Another example of ghastly graffiti that the avant-garde seem to think is “art”.
A four-storey painting of a penis that piqued the curiosity of New Yorkers when it appeared on Christmas Eve was being painted over on Wednesday – by order of the building’s landlord.
Well, indeed. Who would want the side of their building looking like a public lavatory door, for that is where you would usually expect to find such juvenile scrawls.
The painting, on an apartment building on Broome Street in the Lower East Side, was commissioned by a local street art foundation and made by a Swedish artist, Carolina Falkholt, as a companion to a similarly vast if more abstract vagina, further east on Pike Street.
Oh, my, so clever, so risque, so well, avant-garde. I’m impressed, aren’t you? After all, pictures of pricks and pussies, it’s so challenging dear, so uninhibiting, so…
Well, you get the gist. However, like Wanksie who goes around daubing his crapola all over Bristol without so much as a by or leave, this woman is using canvases that are owned by other people – other people these vandals don’t think to you know, ask, before splurging their infantile daubs all over them.
So, the landlord has done precisely as I would do – remove it. The question now is who picks up the bill, here? Okay rhetorical question as these people wouldn’t stoop to clearing up their own shit at their own cost, they leave that to others.
In her exchange with the Guardian, Falkholt was philosophical.
“Art,” she said, “is one of the only places left where we can truly be free and discuss whatever difficult topics there are, since art has the ability to translate and transform language in any direction possible.”
Ah, yes, classic artbollocks straight out of Pseud’s Corner. A giant prick or pussy painted on a building is not discussing anything, difficult or otherwise. It’s vandalism. Nothing more, nothing less. The “artist” is a pretentious, pompous self-important jerk who thinks that her vandalism qualifies as art. It doesn’t, any more than Wanksie’s puerile daubs do.
Imagine the OUTRAGE if she’d have painted a similarly mutilated (FGM) cunny.
Yes, I noticed that. Male circumcision is all fine and dandy, but the female version is mutilation. The double standards are stark.
I noted also that the newspaper didn’t post a photo of the vagina…..just a link to the image on fecesbook.
““I usually paint giant vaginas, pussies and cunts,” she said”
I don’t know the difference between the three. Have I lived a particularly sheltered life?
Clearly. Either that or you don’t understand art.
Allow me to explain: Vagina is the bit inside (ie the hole itself), ‘pussy’ is a naff twee word for the ‘vulva’and by ‘cunt’ I assume the artist meant Hilary Clinton.
No, no, don’t thank me, happy to help. 😛
Mrs Slocombe might have a different meaning for pussy, mind…
Catty!
OK, I’ll get my coat…
I wonder what her house looks like
Why isn’t this ‘Street art foundation’ being prosecuted and shut down? It is promoting illegal activity, that would seem to be the reason for its existence. I wonder if it possible to rob banks in an arty way.
Yes, they should be vigorously prosecuted and pay the full cost of repairs.
Plus compensation for the aggro and disturbance, too.