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I'm torn. Should I be happy or bitter?


On the one hand I'm bitter that some dude was able to contract-out, at minimum wages, mass produced pseudo-art and make over a million dollars selling it to collectors at an 'art show'. Even if it was genius really....


On the other hand I was perversely pleased to see all those suckers get ripped-off while gushing about, and doling out piles of money for, garbage with no creative thought behind it at all. Even though art is in the eye of the beholder and worth whatever someone is willing to pay for it....


Of all those people interviewed at the show only the one gay dude with the spectacles seemed discerning enough to comment on the insipid ultra-derivative nature of everything around him, but even he was just too polite to come out and admit it was all just terrible awfulness.



On a totally unrelated note, was Banksy complimenting Warhol at the end there?

about Warhol "he took a popular image and repeated it until it became meaningless, but he did it in an iconic way."

...because let's be honest, Warhol's work is god awful garbage as well.



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Banksy's definitely saying something about Warhol, and a whole lot of other things about art too. You really should go back and watch this film again and pay close attention to the counterfeit money scene.

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can you expound a bit on the importance of the counterfeit money scene?

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well the only thing making me bitter about this gem of a doc is the statement about banksy & doc making in the rolling credits, but neva say neva :]

''As Imbecile examines finger, Wise man sees who's watching Imbecile, & Moon gets intimacy.'' H.E

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Why not both, zero?





Schrodinger's cat walks into a bar and doesn't.

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Ultimately its up to interpretation from were I stand. Personally I felt more bitter

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>On the other hand I was perversely pleased to see all those suckers get ripped-off while gushing about, and doling out piles of money for, garbage with no creative thought behind it at all. Even though art is in the eye of the beholder and worth whatever someone is willing to pay for it....

History repeats. Sounds like you're describing NFTs and now AI art.

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