GENIUS
What is
genius? Sure, Einstein was a
genius. He solved difficult issues of
physics that few people understood the issue, never mind the solution. So, genius is being several steps ahead of
the most intellectual persons in a given venue or endeavor?
Google
defines genius as: exceptional intellectual or creative power or other natural
ability.
That
means almost nothing to me, but then I am clearly not a genius.
I must
say though I have seen an example of genius in the art world only recently.
An
artist took a banana and taped it to a museum wall and declared it a piece of
art. Now, people laughed at this
assertion and poked fun at how ridiculous it was to declare a banana taped to a
wall to be art, and yet there it was…a banana in a museum taped to the wall
with lines of people to view it.
GENIUS!
In a
way, part of the genius is to take a creation of God, and declare it a work of
art, which of course it actually is. Come
on now, a banana is delicious, it has its own protective cover that is easily
opened and can even be re-covered to finish the delicacy within at a later date.
Genius! The banana like all creations of God is GENIUS, and this “artist”
recognized that and took credit for God’s art work by simply taping it to a
wall.
Now the
banana could not last forever on the wall, so the artist issued a certificate
of “original art” and deemed it acceptable to replace the banana with a new one
as needed. The certificate assured the
continued value of the “banana art”. Genius!
Apparently, he got someone to pay $120,000 for the banana, the duct tape and the certificate. If that is not GENIUS, I don’t know what is.
Then,
I read what is truly genius, an act of genius that surpasses even the genius of
taping a banana to a wall and declaring it to be art.
Someone
who calls himself a “Performance Artist” came into the museum, took the $120,000
banana off the wall and ate it!
Performance
art; to simply eat a banana that was simply taped to a wall and sold for
$120,000.
That is
GENIUS that even Einstein could have never imagined.
E+MC2? Yeah right; like anyone really has a concept
of what that means.
But
eating a $120,000 banana taped to a museum wall? Even I can recognize the genius
in that act.
Who
could think of taping the banana to a wall as art? Who could think of eating the banana as performance
art?
Only a GENIUS!
this one made me laugh dear Joe (hope i did not hurt the feeling of genius)
ReplyDeletei am not even smart enough to understand that what theory could be this display ,i mean banana is work of art by God obviously but tapping it on wall is beyond my tiny head really
if one who tapped it mentioned his approach for his act ,this can help fools like me
hope one who ate it does not have to pay 1200.000 dollars
Why did the person who bought the banana not have it delivered home?
ReplyDeleteGod bless.
I am looking at a bowl of bananas right now and wondering if.......
ReplyDeleteI will never ever understand "art". Not with my feeble brain. However God's art with sunsets, thunder clouds, spring flowers - that my brain understands.
ReplyDeleteGenius and Insanity are closely related.
ReplyDeleteI know, my head is still shaking over the whole episode from art to belly.
ReplyDeleteit reminded me of the play which I believe was based on a true story but who knows...the guy bought a very expensive piece of art. It was a white canvas. He hung it proudly and his friends would say, it's just a white canvas why would you pay hundreds of thousands for it? Genius who pulls it off and stupid who buys it.
ReplyDeleteSome fool bought a plain white canvas? Paid real money?
DeleteThe Washington Post had something to say about this this morning - https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/museums/the-art-basel-banana-was-art-and-the-peals-of-outrage-were-one-layer-of-it/2019/12/09/bb785b10-1a91-11ea-87f7-f2e91143c60d_story.html
ReplyDeleteI liked what Bijoux said. I think this sums the whole banana taped to the wall incident. A bit of genius and a bit of insanity.
ReplyDeletebetty
It is certainly money making genius, if nothing else.
ReplyDeleteWhoever paid that $120,000 is the biggest fool I must say, or he must be so overloaded with "extra cash" that he has no idea what to do with it.
ReplyDeleteI used to wonder about these "geniuses" and their high-dollar art. Then I read a theory that it's all about money-laundering, that the art itself is not the product that they're actually buying. Must be true...I read it on the innernets!
ReplyDeleteYou could be on to something here.
DeleteI’ve been following this story for several days now. Your take on it is better than any of the others I’ve seen.
ReplyDeleteI don't understand most "art" but I am wondering if the person who paid $120,000 for that, got his money back when it couldn't be delivered because it got eaten.
ReplyDeleteGenius? I'm not so sure. . . Looks to me like he's just a particularly adept disciple of PT Barnum, who's figured out how to use the pretentious arrogance of the 'art culture' to line his own pockets. . .
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