Now this is art!

by TosspoT • 29 Sep 2009, 13:48 • Journals
I'm not big on new art, or old art for that matter! However this I caught my fancy during my daily BBC refreshfest:

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"Chinese artist Chen Wenling critiques the global financial crisis in What You See Might Not Be Real, on display at a Beijing gallery. The bull is said to represent Wall Street, while the man pinned to the wall represents jailed financier Bernard Madoff."
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Jo0f 29 Sep 2009, 14:50
One hell of a fart
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freeze 29 Sep 2009, 14:52
lal, oke !
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mlo 29 Sep 2009, 14:52
i lol'd...
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Bluman 29 Sep 2009, 14:54
only thing we need is matches
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Nub 29 Sep 2009, 14:55
I dont like chinese :$.
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Vanhaomena 29 Sep 2009, 14:55
Lol :D He just made a fucking kick-ass work of art and came up with some DEEP "interpretation" as a joke. Kudos to him.
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Reni 29 Sep 2009, 17:49
stop leering.
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Noorgrin 29 Sep 2009, 15:00
hello my favorite QuakeLive victim !
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flR 29 Sep 2009, 15:03
BULL_FART_TURBO_PWNAGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Thomm 29 Sep 2009, 15:24
I like the original Wall Street bull more :/

image: 2049462-the-famous-wall-street-bull-0
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imabob 29 Sep 2009, 15:56
ive touched those balls dude
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dexter 29 Sep 2009, 15:58
was it a good feeling?
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eiM 29 Sep 2009, 16:12
I've sat on top of his head
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TheDuck 29 Sep 2009, 15:29
Whoa good shit :D
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Superboyy 29 Sep 2009, 15:33
if that bull was representing wall street it should be laying in a corner dying
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decem 29 Sep 2009, 15:44
in other words beating the shit out of all the financiers
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Superboyy 29 Sep 2009, 15:52
madoff didnt get beat by wall street :s

all the people who invested got beaten by madoff, who then "made off" with their money but was caught.

when the stock market crashes wall street cant be represented by a raging bull :/ more like a burst balloon.
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decem 29 Sep 2009, 16:27
well youre right, thats quite random in a sense. what I said would be the case when its 'just' a financier, not madoff.
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Xo 29 Sep 2009, 17:39
nono missing the point,
the global economy, stockmarket goes down because of the free market system and wallstreet.
So the bull represents wallstreet, taking down the investers, who lose their money because of the bubble system they created!
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sol 29 Sep 2009, 18:11
Free market system? What?
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Xo 29 Sep 2009, 18:48
free economy, you know what i mean. Even though it's a farce.
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sol 29 Sep 2009, 19:02
Actually, I don't know what you mean! What free market system?!
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Xo 30 Sep 2009, 00:01
Don't use your smartass admin face on meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
I shall have you arrested!
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sol 30 Sep 2009, 00:30
Explain yourself.
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Xo 30 Sep 2009, 03:13
I'm the internets police! (And i know some ppl with the IRA, Etnies, that could bomb you aswell! HA)
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Superboyy 29 Sep 2009, 18:12
what do you mean by wall street? investors who made irresponsible "bets" with other peoples money are wall street. the bull could only represent the government.
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Xo 29 Sep 2009, 18:50
wallstreet being the abstract economy, the slumbering beast which turned around and screwed every1 over now. Yes those investers are wallstreet, but you could also view wallstreet as the system, the market. As it's ultimately the market that made us get into this mess.
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Severus 29 Sep 2009, 15:41
I agree this is art, not picasso and the rest of the faggets
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head 29 Sep 2009, 15:44
I don't like it - it's a dull try to reach the interest of lots of people by expressing the opinion of the general public... has nothing to do with art imo but it surely is a way to make people more interested in "art"
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xedos 29 Sep 2009, 15:47
link to article?? I think I missed that...
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crook 29 Sep 2009, 15:55
nucleair farts have always been my favourite kind
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samAel 29 Sep 2009, 15:59
looks amazing
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Krosan 29 Sep 2009, 15:59
saw it in the local newspaper too!

just... amazing :D
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GreenClon 29 Sep 2009, 16:20
this is crap.. how can be this considered as art?
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pepe 29 Sep 2009, 16:24
TosspoT in other news.
www.facebook.com could not be found.
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azuKi 29 Sep 2009, 17:29
This is a win.
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Hexagon 29 Sep 2009, 17:30
i want one of those
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koop 29 Sep 2009, 18:19
;o
looks wicked
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Esclaw 29 Sep 2009, 18:25
it should be a bear as the bearish trend dominated wall street stocks during the financial crisis :(
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