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Yeah that's a good point. I can see why people would call it art, but I still don't agree with it.
other than the dogs being killed for food, I agree 100%.
I do not care where you live, torturing another living being is sick and anyone that does this act should be just snuffed out and taken off the planet.
Manny, you can not compare this to our females here in the U S walking around with their T and A hanging out being just as appalling to Isalic people....not even close
Yeah that's a good point. I can see why people would call it art, but I still don't agree with it.
No more so than Sally Struthers.
If you look at it that way, maybe so.
But then that means all those stupid ass thetruth.com commercials are "art" as well.
Was Borat art?
By pure shock value, it certainly worked. But that doesn't mean it wasn't a terribly flawed depiction.
You'd probably be surprised to learn how many of the most famous works of art from the Renaissance had their start as works of marketing, advertisement, and propaganda.
Absolutely.
She's not an artist because she has chained and African kids in an art gallery.
It's tough for me to think of frat boys talking about sticking a mouse up their hole as art, but I suppose so.
Yet she has still been part of an advertising campaign that exploited their horrible living conditions in order to make rich Americans feel guilty. It's really not that different.
Then everything is art. The I just took in the toilet a minute ago, I'm framing that , that is fine grade A quality art.
I don't see torturing animals as art, and I don't see ugly naked men wrestling around a hotel room as art, either.
I guess I'm just too backards' that way.
This article doesn't include everything the guy did...nor do the pictures.
He actually had the dog surrounded by food in the shapes of letters spelling out various words, as he starved it to death.
If I saw TPark taking a in the woods I might think that is gross someone else may think it was art! but at the end it is still just TPark taking a in the woods.
It's because people like you and me aren't intelligent enough to understand. We can't all have superior Manny minds.I don't see torturing animals as art, and I don't see ugly naked men wrestling around a hotel room as art, either.
I guess I'm just too backards' that way.
FRom that same blog Manny posted:
Here's how a blog on matters Costa Rican described the controversy:
A Costa Rican artist found himself in hot water with the animal protection people in his home country after using a starving, sick street dog as part of an exposition in Managua, Nicaragua, in August. Guillermo “Habacuc” Vargas allegedly found the dog tied up on a street corner in a poor Nicaragua barrio and brought it to the showing.
He tied the dog, according to furious animal lovers, in a corner of the salon where it died after a day. Habacuc’s exhibition included a legend spelled out in dog food reading “You are what you read,” photos and an incense burner that burned an ounce of marijauna and 175 “rock’ of crack cocaine. In the background, according to reports, the Sandista national anthem played backwards.
According to the artist, his “art” was a tribute to Natividad Canda, a Nicaraguan burglar killed in Costa Rica by two rottweilers guarding property he had entered at night. The incident caused friction between the two countries. Habacuc told the daily La Nacion, “I won’t say the dog died. The importance to me is the hypocracy of the people where an animal is the focus of attention where people come to see art but not when it’s in the street starving to death.”
“The same thing happened with poor Natividad Canda. The people sympathized with him only after he was dead,” the artist added.
I'm saying this guy is just trying to cover his ass...
You pick up a starving dog off the street and feed it, there is a about an 80% chance you have yourself a new dog. They might wander off, but they aren't going to go bolting off.
Whether this asshat did it or not...they are now famous, and that was really what it was all about.
So it was done because of a stray dog problem?
Figured as much.
She doesn't chain little starving children to a wall in an art gallery and pretend to make them starve, all the while feeding them scraps so as not to die.
It really is that different.
CF will be disappointed in you.I don't see torturing animals as art, and I don't see ugly naked men wrestling around a hotel room as art, either.
I guess I'm just too backards' that way.
We all can't have that superior gorilla intellect.
If you have to tie up a dog to call it art then you really have no talent as a true artists.
That makes the assumption that a) he tied up the dog because he had to rather than because he chose to, and b) there is one universal definition of what a "true artist" is.
Stop trying to define art. It's futile.
If this can sell for $25,000 a tin, anything is art:
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