What a waste of a perfectly good Harrier and Jaguar!!

[350wedge]

BBC linky below.... What a waste for the sake of so called 'art'

Dont look Thumper

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainmen ... 434348.stm

[Jigsaw]

Art? What a load of bollox

(at least they weren't scrapped I suppose)

[Mayfly]

OMG don't tell SF he'll taking holiday next to go view it!!!

[Xplumberlives]

Well I guess that it just proves that you can fool people with money to give it away!

[Thumper]

It's K I'll go down during the week, snaffle em out and stick em on the back of me bike

[Mags]

Trust the Tate!

Went there a few years ago and lasted for 10 minutes Couldn't face anymore polystyrene blocks

[Wedgy]

Only one thing to say ...


LOONY!

[Xplumberlives]

(at least they weren't scrapped I suppose)

I think that is possibly the BEST way to treat this misuse of two wonderful airframes. They still exist in a slightly different form and may just inspire someone to go take a look at them as they were intended to be!

[Spitfire]

In a quiet moment I have just stripped out the total bollox from the narrative .........

Harrier and Jaguar - commissioned for the Duveens Galleries - is her largest work to date. The two aircraft create a striking juxtaposition with the Tate's neo-classical surroundings.

The piece is more about our ambivalence to war and how on one level we loathe it and on another level we celebrate it

The Jaguar's polish is important because you see yourself reflected in it - you can't detach yourself from the object

Bollox bollox bollox

Emperor's new clothes ... again

[Nickolas]

I quite like it............

To those of us who are parents can connect with the Jaguar. Many a model plane has been found on the floor in that pose.

The Harrier....... With the feathers paint job could be assimilated to game hanging in the Butchers window.

In any event it's nicer than seeing them on a fire dump or languishing unloved somewhere.

There That's me arty farty bit done for this year.

[Spitfire]

Very good ... I can see that ... if that's what they'd said

But a Harrier is a Hawk - a bird of prey - and wouldn't be seen in a butchers in the first place

And the Jaguar on the kids bedroom floor isn't highly polished so you can't detach yourself from it - you just pick it up and put it away (or tread on it)

Nice try though - have a long rest now - you deserve it

[Nickolas]

Very good ... I can see that ... if that's what they'd said

But a Harrier is a Hawk - a bird of prey - and wouldn't be seen in a butchers in the first place

And the Jaguar on the kids bedroom floor isn't highly polished so you can't detach yourself from it - you just pick it up and put it away (or tread on it)

Nice try though - have a long rest now - you deserve it

Stand corrected on bird of prey.

Art is how the viewer interprets what the artist has produced......

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and all that shit...........

[Xplumberlives]

I quite like it............

To those of us who are parents can connect with the Jaguar. Many a model plane has been found on the floor in that pose.

The Harrier....... With the feathers paint job could be assimilated to game hanging in the Butchers window.

In any event it's nicer than seeing them on a fire dump or languishing unloved somewhere.

There That's me arty farty bit done for this year.

GOOD, we wont have to put up with any more until January!

[Nickolas]

I quite like it............

To those of us who are parents can connect with the Jaguar. Many a model plane has been found on the floor in that pose.

The Harrier....... With the feathers paint job could be assimilated to game hanging in the Butchers window.

In any event it's nicer than seeing them on a fire dump or languishing unloved somewhere.

There That's me arty farty bit done for this year.

GOOD, we wont have to put up with any more until January!

Best you go and check the SCUM thread then..........

[SnailRFC]

I went to the Tate modern "Art" Museum last year and it was the biggest waste of about 3-4 hours akin to watching England trying to claw their way out of a terrible group in the World Cup. If some of that is art then call me Biggles. Glad it was free because I would have been gutted to have paid to gone in having seen some of the content.

[Spitfire]

I went to the Tate modern "Art" Museum last year and it was the biggest waste of about 3-4 hours akin to watching England trying to claw their way out of a terrible group in the World Cup. If some of that is art then call me Biggles. Glad it was free because I would have been gutted to have paid to gone in having seen some of the content.

I think my signature picture says it all

Interloper

I have always said that the Tate St Ives is a most beautiful building completely spoiled by all the pretentious twaddle displayed within it If it was empty it would be just as good

[Mayfly]

I went to the Tate modern "Art" Museum last year and it was the biggest waste of about 3-4 hours akin to watching England trying to claw their way out of a terrible group in the World Cup. If some of that is art then call me Biggles. Glad it was free because I would have been gutted to have paid to gone in having seen some of the content.

No please IA couldn't cope with 2!!!

[Spitfire]

Daily Mail today .......

‘Yes. Mummy is very cross. I told you not to climb inside or press any buttons!’

[Mags]

[Xplumberlives]

Mags, why didn't you draw that cartoon?

[Ultima1]

Funny how the MOD let those planes go to be used for so called art but a group here in the US tried to get some A-10s to use for fire tankes but the Pentagon would not let them have any.

GO FIGURE !!!

[Spitfire]

Peter Hitchens speaks the truth - todays MOS.......

A beautiful achievement reduced to tat

I don’t suppose Sir Sidney Camm, Sir Stanley Hooker or Ralph Hooper ever regarded themselves as artists.

But this trio, who designed the wonderful plane which became famous as the Harrier (and in which I once flew for a glorious, if queasy, 45 minutes), created a thing of great beauty.

Aeroplanes have to be beautiful or they wouldn’t fly, but I’ll leave it to you to work out why that might be.

I would be interested to know how the self-styled ‘artist’ Fiona Banner can claim any real credit for the retired Sea Harrier hung by its tail from the ceiling of what I think in future must be called the Tat Gallery in London.

Did she hoist it up there herself? Could she, sat alone in a room with a pencil and a sheet of paper, make a decent drawing of a Boeing 747 from memory?

Yet this woman, hitherto famous for displaying a long-written description of a pornographic film on a wall, and calling that ‘art’, now receives sighs of praise from our cultural elite.

With fake profundity, Ms Banner asks how an object designed as a ‘killing machine’ can evoke such enthusiasm. Well, apart from the fact that it was designed above all to fly, it rather depends on whom it was meant to kill, and under what conditions.

Maybe defending peaceful islanders against an illegal invasion doesn’t make Ms Banner enthusiastic, but I think it’s a pretty good use of human skill.

Fake profundity: 'Artist' Fiona Banner and the Sea Harrier on display at the Tat(e) Modern

[Xplumberlives]

He speaketh the truth, does he not?

[Aceyone]

He speaketh the truth, does he not?

Right on !

[Jigsaw]

He speaketh the truth, does he not?

Without a shadow of a doubt mate.
The beauty already exists.
Only the added effects of one who wishes she had talent spoils it

Art? MY ARSE.