Plain cruel, please sign

It is things like this that just confirm my suspicions that the majority of the art world is full of complete idiots who simply couldn't succeed in other subjects so found themselves producing abstract rubbish to be applauded by fellow simpletons.

It doesn't provoke thought or stimulate debate (except amongst other supposed arty types) it is just incredibly dumb. All he has achieved in reality is a cheap publicity stunt.

It seems these days that you could literally just take a crap on the floor in a gallery but so long as you had a a small bit of card full of long words and pseudo-intellectual bull **** then other art people would nod approvingly and claim to 'understand' your work. Clearly anyone who points out that it is just a poo on the floor just isn't intelligent or open minded enough to get it. The emperor has no clothes etc...

FWIW the tate modern in London is full of plenty of works/installations that might as well just be bits of poo on the floor.
 
That is one of the worst things I have ever seen in my life, not because of how disgusting it is but how people go to see it and look at it in an artistic way. It's not art, just pure torture.
 
I think that's an absolutely disgusting thing to do.

However, it's obviously an extremely successful piece of art. It's irritating, but all of this banter, and all of the controversy that the piece has stirred up is exactly what the artist would have set out to create. Whether that makes it even more disturbing is up to you.
 
Depends really. On the one hand it's disgraceful, on the other it highlights the attitude of many nations towards stray (un-kept) animals. My mother lives in south Spain and rescues animals on a weekly basis. Of course it also reflects on apathy. Who are we to say really?, millions of dogs/people lay starving at I type this, and most will die with no impact.

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Its just a way for a crap artist to get worldwide attention.

I would still like to kick his ass :D
 
Questioning the legitimacy of the story as a whole - claims the dog never died and was fed at night: http://www.tormentasenlamente.org/2008/02/animaladas.php

According to the museum director, the dog was fed and watered: http://digg.com/pets_animals/Clarification_regarding_the_Starving_Dog_for_Art_story


A quote from the artist:
The importance to me is the hypocrisy of the people where an animal is the focus of attention where people come to see art but not when it's in the street starving to death. The same thing happened with poor Natividad Canda. The people sympathized with him only after he was dead.
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It wouldn't happen here of course(I hope) but that doesn't excuse the artist or the viewers. Quite obviously not what I would call art but simply an act of cruelty.
 
"let he who is without sin, cast the first stone"

never mind a stone i will drop a bloody big bolder on that ****er that is one sick sod
 
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