Anybody? No? Dust?

[reportmonkey]

Does a pile of dust and cherry stones constitute as Art. I heard some Artist in the Turner Prize has displayed what amounts to the contents of an old persons Hoover bag.

Also is a painting more that just the application of paint to a surface.

[jake-the-peg]

Does art have to be asthetically appealing? Probably not some great pieces of art are rather gut-wrenching.

I guess art is something that has the ability to evoke an emotional response from the viewer - great art has the ability to evoke a specific intended emotional response to convey a particular message that the artist wanted to say.

Guernica for example.

And like it or loathe it that shark in formaldehyde certainly generated a whole load of emotional responses!

That's my take anyway

I can't see anything similar to your description in the shortlist candidates here:

http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/turnerprize/200 6/

Do you have a link?

[Hellion]

I'm not really sure report monkey but I know I emptied my 8 year old son's pockets before washing and I looked at the collection of paperclips, blutack, string, twigs, conkers, plastic toys and thought it would be a good entry to the Turner Prize!

[divegirl]

Hi, just looked at the above link. The Turner Prize is not usually something I would be interested in, as in previous years I have not found the winning entry to be to my taste, or to that of anybody I have spoken to! Having looked at the entries I realise why! ALL of them are either a pile of c*ap or a c*rap image...literally....what the hell is Loulou all about? Anyone with a decent answer, please feel free to educate me.

Lisa x

[jake-the-peg]

Well apparently

Each object is carefully assembled to draw out its particular emotional and associative resonances, elevating discarded leftovers to the status of art object while flouting conventional hierarchies of display

But if you ask me people like Jackson Pollock who can really make abstract art work come along once in a generation and in the meantime there's an awful lot of discarded leftovers to wade through.

Being less flippant the discarded leftovers angle is obviously a reference back to objet trouv� art from 100 years or so ago.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Found_sound

Marcel Duchamp's water fountain was an adapted urinal. The art in this is to take a common object and relocate it and title it to give it a new significance. Probably to provoke disgust and maybe to get people to consider why that should be- that it is association and not the object itself that provokes that emotion.

But I must say I can't see discarded leftovers or unmade beds as being anything like as clever as that

[divegirl]

Thanks for your answer....but still don't get it....lol....think I'll stick to Animals + Nature and the like....

Many thanks

Lisa x