travelwp Loc: New Jersey

At a museum in NY, one art critique wrote about Worhol:

"On another floor of the museum were video projects. I found those particularly awful — in one, the artist simply eats a hamburger. That’s it. He’s so pretentious he asks the audience to just watch him eat. And you know what the worst part is? The few people who stuck around this far into the exhibit did watch the whole videos, looking for some deep meaning in it because he is a “Great Artist.”

travelwp Loc: New Jersey

Art critic comments on Warhol's museum display:

"On another floor of the museum were video projects. I found those particularly awful — in one, the artist simply eats a hamburger. That’s it. He’s so pretentious he asks the audience to just watch him eat. And you know what the worst part is? The few people who stuck around this far into the exhibit did watch the whole videos, looking for some deep meaning in it because he is a “Great Artist.”"

larryjphoto Loc: Phoenix

Four more days of crap

Timmers Loc: San Antonio Texas.

I don't think you quite got what was going on there partner. Warhol was doing then what many people do now, photograph what they will be eating. In photographic terms, we slip back to Edward Weston's Pepper No. 30. Art critics decided that he was acting like a cannibal eating his subject after photographing the pepper.

To clarify this perhaps it is best to reference Groucho Marx when confronted by a guy who had a dozen plus children, he looked him in the eye, took the cigar from his mouth, studied the cigar while rolling it between his fingers and said finally, "You know I like my cigar too, but I take it out every once in a while!"

Hope that helped clarify the notion of duration for you.

PaulG Loc: Western Australia

Good to see you're still your own number one admirer

JohnFrim Loc: Somewhere in the Great White North.

Or, because they just could not believe that this kind of nonsense gets labelled as Great Art. Surely even a "Great Artist" generates some crap at some time.