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View Poll Results: Is it art - Voters
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Art? What's art?
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Din Älskling
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"Since when does being a patriot in America mean shutting your mouth?"
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zz,zz,zz,zz,zz,zz!
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Hey I saw that! It was at the body worlds exibit at the science museum! I want to be remembered when I'm dead. I want books written about me. I want songs sung about me. And then, hundreds of years from now, I want episodes of my life to be played out weekly at half past nine by some great heroic actor of the age.
~Blackadder
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I don't like it: therefore it is not art! 
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It looks good to me. I can tell that there's symbolism involved, and that it's not just random, but I could not for the life of me tell you WHAT symbolism is involved.
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Nothing is more frightening than ignorance in action.
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It's fascinating in a disgusting kind of way, I think. It's definitely not something I would decorate my home with... 
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 Originally Posted by Zilverzmurfen It's fascinating in a disgusting kind of way, I think. It's definitely not something I would decorate my home with... It's not something I would decorate the bottom of a birdcage with. Nothing is more frightening than ignorance in action.
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Originally Posted by esskreemr Art or shock garbage? The two are not necessarily mutually exclusive.
--Philistine
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I saw it quite some time ago, guess good 3 years ago.
January 1. Possibly, after a new years night not the best day to go and see it.
Whether you can call it art is something I'd leave up to each individual. Everybody has a different perception of what is art and what isn't.
I find it an extremely interesting exhibition. You see the humans body as you never get the chance to see it. You see formations due to illnesses that have long been established in our society and are considered "normal" - formations you never ever see or that are never as close and real as you can observed them hear (a smokers lung, a liver hurt by the alcohol etc.) It shows a variety of totally interesting parts of the human body. It is - I dare say - educational in its very own way.
I don't call this shocking. All you see is what you cross on a daily basis. What's exposed there is the dead part of the bodies you're surrounded by every single day. What's shocking about it?
The dispute about this exhibition is how he got to the bodies and whether they knew that they'd end up in an exhibition. Some bodies may have been acquiered in a not proper ethical way. This is rather slightly shocking to me.
I think it was an excellent exhibition. For my personal perception, I wouldn't call it art.
Cheers.
Pauli Beat it...Jab it...Stab it...FENCE IT!!!
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Take me 2 YVR!
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And of course, the poll is....
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FLAWED!  *In heaven all the interesting people are missing.*
~Friedrich Nietzsche*
*Logic! Why don't they teach logic at these schools?*
~The professor
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Wow! Alley Oop and Inwe with the Slam! And the jello's jiggling as this game grinds to a halt....
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Shock garbage, but only because the guy is holding a foil 
Real art involves Epees.
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Where's the option for; It's odd.  "Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory." - George S. Patton
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Anything that expresses fealing or emotion is art. That doesn't look like it expresses anything to me, so it looks like more of a science display. A vulture boards an airplane, carrying two dead raccoons. The stewardess looks at him and says, "I'm sorry, sir, only one carrion allowed per passenger."
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Originally Posted by Westley Wow! Alley Oop and Inwe with the Slam! And the jello's jiggling as this game grinds to a halt.... And nobody gets the chic reference! And I've never quoted myself before. Wow. Self-centered or what?
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If you're going to abstain from a poll, why bother voting?
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Originally Posted by Westley If you're going to abstain from a poll, why bother voting? Methinks you have no sense of irony, young lad..! 
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He should be awarded a yellow card for Corps-a-corpse
(sorry about that)
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Originally Posted by Zilverzmurfen It's fascinating in a disgusting kind of way, I think. It's definitely not something I would decorate my home with... It looks like something out of a human anatomy book (the specific one I have in mind right now I forget the title of) or an artist's book on how to draw accurate human figures in different stances. Not something I would decorate my home with either, but do agree that it is fascinating. As someone who has drawn fencers in the past (mind you, in full gear!), I'd dare say that it is scientifically artful in a twisted way! as for the symbolism part of it, you can interpret it from a personal or a world point of view; for example, it can be the development or evolution rather of the stance or the fencer, the growth if you like from a mass to a structure that has shape/meaning/purpose/goal/whatever. And with that thought I shall stop...
Eleni
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