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© 2002, Tina Roeder “white plastic chair”


© 2006, Sam Durant “mono-block porcelain chair”


© 2008, Maarten Baas “plastic chair in wood”

Making art – sometimes – is very simple:

You can change the material of an object
or
You can change the scale (larger or smaller)
or
place the same object in a different context (“decontextualize” is how the art-cultured people called it).

It it quite funny if you think that for example children are doing this while learning from the “mistakes”.

And similar “mistakes” are called
art
by the same people who talk about decontextualization.

I’m not surprised if this makes contemporary art less attractive and enjoyable for the general public not in confidence with the art world.


© 2009, R&E Praspaliauskas, Bread shoes


© 2007, Stefan Zwicky, “grand confort, sans confort”, at Design Miami 07


© 2002, Fabio Viale, Ahgalla I white marble, 80x250x110 cm

How does Art work?

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Art, sometimes, is a pure expression of the imagination:
as to substitute materials

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© 2007, Chris Gilmour, Italy