March 9, 2012
I am well aware that when I write about art I often come off as a cranky old man. I am not old but yes, I fully admit to the cranky part. However, before you prepare to dismiss this Imponderable as the ravings of someone who does not appreciate art, read this story and ask yourself if this man deserves the equivalent of over $2,600.
While I grudgingly admit that yes, a couple of gold French fries is art, I call shenanigans (a more polite term than bullshit) on the description of it as “the metamorphosis of a profane, everyday object into a sacred artwork.” I’m sorry, it is a couple of French fries.
The disgusting part is not that the original fries that “inspired” the work was lost by the gallery, but that a court ruled that they were worth over $2,600 Euros, plus interest. These are two year-old potatoes. Were they encased in plastic? Preserved in amber? Pumped full of preservatives? I mean pumped full of more preservatives than French fries already are. And what was so special about those particular fries anyway? Most fries look alike. Some are crinkle cut, some are shoestring, some have skin left on, but get a large fries with your Happy Meal and they all look pretty much the same.
As I said, the golden fries are art. Unless the original spuds were part of some display and connected to the golden fries in some sort of artistic piece, and even if they were they can be easily replaced, they are not art.
Are a couple of fries that you can buy at McDonald’s for about a buck really worth $2,600?
The question is Imponderable.
And this is yet more proof that when you mix Germany and France bad things happen.
Mr. Blog's Tepid Ride 
SOAPBOX!
I’m really getting Tired of HACK Artists like this Making Money while I bust my friggin ass…any four year old can make a cross with fries..he should really go….F%^$*#^#&#^$*#&@#*@#**@…
Okay I’m off the soapbox…thank you have a nice day.
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They’re not Fries they’re Frites because Germans have to make everything Scary…
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There definitely seems to be a connection between how bad the art is and how over inflated the artist’s image of himself is.
Down here we had a Mexican artist who wanted to display a work of art that was supposed to make us think about mortality. You go into a room and a bubble machine at the ceiling is blowing bubbles. The thing that made that “art” was that the water used in the bubble machine had been used by a morgue to wash corpses. (Supposedly you wouldn’t catch anything from it).
The arty types were over the moon and finally the local Maori (NZ indigenous people) leadership stood up and said that it was disrepectful to the living and dead and insisted that the exhibit be dropped.
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When art is so absurdly abstract I firmly believe it is no longer art.
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