The Pushpin Artwork of Eric Daigh

Nice looking, but using the computer really makes it a gigantic paint-by-numbers set, doesn’t it?

Art is more than execution; it is also conception. He came up with the idea and developed the method to produce what he saw in his mind.

Could nearly anyone else do it? Sure. But it’s easy to copy something after someone else has already developed the idea.

But he’s not even first. We’ve seen this sort of thing quite a bit lately… scanned computer images rendered in dominos, legos, Rubik’s cubes, and whatnot.

I mean, it’s cool and all, but…

I’m with K and V here. It’s interesting but it is not art.

Warhol an artist? Give me a break. He was however smart enough to make millions off the nitwits that think he had talent.

The worst thing is my taxes pay for a lot of this garbage. If it’s good enough it should live on it’s merits and not by money stolen from the masses by the all powerful government.

You may or may not call it art. It does reflect, express a condition of our times, the reduction of the complexity of life to simplistic, basic terms that mean almost nothing in themselves, but gain some value only in relation to other equally simplistic basic elements. Like shallow, common, identical people vying for our attention, individually unremarkable, but seen as a larger group, these people define our “culture” of meaningless, empty star worship. Each push pin can be seen as a plain, boring individual that plays a small, almost insignificant role in making up the mosaic of our self obsessed, “YouTube everything” society. Occasionally an individual differentiates “itself”, but only superficially. Like the difference between a yellow or red push pin. Were all just push pins, as long as we model ourselves on plastic people.