• unalivejoy@lemmy.zip
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    2 days ago

    It’s modern art. And as everyone knows, most modern art is money laundering with extra steps. It’s totally something Ratigan would do.

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      2 days ago

      modern art ended in c 1970, you’re thinking of postmodern art

      also, postmodern art just describes a movement; only a subset of it is created with illegitimate intent.

      further, art of any era can and has been used for laundering, in the same way that mattresses or real estate may be used :)

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        2 days ago

        also after some quick googling, i learned that the taped banana artwork Comedian by Maurizio Cattelan is from 2019! it came out closer to COVID lockdown than we are now.

        idk if this was shocking to anyone else, i always pictured it as having been created in ~2009!

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      1 day ago

      “Art is about provocation of emotions.”
      “Here’s a thing that made to provoke emotions, and it obviously does since we’re talking about it”
      “No, not like that”