As The Telegraph reports, the Campaign for the Protection of Rural England (CPRE) recently asked various people to produce a postcard-sized piece of original work epitomising the countryside for a fundraising auction. The Archbishop of York, for example, painted a scene of green fields, nuts and berries.
As for David Cameron? Well, for his submission he cut out a Conservative Party (tree) logo and stuck it on a postcard.
One might say, and indeed the Telegraph does, that this is a “a rather baffling, and even embarrassing, short-cut.”
Though I liked the reaction of their art critic best:
Share:Perhaps it’s a Duchampian gesture of a rejection of the conventional aesthetics of the Conservatives. Or maybe he just couldn’t be bothered with it. Laziness is the great conundrum of conceptual art.
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It’s more like Magritte’s pipe. In this case, “Ceci n’est pas une politique”
Fantastic – can I nominate that for the award for best comment on a LD blog?
I saw this story at someone’s house earlier. It was the most non-story going. The idea that someone with an A level in the History of Art is just silly.