For my Chinese culture class we all have to go to the Center For the Arts and look at the Chinese art there. This was all well and good, and I was going around with my little pad of paper and jotting things down like a good student until I came to this one:::

They had a bed with a clear mattress on it filled with water and an oxygen tank. There were about a dozen goldfish inside. All of them were clustered at the top gulping up the water at the top of the mattress. As if this wasn't disturbing enough, I looked at the plaque on the wall that was to explain it, and it had a detailed account about how the "artist" finally "got it right", and maneuvered it so the fish could live. He had apparently been trying for years, and forgot frivolous things like oxygen and food which resulting in dozens of fish dieing at a time for the sake of his masterpiece. :(

Does anyone else find this disturbing? I was trying to explain it to my friend, and she said I was being obsessive and that it was no different then having a fish tank. I really think it is though, if not for just the "trial and error" phase and so many lives wasted to produce this outcome that I'm not sure is really an "art form", (maybe I'm just to dense and literal though.... I'm not claiming to be anyone with a sort of authority on this) but for the purpose this was trying to produce. An entertainment value for people. :-/

I don't know... what does everyone think about this?:evil:

The mistreatment of fish, particularly gold fish is a huge pet peeve of mine. If someone suffocated a dog to death or let it burn its lungs out on ammonia until it died there would be criminal and social repercussions, but no one cares if the same thing happens to a fish. It makes me incredibly angry, and I'm sorry you had to see it.

There's an idiotic artist born every minute. Fish need oxygen and food! Oh yeah!

Putting fish in things; it's been done. No original idea there.

It makes me incredibly angry, and I'm sorry you had to see it.

I was just so unprepared for it too. I was in an art gallery... when I'm at the supermarket, I know not to go into certain sections; but an art gallery??? WTF.:furious:

What on earth was the artist trying to say?

What on earth was the artist trying to say?

I don't know. At least I know I'm not the dense and "obsessive" person people were trying to make it out to seem. Sometimes I don't know what I would do without VB and all of y'all....:wayne: :love:

Clearly the artist was not using his art to communicate if you couldn't figure out what he was trying to say, even with some kind of explanation posted!

Bad, bad artist!:whack:

Maybe he was trying to say he hates goldfish and hes a big sicko sadist?

That's disturbing. My history teacher told me about an artist who dropped a huge stone slab on a rat to smush it and called his "masterpiece", 'Flattened Rat on Canvas' or something like that.

My my, i'm an artist, i'm creative, but I have never seen or heard of this. I've never seen animals used in art this kind of way. In all of the gallerys I have been too, they have never had this kind of art in it. I'm shocked. It's weird even for this aritst.

The mistreatment of fish, particularly gold fish is a huge pet peeve of mine. If someone suffocated a dog to death or let it burn its lungs out on ammonia until it died there would be criminal and social repercussions, but no one cares if the same thing happens to a fish. It makes me incredibly angry, and I'm sorry you had to see it.
Agreed.