"Fine Art" my 5 year-old could make (am I being pranked?)

[@paniellenolvard359]

The Candy pile has a story which brings me to tears...Untitled (Portrait of Ross in L.A.), also known as Candy Spill, is a 1991 art installation by Cuban American minimalist artist Felix Gonzalez-Torres that depicts a portrait of his partner Ross Laycock, who died of AIDS-related complications in 1991. The installation is made of 175 pounds of Jolly Rancher-style candy, which corresponds to Ross's ideal body weight. The piece is intended to be interactive, with visitors taking candy as they view it, which gradually diminishes the pile and symbolizes Ross's disappearance. It's about love and loss.

[@kathleenallen2046]

That actually sounds impressive

[@angelaschnelly]

Kinetic toothpick guy's project was absolutely incredible! That takes some real skill and talent to make.

[@jessschwarze8126]

Yeah it’s awesome I think it would look better if he had nice coloured balls instead of random coloured ones, like even just black or red ones

[@edelleaa]

it probably took months as well. it was absolutely insane!

[@sybriusart6137]

my fav was the cracked glass portrait and the shoe illusion. but the washing machine with the fish cracked me up.

[@grantpowell4135]

I was expecting like a thumper from dune the way it was making that sound

[@onepman]

im very happy someone else, along with 38 other ppl, agree with me. i felt the exact same way about all 3.

[@TheAttendee]

"artists" love to use the "does it elicit a feeling? then its art" argument until I remind them I'm disgusted by genocide. Suddenly eliciting a feeling doesn't make it art anymore.

[@Mama_Bear524]

I’ve never known how to respond to those pretentious blow hards. Now I know! Perfect thank you!!

[@JutlandAngel]

A lot of modern art really reminds me of "The emperor's new clothes". Where the artist is the scammers, the art is the "clothes", the emperor is the buyer, the townsfolk is the enthusiast, and the rest of us are the little boy wondering why a naked man is walking around the town.

[@NealBurkard-ut1oo]

Right. The one where the "artist" uses a hammer on the TV can easily be a scam. The glass was probably designed to fragment that way and the live performance is crucial for it to be a successful scam.

[@jonburgart8649]

the sellers are postmodern sophists

[@pameladyke1462]

this was exactly my thoughts as i was watching this.

[@Djuntas]

art is just like stock...there is no way tesla had the value it once had, but if people think it keeps its value or keep going up...

[@jameshopkins503]

Once I worked in an art museum, and one artist had his display of just a pile of old clothes thrown on the floor, people would stand around it, staring in awe and one night at closing I found some really cute pants that fit me and I took them home and wore them for years lol.

[@TastyScotch]

The art behind modern art isnt the art itself, its the art of convincing people that the art you make is art worth being paid attention to.

[@shocked-by-your-nonsense]

it's really just a way to turn money into an asset. Then you have an easy way to insure it, sell it, let it appreciate in value since it is considered to have value in the art world, and it's much easier to move than millions of dollars (IRL, obviously moving big money is easier when it's all digital).

[@gulubdur]

I had a roommate in college that moved out and took his dart board but left the cork board backing. As a goof I stabbed a fork into it. At a party 3 people were standing around looking at it trying to figure out what the "art" meant.

[@kinkyspannertwister6843]

AAAAND THAT says it all lol

[@kirstenfischer3]

Did you come up with a fake meaning to play into it?

[@MeribelNova]

Did you wind up selling it? 🤣

[@paddington1670]

that's hilarious

[@someone2506]

Derivative!

[@thoseponyvibes]

Crazy thing is, some artists have admitted they did it as a joke and to laugh at the idiots who would pay so much or applaud them.

[@spkyby]

i think many (if not most) artists are in on the joke, and it’s the viewers that are the schmucks lol

[@austinnsuff6576]

I love art. I love that art takes hard work and teaches me to explore different parts of my brain. This nonsense is not art, it is an insult.

[@candyace]

Some of this is for sure money laundering and not actually art. But readymade art and abstract art movements are art and have been for over a century and originally were made to show that art doesn’t have to be valuable. My personal favorite readymade artist is Felix Gonzalez-Torres, the artist who did the pile of candy in the video. The pile is usually the weight of an adult male. His partner died due to AIDS and allowing people to take the candy may refer to how AIDS takes away from someone until they pass.

[@grantpowell4135]

I learned how art works from always sunny in Philadelphia

[@shocked-by-your-nonsense]

you're not the one in charge of what art is and isn't or what qualities it must have.

