is this this or this art let’s talk about that oh good mythical morning thank you for joining us today today we’re gonna get all artsy fartsy on you I’m not gonna fartsy on you artsy fartsy so when we talk about so you own anybody talk about fancy works of art okay here’s what’s in store for all of us we’ve got pictures of things which are purple to be art something reported purported to be art I think it’s purported no poor person that’s one of porpoise farts for the from the blow potty humor I don’t know it’s not very artful why does always come back to farts with you and we’re gonna look at these things and we are going to discuss whether they’re really art and we welcome you into the discussion via the comments below or via telepathy Wow cappella the– telepathy just move on that is what I said right telepathy what’s your definition of art right I have thought about do you have a work you have a working definition of art it’s a working it’s a work in progress but I believe that art is something that has purpose it is intentional in other words it had it was purported it had it had intention behind it and it sparks some kind of reaction from people well that that’s and it’s obviously something that’s created by a human what I could be created by an animal but it’s something that has purpose and intention behind it that that elicits a reaiiy NRE a reaction from one of the five senses or more than one of the five senses I think my definition revolves more around an artist wanted to express themselves whether whether there’s so maybe that’s the same thing you’re saying expresses as they have a purpose there’s a there’s there’s something they want to communicate there was intention it was that negative Dental I’m saying maybe maybe maybe they have to communicate anything maybe just need they just need to express themselves and as I have demonstrated many times I express myself often I have no clue what it means yeah and you’re not very artful let’s go through some of these pictures and discuss is this art first one this one is titled fountain by Marcel Duchamp he brought the urinal this urinal into a studio reoriented it to a position 90 degrees of what it’s normally it’s on its back and he wrote on it our period mutt 1 907 the worker was regarded by some art historians and theorists of the avant-garde such as potato burger as a major landmark in twentieth-century art you tell me when you saw when you saw this urinal on its side did you think wow this is a major landmark in twentieth-century art well first of all just side note this is something that you could easily see it a plumbers like warehouse you know in the year 1917 this would be a urinal that had been set aside for Robert Mutt and you know this is like well of course I store it on its side it’s not installed yet and I think the fact that we are now having a conversation about what it actually means reinforces the fact that yes indeed it is art no don’t do this to me okay Rhett this is not art this is a urinal that’s been laid down and somebody scribbled something on it put on you’re not playing a trick on me it was an actual piece of art right yes this is an actual piece of art it isn’t from a warehouse it’s it it’s a famously frivolous piece of art is it good art I don’t think so but I keep show me some other stuff because I don’t I don’t think is I could have done this here’s the second piece concierto spas alley at s by Lucio Fontana it’s like a red painting but it has five scratches in it like little scratches through it like Wolverine ahold of it it’s like I hate that bralla ladder yeah yeah now there you go started a conversation it’s all I’m saying you think this is art yes five scratches by the technical definition of art that I have given yes it is art should it have sold for 1.5 million no he shouldn’t himself in 1.5 million but it did that person is a sucker who bought that thing but that doesn’t mean it’s not alright it just means that you shouldn’t pay 1.5 million dollars because but I could say cuz listen I could go out in the backyard I could paint a canvas red and then get Wolverine to come scratch it or just scratch it myself and say Wolverine did it you’re not gonna pay you’re gonna pay like one point five dollars for that right yeah because it’s not art it’s just you scratching on it on a piece of paper but somebody thinks that it’s art and that kind of makes it art I think if you can talk about something in a fanciful way people think it’s R but that doesn’t make it art like I found this quote the act this act of scratching the paper challenged the entire history of Western easel painting and led him to the understanding that painting is no longer about illusion contained within the dimensions of a canvas but a complex blend of form color architectural space gesture and light the gesture was approaching the canvas with a razor blade and cutting it it’s not much of a gesture next exhibit untitled by site Twombly it scribbles is this art if I met the artist and he told me what this meant I would just have to be like dude I’m sorry it’s that’s not what it means it’s it’s scribbling and he when he sold for how much he two point three million dollars he didn’t even take the time to title it how can it be art if it’s if it doesn’t even have a title it is scribbles he scribbled anyway and he himself knew you know this is just girls I’m not even gonna come up with a title for this one I think this will he was testing he was testing a pencil 2.3 million dollars to test it’s a blue shade of pendulum yeah well still working here’s another unknown sin titty low currently at the LACMA we can go see this when it’s just down the road platinum glazed ceramic characters a pile of characters is this art I’m on the fence with this man I think that he could making me if he made the letters or she made the letters well that take some artisan ship I could not have done that that falls into my definition of art has to be something that I can’t do not something that I just didn’t do I don’t know if you could scribble like that guy I can’t pretty intense I can’t make letters but I could put them in a pile what about this one levitated mass also at the LACMA now okay of everything that has happened so far that you’ve shown me this is the most artistic because I would go out there and I would start asking all kinds of questions like how did they get this up there like what was the machine that made it happen this took like a concerted effort from multiple people and I’m thinking about physics and I’m thinking about geometry to me this is more it’s just again I go back to the thing that it also feet to get a boulder up there but this is a feat of engineering not artistry no it’s all art because there’s purpose behind it and it causes there to be some reaction the question is is it the kind of art that is different from something that your kid would have done I got shot up on that my kids could have done the scribbles I’m not paying 1.5 million for the scribbles I’m not paying anything from the scribbles I’m putting it on the refrigerator and then it’s slowly decaying speaking of kid on a refrigerator in two or less she and that’s dog in French Joan miró estimated two to three million dollar price tag on this I guess that’s a dog looking at a black rock nothing against a cat either he’s about to go into Shannon a cat or a dog I don’t know I’m not the one who knows about this stuff you’re the art expert what we both took French I think this means that we have no grounds to judge art finally blood-red mirror by Gerhard Richter this is a mirror painted red 1.1 million dollars this is ridiculous this kind of reminds me when might when I was a kid my dad had a friend who was getting into painting and he gave my dad a little small painting and he called it Red Square and it was a green painting with a red square in the middle that got a lot of laughs at the McLaughlin household I don’t know if that guy watches the watches the show maybe it was a comedy piece but we’d be like yeah that’s a lot like the red square which was our way of saying that this is not really art and again I realized my technical definition of art lets a lot of things in the door but there are some things that should not be celebrated a red square on a green square should not be celebrated as art and a painted mirror should not be celebrated as art you know weigh in in the comments below you know what time it is hello I’m jarred select from Panama City Beach Florida when you look at that it’s time to spin the wheel mythicality submit your ideas for the wheel of mythicality and we will end the episode with them good mythical more right after this I got some more things that are bad art that I want to show you we can talk about that in good mythical more click through for that might be better than what you’ve already seen link has extreme mood swings know what I have been so moved by this art that I’ve been looking at I just want to celebrate I want to create a party and then I want to kill you because you picked me off I’m so angry at you I don’t even know why I think you’ve been I think it’s the art I just feel so good about getting that off my chest it’s so happy right now a red mirror that you so happy because I hate yeah he found piece of art that someone had thrown away so he made a whole museum based around the fact that people are getting their art thrown away because it’s bad