPOUS ASS WINERY !!!

Obsequious detail? First time I ever heard the terms combined in a description of an art form or anything else, for that matter. What does it even mean?

But I like the premise of the arc. Pomposity is always a good target for cynics and overbearing critics of any caliber fill the list. Politicians are a close second.

Some modern art is accessible only to the part of the brain that appreciates color blends and vague forms. WOW!!

And some items land squarely on our sense of the ridiculous. They paid how much for that??!!!

Yeah, I know. The sense of acceptability is unique to each of us, and many would not agree with my choices, but that’s what makes art and lifestyles, and thank goodness for it. Being an individual is exceptional in itself.

Tee hee, It’s a trash can you Schnook.

It’s like sticking a pin in the expert and watching him fly around the room.

He’s JUST LIKE the “Wine Snobs” who babble on about nonsense like “Subtle Undertones” and “A Strong Finish”. Pour the contents of a bottle of 3-Buck Chuck into an expensive bottle, and I bet 98% of them couldn’t tell the difference!

IT’S FERMENTED GRAPE JUICE!!

I know art. if I don’t like it, it isn’t art.

Reminds me of the University Art professor Robert Florczak who had his graduate students critic a work of art. They thought it was a Pollock. Turned out to be his spill covered painting apron. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNI07egoefc

Was that a janitor emptying a trash can, or did we just witness performance art? And how would we know?

I think Warhol’s painting of a soup can was a solid piece of artistic irony. However, I know very little about art. I just know I would rather have the “Dogs playing Poker” on my wall than a Soup Can.

I don’t know Art, not personally.

So-o-o-o predictable.

Love watching Bob Ross paint, now that is an art!

One of those gentlemen is wrong. Problem is, which one?

Thanks for your good work, Art.

And if I had a million dollars (If I had a million dollars)

Well I’d buy you some art

A Picasso or a Garfunkel

- Barenaked Ladies

I wonder how much trash they do have to pull out of some of the displays.

Art is one thing. A pretty neat thing. The art MARKET, however is ridiculous.

Extremely old joke. And art museums don’t put trash cans in the galleries. Nobody puts trash cans on pedestals. And where did all the trash come from? Especially since no one knew it was a trash can.

Having graduated R.I.S.D. in 1959 with a degree in Advertising Design I was in a New York museum. Down a hall I saw what seemed to be an illustration of many human bodies. Got up close I discovereda variety of brown string tied in bows glued to background. Then during Army Howitzer training I noticed trucks with blue & white stars on the doors. Had a few tubes of Designer colors blue, went to the motor pool & changed a white star to blue. Motor pool Sargent had a fit & got someone drive it the correct motor pool. Rained that night….and… “Art” is in the eye of the beholder!

Any modern archaeologists who be delighted to rummage through an ancient garbage dump

So the janitor is Woody Allen?

I’ve used ‘so called’ art to throw my trash away, somebody has got to empty it.

The “urn” is actually a molded plastic trash can from Walmart. Made in Taiwan.

Reminds me of that ‘art’ show of trash thrown around a room. The janitor cleaned it. It was a huge scandal, not that it looked like trash strewn around but that a janitor destroyed a thousands dollars worth of art. ‘Artists’ telling the world that people who don’t like or understand their creation are just ignoramus, because it is all in the meaning the artist wants to express, are part of that belly button gazing species called narcissists.

Love it!

I hate it when bald guys have pony tails. What’s the point?

One man’s trash is another man’s treasure.

Myself, I’m just as happy to frame an attractive calendar page or greeting card, and call it good. Been doing it for decades now.

To me art is a recognizable depiction of something from the real world. I particularly like storm tossed ships at sea with varying shades and tones capturing the illusion of the light breaking through the clouds. If the artist can capture movement, light and reality without it being a photograph I am always awed. I don’t care for geometric shapes or pictures of soup cans and Picasso clearly had some vision problems or hideous nightmares he was trying to exorcise onto the canvas. At least that’s my opinion which, when it comes to art is really the only opinion that matters to me.

The “trash container” might be a one-of-a-kind piece used as a functional item . . . as intended by the artist.

I just love to see a pompous arse taken down a notch. But I will agree with him on the “Pollock wannabe”. Pollock is the most easily copied artist. Which tells you a lot about Modern “art”.

It seems that it IS a piece of art in the collection (on a pedestal, doesn’t look like any trash can in the world) but people put trash in it. When the custodian dumps it, he enjoys the reaction.

Art is that which reveals something about the world that we haven’t noticed before.

When a co-worker looked at a Pollack and said “I could do that” I replied “But, you didn’t”

I used to be an engineer. A Polish surrealist Zdzisław Beksiński’s canal fantasy has always impressed me. He said he wanted to paint photographs of peoples dreams. I can’t find a link to an image of the painting, but from a copy I have on my computer: A backlit-luminous sailboat is making its way down a valley, along a sinuous elevated canal that goes from sky blue to yellow. Down below is lush forest, and in the distance there is a hazy yellow sky. On either side of the valley are mountains soaring out of our sight. Near it, on either side, are stone spires, supporting boom cranes. Bridges pass from the spires to tunnels into the sides of the mountains…

Obsequious detail? That’s a good one.

Pompassery take down. Woohoo

I used to know Art. He was a window washer on State Street.

One of the best, Thanks.

The sad thing is, if you do have an open container or any kind, anywhere, people will put trash in it.

Best one in a long time…

How dare he use a piece of art as a clandestine trash can.

This was a lesson in my Spanish course, but the waste basket was the security guard’s sandwich. Si, es verdad.

What ? Nobody is going to defend the banana duct-taped to the wall ?

It’s on a pedestal!

No Accounting for taste

J. Fred Muggs painted that.

I didn’t slog through 222 comments to see whether anybody pointed out that he left out “the dichotomy of the human condition”…

Embrace functional art. All things, even the most mundane trash receptacle, can be beautiful works of art.

The poetical art critic isn’t wrong!

Art is what the viewer perceives as. Simply what makes it good art is when it can inflict strong emotions on the viewer.

It all boils down to if you like it, it is art if you don’t like it is something else.

Huge fan of Wiley here. But it’s too bad he is recycling jokes from the 1990s. This joke was almost word for word in his collection “Beastly Things” from 1999

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