[@austinnsuff6576]

@@shocked-by-your-nonsense Based off of your other comments I can tell that you walk around trying to prove that you're 'the smartest person in the room'. But my opinion on art doesn't change.

[@edelleaa]

@@candyace that sounds pretty interesting actually (and sad) but... is it really "art"? it feels more like some sort of social experiment exhibition thing. its just hard for me personally to call a pile of candy a piece of art even if it has a deep story behind it but its nice to know it does have a meaning to it!

[@jermicidal7506]

That sudden cut talking about schizophrenia to just a disembodied voice was top tier editing.

[@loading...4304]

Perfect at 4:39😂

[@betsybabf748]

When our eldest son was 3, we woke up to find he made hundreds of lines, about 2" long, all over his walls with a blue crayon he had snuck into his room. He said he was drawing "candles", like candles on a birthday cake. We spent the day scrubbing the walls. I didn't realize we could have made millions.

[@Sadlander2]

My ex-girlfriend loves art exhibitions, so I used to go with her to see some exhibitions. There was this "modern art" exhibition of a guy who filmed his face, he made a separate video of each angle and then showed the videos on separate TV screens that were distributed around the venue. People stopped and stared at those screens with a serious expression on their face, not just for a minute or two but they stood there forever! Even my ex looked at me and said "OK, let's get out of here".

[@pokerfacenino]

The piece of candy piece is actually incredibly heartbreaking. It's named "Untitled" (Portrait of Ross in L.A.), Ross being the artist's late partner who died of AIDS during the intial epidemic. The pile is intended to be approximately 175lbs (weight of an average man in Ross' generation) and as guests take a piece at a time, it's a metaphor for the slow wasting away that people dying of AIDS experience... at the same time as causing a thousand tiny moments of joy in those around them. The artist has made very clear that wherever the piece goes, it maintains it's name: Portrait of Ross.

[@SnowieShiba]

I've seen this one before and always wondered the actual story behind it. So many people roast it as just being a pile of candy.

[@MelanaC]

I’m so glad you explained this piece cos when I first saw it and read the meaning I cried

[@jbird4478]

@@SnowieShiba Because it is just a pile of candy. You can tell some sob story around it, but that doesn't change what it is.

[@annajosullivan]

I saw a report recently of painting that just looked like a toddler scribbled with a red crayon and it sold for millions of dollars. I was like, dang, a few of my really young grandkids need to get busy!

[@gammyeme]

My 10 yr old granddaughter loves abstract art. That's what I get for being a good grandma expanding her horizons 😂

[@froydinger]

loving the lore building with Leon either entirely making up or hiring mrs. lush to be his wife. Bringing the drama

[@starparodier91]

I had an Art History class in college and my professor had a degree in modern art and even she said it’s mostly BS lol. I do love visiting the art museum, though.

[@terminaldeity]

The modern art movement was a CIA op. Sounds ridiculous, but it's true.

[@lindaartz3297]

Same here and I was in college

[@lindaartz3297]

Get Jackson a trampoline and a sharpie and put it next to the wall.

[@petermarkley]

As a lifelong artist and an art school graduate, I have studied this issue a lot. I think it makes the most sense to think of modern art as a philosophical cult that worships postmodern subjectivism. However, since postmodern subjectivism is incoherent (indeed is purposely so), you can’t build a functioning system on it. So the cult does not actually function according its own principle, because that would be impossible. Instead, it functions according to an *economy of illusion.* In other words, the better your artwork helps capture and sustain the *illusion of incoherence* for the audience, the more it is celebrated. Naturally, this all flies in the face of the traditional definition of art as a skillfully engineered experience for the purpose of *expressing and eliciting shared emotion.* Shared emotion must by definition be coherent, so subjectivism is almost anti-emotional. That’s why the two systems don’t work very well together most of the time.

[@JapesJasper]

The kanye schizophrenic convo edit was top notch, well done

[@Phaedrus143]

"Meanwhile, guy's over in the next room knocking over buckets of sand getting blown by all the models." 😂

[@Itsatragedeigh]

16:18 i call this “my husband wraps a Christmas gift”

[@Reevesi]

My friend was an artist. We agreed that modern art is "Can you bullshit a story explaining the art". It's all basically bullshit. It can't just be "I was wasted and just chucked some paint on a canvas". It's all "The expression of the conflicted blah blah". Aye

[@BelimaiSykes]

props to the editor for the schizophrenia joke. That had me dying.

