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Old 5th August 2007, 10:47 AM   #1 (permalink)
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£1m price tag on roadkill artwork

Here comes another one with bad taste and lots of money in mind, in the name of *art*:

BBC NEWS | UK | England | Gloucestershire | £1m price tag on roadkill artwork -

A controversial artist who makes sculptures from roadkill has put a £1m price tag on one of his latest pieces.
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"My art explores this primal relationship with the natural world and highlights a degree of alienation to which we all, myself included, are exposed".

What bulls**t.
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Old 5th August 2007, 10:49 AM   #2 (permalink)
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I agree completely, Allegra. What a plonker.
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Old 5th August 2007, 10:50 AM   #3 (permalink)
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Checks date...
Not April 1st already, surely?
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Old 5th August 2007, 10:53 AM   #4 (permalink)
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That's just disgusting. I'm shocked at what people can call as art these days.
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Old 5th August 2007, 10:59 AM   #5 (permalink)
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Re: £1m price tag on roadkill artwork

Me too, Taly
This is just waiting to be satirized
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Old 7th August 2007, 10:50 AM   #6 (permalink)
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Guy's a bloody sicko.
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Old 7th August 2007, 12:18 PM   #7 (permalink)
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Well I am just hoping no one encourages him and actually buys this "art".
What a load of rubbish.
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Old 7th August 2007, 12:36 PM   #8 (permalink)
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Re: £1m price tag on roadkill artwork

while i don't agree with his subject matter and modern art escapes me completely. If he gets £1m for it then fair do's.
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Old 8th August 2007, 03:00 AM   #9 (permalink)
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Re: £1m price tag on roadkill artwork

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"My art explores this primal relationship with the natural world and highlights a degree of alienation to which we all, myself included, are exposed".
Want to "explore" some "primal relationships" and your "sense of alienation" Mr. Morrigan? For the outrageously low price of $25.00 USD I'll hapily seal you inside a steel drum and then roll your carcass into the Ganges River. Or perhaps hitting you with a Peterbilt semi trailer, skinning and preserving your hide and then turning you into a matched pair of sandals might be more appropriate?

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Old 8th August 2007, 03:02 AM   #10 (permalink)
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curt read my introduction to
hang on i'll look it up

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Old 8th August 2007, 10:37 AM   #11 (permalink)
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Re: £1m price tag on roadkill artwork

That's TOTALLY artful, man. What I really want to see when I go to an art gallery is some cute little fluffy things mutilated by cars and further butchered by your hands.

Modern 'artists' really need to learn there is a line between art and societal statements, and it is exceedingly difficult to successfully be in both places at once. Art is meant to be pleasant and enjoyable to look at and consider, societal statements make you think. Conceptual art is usually good at using both, but often people just label their meaningless finger-painting as conceptual in an attempt to sound deep and to sell the stuff for more. This trend is in some ways much more disturbing than anything else happening to the human race; we are cannibalizing and devaluing one of our greatest inventions for the individual's ego and self-importance.
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Old 8th August 2007, 10:40 AM   #12 (permalink)
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same goes for you ,comma,look at my introduction for lirael
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Old 8th August 2007, 02:04 PM   #13 (permalink)
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Re: £1m price tag on roadkill artwork

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Want to "explore" some "primal relationships" and your "sense of alienation" Mr. Morrigan? For the outrageously low price of $25.00 USD I'll hapily seal you inside a steel drum and then roll your carcass into the Ganges River. Or perhaps hitting you with a Peterbilt semi trailer, skinning and preserving your hide and then turning you into a matched pair of sandals might be more appropriate?
LMAO Or, put him on a plane and send him to Iraq, the rest will be taken care of.

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Old 8th August 2007, 03:26 PM   #14 (permalink)
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LMAO Or, put him on a plane and send him to Iraq, the rest will be taken care of.
When confronted with such towering arrogance, greed, conspicuous lack of discernable talent and apalling bad taste one needs to lower one's head, doff one's hat . . . . and cry, "GET HIM!"
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