Convinced that the world HAS gone mad!

[Leicesterbaggie]

A so called artist stuck a banana to a wall with tape and described it as art. A Chinese entrepreneur bought it for 5 million pounds and stated that he would eat the banana as an artistic experience. It proves to me that the world has gone mad and wouldn?t this stupid Chinaman been better donating that money to charity or some other deserving cause.

[boingy]

Obviously an ap pealing experience for the man

[Dubbag]

Obviously an ap pealing experience for the man

Very good boingy......

[Albionic68]

A so called artist stuck a banana to a wall with tape and described it as art. A Chinese entrepreneur bought it for 5 million pounds and stated that he would eat the banana as an artistic experience. It proves to me that the world has gone mad and wouldn?t this stupid Chinaman been better donating that money to charity or some other deserving cause.

Can't help thinking 'The World Has Gone Bananas' would have been a more appropriate thread title, you missed a tap in there LB 😉.

[Dubbag]

Can't help thinking 'The World Has Gone Bananas' would have been a more appropriate thread title, you missed a tap in there LB 😉.

Two feet out and skied it over the bar.......

[kettering_baggie]

I wonder about the ‘artist’; is he, or she (or it/they) laughing his socks off at conning the morons in the art world or he so deluded that he actually considers the taped banana as ‘art’? So many pseuds of the art community are so up themselves, it borders on the tragic!

[wbaliquidator]

Lots of replicas listed on e-bay if anyone in interested

[Omegstrat6]

There has always been this question about the definition of "art" revolving around the balance of idea/concept and execution/level of craftsmanship. Whether some "artists" are taking the pi ss or not is a discussion that long predates taping bananas to walls, exhibiting sheep cut in half , displaying un-made beds or producing multi copy lithographs of Campbell's soup, Elvis or Marylin. Anyone else remember that Tony Hancock film "The Rebel" about a cr ap painter who finds fame as the creator of the "Infantile School of Painting"?😁

[Calgarybaggy]

A banana as art. Its a slippery slope alright.

[On Balance]

Glad your not askin me to make a funny about this as I think I might slip up.

I think I have an artistic vain so I have tied some plums to my sycamore tree. They shriveled up so I need to prune it soon. It’s not art and it is not funny, so I’ll return to my day job.