Art Fartsake Rises to the Surface
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>Feces Painting Divides Art Lovers
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>Monday June 14 8:41 AM ET Reuters
>FRANKFURT (Reuters) - German art lovers are turning up their
>noses at an abstract picture painted with the artist's own
>feces.
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>``The colors are fantastic,'' countered another 50-year-old
>woman who viewed the painting. ``I'd find a space for that
>in my home.''
Obviously a liberal. ;-)
Gary Cruse
Feces Painting Divides Art Lovers
Monday June 14 8:41 AM ET Reuters
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - German art lovers are turning up their
noses at an abstract picture painted with the artist's own
feces.
The painting, on display at Frankfurt's Museum of Modern
Art, depicts brown, egg-like shapes surrounded by an
off-white line. It doesn't smell because it is coated with
resin, German tabloid daily newspaper Bild reported.
The 35-year-old artist, Anton Henning, said he had eaten a
large meal to give himself sufficient material for the
painting.
``It was created in 1995 after I enjoyed a meal of
Koenigsberg dumplings, mustard gherkins, beetroot, potatoes,
watermelon and lemon juice, Rheingau riesling wine and a big
brownie,'' he told the paper.
Henning guarantees that he did not need to dilute his feces
in order to complete his oeuvre.
The picture has suffered a mixed reception. ``Yuk, it really
makes me want to throw up,'' one 50-year-old woman told the
newspaper.
``It's sick,'' said a 29-year-old man.
``The colors are fantastic,'' countered another 50-year-old
woman who viewed the painting. ``I'd find a space for that
in my home.''
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