Comments on: Spinster aunt pukes on Jeff Koons (but it’s not Art Week yet)

By: Jeff Koons Deconstructed By Spinster Aunt Twisty, Whom I Am In Love With | Cyanology: the Blog

Thu, 03 Nov 2011 15:32:02 +0000

[...] being overpriced garbage in general, his “work” is deeply sexist overpriced garbage. Spinster Aunt Twisty elaborates so I don’t have to. On Koons’ “pieces” portraying the artist in coitus with [...]

By: vitaminC

vitaminC — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 19:58:38 +0000

I saw the prong sculpture in London. Let’s just say this guy has a pretty inflated opinion of himself.

By: Antoinette Niebieszczanski

Antoinette Niebieszczanski — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 18:26:53 +0000

When I was nine, some perv in a car showed me his schlong. Was weenie-waving his idea of performance art?

By: Jill

Jill — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 15:19:21 +0000

More attention was paid to how someone said something rather than what that person was trying to convey.

The picking of nits is often an indulgence of the supercilious, but ideas that are imperfectly expressed are often imperfectly understood, both by the expresser and the expressee. Even so, I rarely consider grammar error alone a sufficient reason to zap a comment, so I wonder, who do you think is inflicting this elitist punishment?

By: Jezebella

Jezebella — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 01:51:23 +0000

You know, ew_nc, you are attributing intentions to commenters that you cannot be sure of. You claim we’re “showing off”, which is unkind and unfair. Perhaps some of us think of it as *contributing to the dialogue*, eh? Calling someone an intellectual elitist because they (okay, *I*) happen to know more about art than the average bear, because it’s my fucking PROFESSION?? The hell with that. When blamers share their knowledge, I think it’s great. I love learning stuff here. I love learning about science and nature stuff and feminist history from other blamers. It’s shitty to tell women who know stuff to shut up because other women DON’T know that stuff.

By: Embee

Embee — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 20:43:10 +0000

Have always been intimidated by art because I feel like I don’t “get” it. I mean, sure, I like some of Rothko’s works and the Mona Lisa actually made me cry but I cannot form a coherent critique of this guy’s stuff because it makes me sick. And I don’t want to look at it.

This: “In My World, men would have their dicks on their chins.” Yee. Haw.

By: ew_nc

ew_nc — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 15:24:42 +0000

Jezebella – yeah, really. I get real tired of the intellectual elitist comments, wherein blamers get to show off their liberal arts degrees by picking apart minor inaccuracies in another’s comments. As far as I’m concerned that’s just women oppressing other women who didn’t have the luxury of advanced education. Have you noticed how often a woman feels she has to apologize for not phrasing something correctly? More attention was paid to how someone said something rather than what that person was trying to convey. This is the same shit that happened on the message boards.

By: AileenWuornos

AileenWuornos — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 09:50:29 +0000

Koons makes me ill. The scary thing about the link that j posted to deviantart is it’s apparently a self-portrait.

It’s scary how my peers don’t see anything wrong with any of this.

By: Hattie

Hattie — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 04:01:07 +0000

Jill: I’ve seen a lot of the violence porn and plain old porn and vapid kitsch that is called art in Europe. The marriage of violence, porn, and kitsch goes way back. It’s just that like everything else there is so much more of it these days.

By: Jezebella

Jezebella — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 00:16:43 +0000

Oldenburg predates Koons by about 4+ decades, and is actually a lot more interesting and less wangy than Koons. Well, that depends on your feelings about Pop Art, I’d guess.