Insane people float Brunel's SS Great Britain on Jelly

[Chippiewill]

A ship moored in Bristol has been "floated" in a sea of neon-green jelly as part of a cultural festival.

The ss Great Britain, which is now a visitor attraction, is one of 10 sites to be matched with artists as part of the Museums at Night season.

The ship's glass "sea" has been covered with 55,000 litres of jelly which will be lit from below after sunset.

A spokesman for the tourist attraction said the jellymongers' work would make a "stunning" piece of modern art.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-18116830

Now I like Brunel, an I like art, but this just takes a whole new level of messed up in the head to think up. Brunel is turning in his grave.

[dbgtz]

"A spokesman for the tourist attraction said the jellymongers' work would make a "stunning" piece of modern art."

Anything can be classed as art nowadays, it's absurd. The jelly just kills the aesthetics of the ship and to be quite frank, the jelly should have never been added. Whoever thought this up is ******ed.

[-:Undertaker:-]

I hope the taxpayer isn't paying for this.

I'm not even going to comment on the 'art' other than asking, can I have whatever they're having?

[Inseriousity.]

Lol was reading about an exhibition of "invisible" paintings. one piece called 1000 hours of staring and the artist just stared at blank piece of paper. hmmm yeah people call anything art

[Succubus]

Lol was reading about an exhibition of "invisible" paintings. one piece called 1000 hours of staring and the artist just stared at blank piece of paper. hmmm yeah people call anything art

What a great example....

Personally I like art, but things like a blank piece of paper? I don't see anything inspiring in that at all unless you are looking to create a piece of blank paper yourself.

And really, a boat on jelly? I'm surprised a kid hasn't decided to get a spoon and eat it all.
(A really bad choice of colour as well ;I)

[FlyingJesus]

Even my bat**** insane tutors can't have anything positive to say about this I'm sure

[Chippiewill]

The nightmare isn't the fact that they call this art, the horrible part is what they have done to Brunel's creation. Brunel is the greatest engineering mind of the nineteenth century.. and all time. The SS Great Britain, the first steam powered propeller ship to cross the atlantic (In fourteen days no less) surrounded by jelly, it's appalling what they've done to a great engineering triumph and shameful that the company responsible for the SS Great Britain and for Brunel's legacy would let something so contradictory occur.

[GommeInc]

This isn't art. Unfortunately, no word exists to describe uncreative, unimaginative rubbish like this. People who find smearing any odd material they can find on canvas or any form of minor exhibitionism seem to label their "achievements" as art to make themselves seem far better than they actually are. They cannot draw, they cannot sculpt, they cannot print... They are useless and infantile in their approach to what is "art". Modern artists don't make anything, they are just a new form of creative writer, who only enjoy writing, at length, how their poo in a jam jar reflects modern day politics.

It's fun and different, but please don't label it art because it certainly shouldn't be put under the same category as the great art of history and the greatest artists of all time.

/rant

[jasey]

I won't say that 'art is subjective'. I am sure that thought popped in to someone's head when they saw this and I would recommend they read LaFave's piece on the difference between 'subjective' and 'objective'. That being said, no one decides what and what isn't art. It's fair to say that you think this is a waste of time better used doing something different, that it is offensive to the ship and its creator, that it is a gross waste of money that could go to helping the less fortunate or whatever else bothers you about this creation.

You cannot say that it isn't art. That isn't a word that has a quantitative measure to decide pieces that meet its criteria. The word 'art' does have a definition but there really isn't any way to fit pieces in or out of the classification. It is an absurd thing to say if you are able to understand the concept critically. I haven't actually taken an opinion on the piece as of yet. For the record, I think it is tasteless and it doesn't impress me at all. It clearly meant something to someone, though, because something like this isn't a project you put together with a few pennies and your best mate over an afternoon.