Holocaust ash art

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A painting by a Swedish artist which he says was made with ashes from a former Nazi concentration camp has been displayed in a gallery in Sweden.

Artist Carl Michael von Hausswolff said that he stole the ashes from the Majdanek camp during a visit in 1989.

The camp, now a museum in Poland, has called the alleged theft an "unimaginably barbaric act".

The artist said the ashes were mixed with water and used to paint a series of grey streaks in the small painting.

Museum officials have said that the painting may be an artistic provocation but it deserves only condemnation.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-20622289

I dunno, I'd rather end up in a painting than in the ground. Art is about pushing boundaries of thought, expression and morality and this does the job nicely.
 
He stole ashes from there?! and you think this is awesome? honestly this angers me because if he was given them by consent then i could say fair enough, but he stole them years ago and waited and waited to then use them in his art to gain money, he is not an artist hes a joke, simple
 
Maybe someone should steal the art, burn it and use the ashes in some sort of memorial to art.
 
However, he writes that in 2010 he decided to use the ashes mixed with water and describes figures appearing on the page "as if the ash contained energies or memories or 'souls' from people... people tortured, tormented and murdered by other people in one of the 20th Century's most ruthless wars".

Above is what he was quoted saying?! hes a ******* nut job!
 
Maybe we need to steal the art, burn it, then steal his dog and burn that, then re-create the art from the dog ashes and then burn it again for good measure. Then mail him bits of the ashes of his ex dog/art/mix in 10 ounce bags at a time with a 1 usd note. And then steal all the notes and burn them too!

... now where was I going with this?...
 
Since the invention of the camera, computers and mass production of pottery, 'art' has become a bit of joke and anyone that does any random action between two often unlinked items suddenly becomes an 'artist'. Stick a lollipop on cat's head, you're an artist; shove a glove on top of a mop and that's art too.

Go back to Van Gough's time and try and claim an elephant turd on a china plate is 'art', you'd be laughed out of town (as they should do now instead of getting prizes and awards).

Don't get me wrong, I've got a lot of respect for modern painters and photographers, but in my experience most people who call themselves 'artists' are upper-middle class layabouts who do 'art' to avoid actually having to do a proper job. Tracey Emin is a great example, an alcoholic, coke head who managed to convince other rich morons to pay her for creating stuff like an unmade bed and somehow makes a career out of it.

Pretentious bull*** most of it.
 
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Snomad said:
However, he writes that in 2010 he decided to use the ashes mixed with water and describes figures appearing on the page "as if the ash contained energies or memories or 'souls' from people... people tortured, tormented and murdered by other people in one of the 20th Century's most ruthless wars".

Above is what he was quoted saying?! hes a ******* nut job!
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deluded nutjob feeling guilty.
 
estebanrey said:
Since the invention of the camera, computers and mass production of pottery, 'art' has become a bit of joke and anyone that does any random action between two often unlinked items suddenly becomes an 'artist'. Stick a lollipop on cat's head, you're an artist; shove a glove on top of a mop and that's art too.

Go back to Van Gough's time and try and claim an elephant turd on a china plate is 'art', you'd be laughed out of town (as they should do now instead of getting prizes and awards).

Don't get me wrong, I've got a lot of respect for modern painters and photographers, but in my experience most people who call themselves 'artists' are upper-middle class layabouts who do 'art' to avoid actually having to do a proper job. Tracey Emin is a great example, an alcoholic, coke head who managed to convince other rich morons to pay her for creating stuff like an unmade bed and somehow makes a career out of it.

Pretentious bull*** most of it.
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As an artist myself i agree with every bloody word of this.
 
Cut his arms off; burn them and the paint him two new ones with the ashes and staple them to the stumps, that way he can fully express his creativity as a sick douche bag.
 
Lysander said:
Art is about pushing boundaries of thought, expression and morality and this does the job nicely.
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I think I agree.

Using the ashes of one person, or several known people, would be unacceptable to me. Instead, I think these ashes represent a phenomenon, an atrocity, something unthinkable, harrowing and impossible.
 
I think if you asked the people who died in the concentration camp, they'd quite like to have been remembered this way. But as per usual, the PC army is out and about.
 
Is it any worse than turning the camps (ash and all) into tourist attractions?

IMO the whole lot should have been knocked down and a proper respectful memorial built not these morbid museums.
 
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