[@Nefville]

I was just going to leave that comment, that was great, like Mrs. Lush is just a figment of his imagination.

[@doclewis8927]

The shoe illusion piece and the San Fransico toothpick piece and the shattered glass portriat were the only ones that I'd personally call art but I'm over 50 and my father use to do art all of the time. I have oil paintings of Sitting Bull, an adobe house in the desert, a cave that has "faces" that's only in black & white with some grey wash, and then some ink drawings of farm houses, fences, barns, and windmills with a few cactus and tumbleweeds. I was lucky growing up to be exposed to all kinds of art. My older brother use to draw horses and unicorns for his wife but stopped when they fell out of love. I wish I had kept his art like I have my father's. I also wish they'd both go back to doing their art. They're so good at it. I just write poetry which is a "form" of art I guess but I'd be more impressed if my poetry took me longer than 5 minutes to scribble down. I have tried drawing but my prespective always gets screwy. LOL. To anyone who does art, please stick with it. I know it gets frustrating, especially with the "AI" stuff that's been coming out recently. IF you see your art being used by another, including AI, I'd recommend suing for copyright (trademark or whatever for art) infringement. Find someone whole take your case pro bono or whatever and get your rights to your art back. Also, if you do have art, I'd get it copyrighted or trademarked or registered or whatever you need to do for art to protect it. Look up what your rights are on the federal level and get that covered. I know that as long as you have the original work (for writing) that you have a copyright even if you don't "register" it with the Library of Congress BUT I would recommend getting that copyright or whatever for your art. It's more important nowadays than it was even 10 years ago.

[@NealBurkard-ut1oo]

The glass shatter one seems like a scam to me. The glass was probably designed to fragment in a manner that depicts an image. Doing it live is crucial to the scam

[@amethystleopard]

The hairy cheese fart comment made me crack up, and gag at the same time!

[@acigarbar]

I love art and there were a few pieces throughout this that were really impressive or thought provoking…but most of these just continued to illustrate that some people just have more dollars than sense.

[@TheJestersDoor]

Just an fyi, the banana duct tape story was fake. The artist made up the price to demonstrate how gullible the media is. He even had a guy walk up to the banana and eat it to the reporter's dismay.

[@Bees123Knees]

I'm relieved to hear it. Thanks!

[@AndyDavidson-tg4un]

Yes thank you I just healed.

[@KateCarew]

No. Two versions sold for $120,000 a pop. There’s more to it. A “legit” artist did create the work, and it’s entitled Comedian. And they had certificates of authenticity as well as display instructions like replace banana and duct tape when needed. It’s conceptual, and it’s very real. I’m not going to give any real opinion of it but it may have been a joke in the tongue in cheek sense but two were absolutely sold, and the prices were absolutely that high. The third piece was donated to the Guggenheim. Don’t trust me? Fine. I came back to add this just because it is that absurd but art can be totally insane. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comedian_(artwork)

[@allisoncastle]

Wow, that’s embarrassing…

[@Kwastaken]

Just gonna take this comment at face value and not do any research so I can walk away believing this reality…

[@poesenpai6475]

I love how bro had an entire story to go with the toothpick sculpture.

[@Whateverrrr96]

Fine art: where splattering paint randomly on a canvas can be mistaken for deep intellectual expression. Love it.

[@miscellaneousinterests]

PETITION FOR MRS. LUSH NEW WASHING MACHINE

[@Megan-gd7oh]

I'll sign

[@Mama_Bear524]

Signed

[@downhomesunset]

Signed by 8 family members!

[@LimpPickle.]

No surprise Leon has not liked this comment.

[@Nefville]

signed

[@ralfvandeven3155]

there were a few nice ones. The cracked glas, the surreal painting, the shoe illusion and the tooth pick one. I even liked the washing machine. Seeing the fish on the back put a smile on my face, so I figure it did it's job as art. It also has a surreal aspect to it that I like.

[@pinstripingbybear.]

@6:54 when Leon ask who's the guy? I believe that is Sean Penn that the shoes are made to look like.

[@dirtybird311]

“That cheese looks like my farts smell” is the funniest and most relatable comment I’ve heard today!! 😂😂

[@dimitristsekeris1821]

This video perfectly summarizes art. It ranges from things that are amazing to things that are trash.

