Originally Posted by chodadog

Modern art is nothing but a con. I remember seeing a painting of a small red square on a large white canvas. Just a simple red square. Maybe about 3 inches by 3 inches. Fucking thing sold for some ridiculous amounnt of money. Well over 20 thousand dollars.

Back when i was in highschool, we went on this school camp. The art students had to make these paper mache "installations" based on the trees in the area. The one group just drapped paper mache all around the tree, in long strips. The art teacher comes along, and starts praising it.

"It's so deep. It's like the tree represents humanity, and the paper mache strips are the bars of the prison that is society, and the branches are people trying to break free from society's constraints."

When the idiot left, i asked the people who did it if that was what they were going for. They said they just thought it looked kind of cool. Hahaha.