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[-] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 24 points 4 months ago

I first saw a photo of Fountain when I was high school. My first thought was "That's stupid and the artist is lazy! 'R. Mutt'? What the fuck is that shit!" But starting about a couple days later I began to realize how cool it actually was.

[-] Frank@hexbear.net 17 points 4 months ago

Yeah in the context of it's time and place it's cool as hell. Took me, idk, 36 years to get the joke? But when I did it was a cool joke.

[-] Twinkletoes@lemm.ee 6 points 4 months ago

I still don’t get it

[-] cdf12345@lemm.ee 7 points 4 months ago

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fountain_(Duchamp)

[-] Twinkletoes@lemm.ee 2 points 4 months ago

I still don’t get it…

[-] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 6 points 4 months ago

The joke was on the Society of Independent Artists, they were obligated to accept and exhibit the piece regardless of the fact that "it isn't real art," but paradoxically that fact makes it art.