[@babylivesmatter3637]

So if I tape a banana to a wall or paint a rock or beat my head on a lump of clay I'll be arrested for forgery....noted!😂

[@RandomBogey]

3:07 I like how his shrug of “well, I guess that’s it, thanks for coming” is the signal to everyone that “it” has happened and everyone can clap because otherwise no one would know what’s part of the bit and what’s not. The white shirt guy in the back got me. As soon as it hits, he goes wide for the clap, but the artist hasn’t thrown the signal yet and he doesn’t want pre-clap, so he awkwardly starts washing his hands until the signal is given and everyone claps. Art.

[@JasonL-hm1mu]

Thank y’all SO much for putting a smile on my face in my last days, your videos makes me forget about the cancer if only for a moment. 🤗

[@LushLifeTV]

Wishing you all the best and sending love ❤️

[@Mama_Bear524]

All the best to you Jason 💕

[@darthdoggy7946]

Another dynamite video from the Lush’s🤯

[@macman1469]

I saw a group of photographs at the art gallery facing the wall . When I asked when the pictures would be turned around . I was told they wouldn't be . As the art was about the reaction to it . I then asked would it be ART if I took a shit on the coffee table as it would definitely get a response and would be spoken about.

[@MrDcohen81]

I tripped out so hard when you took Mrs lush away and talked about schizophrenia 🤣🤣 had to rewind

[@Bees123Knees]

"Dynamite intro, Mrs. Lush!" Hahahahaha!!! Good one. She complements you (and vice versa).

[@dennyspalding8374]

I started watching Leon. When I found out he was doing it with his wife. I was like. " Oh boy. This is gonna suck". Now I just watch the ones with them together. She's very likable

[@birdynumnum6262]

During a class trip to a museum of modern art, I saw a 6' x 6' painted white canvas with a white one once square in the center. I asked my teacher when was the artist supposed to finish his work. “Art is subjective”? So is the satisfaction one may have at taking a dump. Both would be piles of crap.

[@vals_loeder]

A certain level of wealth comes with its own level of mentally unhinged

[@michelehemlokhexwhite4310]

The kinetic sculpture on the beach is wind driven. The artist has an amazing KZbin channel with some incredible, and extremely large, designs. Well worth looking up.

[@julesnakonecznyj6824]

I will analyze one of the artistic projects. The one about the red buckets is more of a representation on how we think everything is structurally stable, But then when things are not everything spills out, reality spills out and the truth spills out. Honestly it's really all on your intention for the project and how you interpret it. That's what makes it true art

[@OmalleyDoc]

Some of these were really sick, the shoes, the toothpicks, I especially loved the glass one. Those types of... destruction art? I dunno, but they're so cool to me. If you liked that one you should look up destructive frame art. It's so simple but it's so cool the level of creativity you can get by just incorporating the actual frame into the art.

[@B3TH_anny]

Mrs Lush's face at 3:08. 😂😂😂 Nice golf clap, Leon.

[@random_dragon]

I took an art history class, and the whole thing with the hairy cheese was that it has something to do with intentionally making you feel a certain way. Surrealists do it a lot, where they'll make something really weird and hard to understanding, but that's kind of the point of it Also, the candy thing has a story behind it. I don't remember the details and might do more research later, but there is an exact amount of candy, and it's ment to represent something about the artist's boyfriend and I think either diabetes or aids

[@Sovereignty420]

The scene at 5:40 felt like the scene from The Big Lebowski with the lady flying through the air and throwing paint wherever she felt like.

[@heathertucker9532]

I absolutely love Mrs. Lushes facial expressions in every video, it is the exact same one I have at these clips 😂

[@terminaldeity]

Leon looking fresh in that bomber jacket!

[@maxcorey8144]

My favorite "art" was a blister pack you might find on the rack in a pet store containing a liquid-filled syringe and it was called DOGGONE, for when you don't want your dog any more.

[@abel6846]

They did a ‘peanut butter’ floor once. Exactly what you think it is, umpty gallons of peanut butter smeared on the floor, in a 20’ by 20’ wooden square. Artist didn’t even do it himself, bunch of art students did the installation. Gotta love it.

[@Sound_Spark]

Art is one of those things where it's either really neat as is shown by 12:33 or just really stupid as is shown by 0:38.

[@NealBurkard-ut1oo]

I have a feeling that the one at 12:33 is a scam. It'd be fairly simple to have the glass designed to fragment un a certain manner

[@kendramiddletonwilliams]

Minute 10:15 art installation of San Francisco’s best spots - incredibly cool.

