Six rules of the Faux Artist:
1) The modern art must be sold for a profit i.e. more than it cost to make;
2) The modern art can not be knowingly sold to friends or family of the Faux Artist;
3) No-one else can help the Faux Artist in the creation of the modern art;
4) There is no restriction on the type or number of mediums utilized in the art work, however must satisfy point 1;
5) Any reasonable channels can be used to try and sell the art work;
6) At no point must the Faux Artist lie to enhance his artistic profile
What’s all this about I hear you ask? Well I will tell thee (well he will)
One day in early January 2010, whilst on his lunch break, a guy was having an argument with a friend about modern art. His friend, having studied art at university, was vigorously defending it with the usual arguments of the art being representative and an emotional interpretation of the artists’ innermost feelings and experiences.
The guy disagreed.
He saw the vast majority of modern art as ‘crap on a canvas’ (or words to that effect). He held the stance that today’s modern art could have been produced by absolutely anybody with no tangible artistic talent. The only reason this art work sold, he felt, was because the artist had become a ‘known entity’ on the art scene and was able to project some contrived meaning to the mess they had created and labeled it as ‘art’.
The conversation turned into a heated debate and so the guy decided to set himself a challenge. He would see if, with absolutely no artistic talent at all, he could create a piece of modern art and sell it for a profit; his hypothesis being that “most of today’s modern artists are talentless and absolutely anyone can create modern art and sell it”.
Time will tell if this is a blag or not but hats off for a good story and getting out there. I think a lot of modern art is crap so i hope he pulls it off.
Connect with him http://www.fauxartist.co.uk/ / @thefauxartist
posted: 15/03/10filled under: Events, Featureswords by: Jamie Scahill0 Comments