Some top art ****er self-parody here

[Berni]

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jun/23/partick -thistle-mascot-david-shrigley-kingley#comment-54296246 (http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jun/23/partick-thistle-mascot-david-shrigley-kingley#comment-54296246)

[Curly]

The "artist" or the pretentious bull**** from the lad Jones there

[Berni]

legs or comedy shoes or anything.

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

http://www.dontpaniconline.com/media/magazine/660x420/mag-1277725825.jpg

[Brentwood]

[Curly]

200 millions for a painting of a 3 legged yellow chair that's out of focus fair play to them but not for me

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

What a lot of ****.

[Berni]

the Tower of London are great? WELL YOU'RE WRONG, YOU STUPID, IGNORANT PLEBS!'

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

They've gone, man. Let it go.

The term 'art-student ****' never seemed more apt.

[Classic Jorge]

That wasnt art, that's someone who recently learned the meaning of the word metaphor

[Berni]

Your comment is remarkably obtuse, if I may say so. The object of the poppies was almost exactly the opposite of metaphor. It was to offer a moving and visual idea of the reality of a number - an artistic counterblast, if you will, to Stalin's vilely cynical 'A million dead is a statistic'.

[Classic Jorge]

There are also a bundle of other possible interpretations, all of which seem to have been entirely discounted in favour of the obvious and pretty trite one.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

These chaps are sooo obvious.

[Ashberto]

[Classic Jorge]

[Berni]

into an idiomatic shorthand. Everyone knows without even thinking what the poppy means, so nobody's having to make the imaginative leap that is inherent to metaphor anymore.

And it is perhaps trite to demonstrate that hundreds of thousands of dead people is a f**k of a lot of dead people, but that doesn't lessen the impact of its demonstration, does it? You might as well say that the symbolism of throwing dirt onto the coffin of a loved one is 'trite'. It is, but it nonetheless remains real, profound and affecting.

[Classic Jorge]

I thought he was making a clever Shining-esque point to do with blood spewing forth from the home of the crown jewels for a moment, then I realised he wasnt and it's essentially just another piece of pulp public art.

Dont get me started on the whole burial business either

[Berni]

Besides, I was under the impression that only a couple of people knew what my username was on there.

[Berni]

accessible to all while remaining visually stimulating and thought-provoking.

Sounds like exactly what good public art should be to me. :shrug:

[Classic Jorge]

[Berni]

[Classic Jorge]

I've spent far too much time around public art and I can honestly say I struggle to think of a good piece.

And that includes the Gormley