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Artist Marco Evaristti needed 790 gallons (3,000 liters) of red paint, three fire hoses, two icebrakers, a twenty-man crew, and two hours to paint an iceberg in the Ilulissat Fiord, Greenland in 2004. Evaristti said: "It’s so poetic, it looks like a red pea" |
Simon7
Whilst this is cool - I really hope that red gloop is biodegradable & non-toxic.
catsav
One could acomplish the same effect in 7.9 minutes with a one-man crew and a PMS 1797 swatch in Photoshop. 100% eco-friendly.
jojo
this makes me sick, so some art maggot can use some red paint to deface an iceberg, what's the point? i don't care what this person's "vision" is, but we are
so beyond this artistically. one word, boring and
too late.
donna
Damn it. Now we're going to have pink polar bears....
L
A red PEA? Or red PEE (akin to yellow snow, perhaps)?
I guess I just don't get modern art.
Gabi
It's as if this kind of "artist" thought that nature wasn't beautiful enough itself.
It reminds me of the seal killing http://www.all-creatures.org/anex/seal.html
Alli
I feel the same way, was there nothing more environmentally friendly than paint available. *Shakes head*
Man
Dear Marco,
Why didn't you paint your eye balls green?
Why didn't you bleach your tougne white? or simply boil it till off-white?
Why didn't you mutate your skull (not your hairstyle)?
Or, why not mummify your manhood?
And of course, exempt yourself from medical care when enjoying any of these funs.
Dj Estilo
I agree what some one had stated before this can be done if photoshop 2 minutes top ... better too
pld
yeah, that seal killing site is pretty cool
Kil
This guy is what we call a "wannabe". That's not f---in art. That's a waste of time and a cry for attention. His site sucks balls too. Lemme guess, he ordered a "learn how to draw" video from TV and stamped himself an artist? LMAO
Ted
There's one artist I'd gladly see starve.
Web site seemed a little inane. Don't know if it was the broken English, or the silly concepts. I think the silly concepts.
Ron
This reaction is all a part of what the art is.
Catpaw
I hear that argument about art provoking thought all the time, but if you're conscious and aware, everything provokes thought. And really conscious work provokes consiousness. I think art is grace and it needs to be as rich a deifnition and interpretation as we inwardly demand from corporations, health care workers...and ourselves. That is not art...I saw someone scatter animal bones and call it art. If they were the bones of someone's you knew and cared about, it would not be art. There are more important things to think about...if art provokes thought, maybe people should consider what thought's need provoking. There are so many! I mean this caringly.
The Pit Bull
I think it would have been better painted white....
Leslie
I hope that the paint does not hurt or harm the animals in the icy waters. Otherwize, it is a spectacular scene. I wonder what it looks like from the air?
Zip, zip...dot dot dot, spanga spanga, spoodle de doo.
LOVE,
GRANNY.
Simon
I agree with catsav (see post #2). Photoshop could achieve this pic. I suppose witnessing this disturbance of nature in the flesh may have seemed impressive at the time, but what extreme insensitivity to the current world climate + concern at the environmental abuse of basically dumping toxins in a prestine environment. If I found an endangered snow leopard and killed it and posted a pic, would that be art? No. I'd just be something that rhymes with 'Anchor'. And that is what this guy essentially is. W-----. This is not art.
force
seriously, you put paint on something that the world is trying to save. i agree with #2 - do it in photoshop next time. being artsy just to be artsy...stupid.
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