Should art be thrown in the trash bin to become art?
A Dutch museum has recovered one of its artworks that looks like two empty beer cans after a staff member accidentally threw it in the bin. One man’s art is another man’s trash...
Is the cleaner to blame for not recognizing your art and thinking it was garbage? Are you to blame for not making it clear enough, leading the cleaner to throw it out? Is art to blame for becoming trash?
At the very least, people would start writing a lot about it as art that ended up in the trash, and millions of people would learn about you, see your other works, and become interested.
I’m lucky that my mother is embarrassed by my art and takes down my paintings when her granddaughters come to visit – it’s kind of like throwing them in the trash, but no one will write about it except me in this newsletter. Maybe you could share this story in your social media or in conversations with friends? Thank you.
This strange trend will soon turn into the most profitable profession in the art world – hiring someone to throw your painting in the trash. We’ll hire “art vandals” who will toss selected works into the trash and create buzz around you, so that your art gets noticed.
You might not even need to pay for it – it’s enough to upset some eco-activists who will pour soup on your work, and at least you’ll have something to eat. It’s worse if they throw paint on the canvas, but the work will almost certainly gain value, if not among collectors, then at least among eco-movement opponents.
Climate activists throw soup on two Van Goghs, just hours after others are sentenced to jail //
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By the way, the cleaner was lucky the paintings weren’t made by a woman, feminist, Black person, LGBTQ+ member, or Asian, otherwise instead of gaining fame and becoming a popular art critic (lol), he’d face scorn, judgment, and maybe even jail time.
It’s a shame that the real artist, in this case, becomes the one who committed the act of vandalism. This is the problem – the creator is once again pushed to the background, and the artwork stops being the artist’s because it can’t exist outside of the trash…
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