it's a good example of the public being duped by tricked illusion.
The force of the club hitting the ball would be enough to bust the
ball right in his face. Aren't we Gullible ? Shame on us.
mando
On Jun 2, 2008, at 8:35 PM, Michael Brady wrote:
I just saw a Buick TV commercial, in which Tiger Woods hit golf
balls filled with paint at a large blank canvas, filling them with
multi-colored drips, in the manner of Pollock or other abstraction
drips.
I think this is a good example of the convergence of commerce and
aesthetics, driven by the authority of institutionalized
definitions of art and advanced aesthetic principles and embodying
a popular understanding of art that was once thought of as elitist
and unfathomable, but now quite widely understood and admired, if
not for the arcane meanings of the works then at least for the high
prices such works bring in fashionable galleries, art-world
markets, and well-respected auction houses.
http://www.thecarconnection.com/blog/?p=960
BTW, it reminds me of an old "Dragnet" episode I saw way back in
the late '50s or early '60s, in which the artist-suspect filled
balloons with paint, attached them to the top of a large canvas,
and shot them with a .22 rifle, bursting them and letting the paint
flow and spatter on the canvas.
Ah, TV, the demotic handmaiden of that most popular and
noncanonical, yet maddeningly unordered film art!
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