[@dennislower4742]

Ok, I'll simp. You two are a work of art

[@gablison]

There's an artist who incorporates physical elements into his sketches. He'd have a portrait of a kid holding a torch away from him where the drawn flame is touching the edge of the paper where he'd burn scorch marks onto or have a boxer punch towards you and smash the glass where his fist is or things like that which I think is pretty cool.

[@kiiturii]

that toothpick one was insanely impressive

[@rosesigner]

4:40 Awesome editing! I busted out laughing so hard!

[@Irate_Beau]

when they do it, it's art, BUT WHEN I MAKE HAIRY CHEESE it's "gross" and "moldy" it's so unfair!

[@VoidSC]

Great episode concept. Just showing some support. Love this channel!

[@karmaleenash2841]

Professor Lush presented a very erudite explanation of the metaphor of the jumping artist. Bravo! 💥💥💥

[@reginafromrio]

In college, I was so annoyed by artists because they would always talk about what they were thinking about doing, so pretentious, then come up with a pos. But there was one genius I collaborated with, addicted to heroin, who made the most beautiful art. It goes both ways.

[@burningbarnavit]

5:20 "...changing the face of modern art." Fckn gold lol.

[@joshbarbour6483]

Crap. Mrs. Lush got me to start yawning 🥱

[@withcharmtospare]

11:02 i absolutely love this irl! Ur right it should be bigger lmao. Even tho if you see how many toothpicks it took 😂 how could it be bigger lol

[@EdgeXCrusher]

Leon throwing out verklempt so casually...❤😮. Other than the weekly spelling quiz in 10th grade I don't think ive heard it used since! My guy!

[@StawberryStranger]

I loved this video. Perfect for this SNOWING SUNDAY IN MAY ffs god help me and this weather

[@deshaun_thewise]

What? Where are you?

[@StawberryStranger]

@@deshaun_thewise SLC lol

[@Itsatragedeigh]

7:35 me when i didn’t prepare a presentation and gotta make it up as i go

[@evilgenius3646]

The pile of candy makes me think of that Archer meme "Do you want ants!?"

[@Brandon84J]

13:30 reminds me of Bassnectar videos. I dig it

[@bismarcksandiego6539]

@7:40 that's a japanese ink stick. there is an awesome vid on the tube about how they're made.

[@SapiophileGoddess]

I have a small version of the “walking” mechanism at 14:41. Mine is powered by wind, available on Amazon.

[@austinnsuff6576]

I had a coworker whose favorite word was exquisite. Please start using this word.

[@Reevesi]

My favourite one is an art install in the Tate Modern Gallery (UK). It was a messy bed and Pizza boxes with cigarette ends in it. A cleaner put it all in the trash as thought it was from a party the night before. Apparently It was worth £40k. The cleaner was right imho.

[@KandiStomper]

I've been an artist for over 30 years now (and also an art teacher) and even I don't understand how 90% of these is considered art.

[@KPrent82]

In what world is a banna stuck to the wall with duct tape art?

[@satanmitdengeilenbarthaaren]

Ahh 😊 Reminds me of my fellow German Joseph Beuys.... He was an artist who created a masterpiece of an Installation.... A 10 pound stick of butter in a corner 😂 After his death a Janitor cleaned it.... It was a scandal in my country 😂 and fired up the old debate what defines art....

[@kingofparodies1]

I think the genius to these modern art pieces is that these art pieces are so completely stupid that no one else except this one artist that conjured up such a unique piece with such a unique mind that no other individual could ever think of creating such out of the box works of art

[@scottydoggymama]

Mrs Lush's face watchin the solo cups of sand hahahaha

[@jimholmes692]

I loved the sunglasses... I laughed, I cried...

[@Juliett-Isabella]

I've seen the candy pile and felt real happy to eat an unexpected candy at an exhibition (some pieces of the MOMA were in paris a few years ago)

[@Thatcrimegirl]

I saw an exhibit at the Guggenheim back in 2004 that was literally an empty dark room with a 6 ft x 6ft pile of crushed aspirin with a blue light shining on it.

[@MrCaissed]

6:09 I could watch that and paint dry and grass grow and watching until the pot boils over! Or he’s thinking my grandson can do that everyday x 4 paintings!!! Honey we RICH!!

[@thebigh4752]

Gotta love being early to a Lush Life video.

[@andrewdouris6035]

Changing the face of modern art, literally!

[@barbywithaWHY]

in my home-town here in Massachusetts is a world class contemporary art museum that is one of my favorite places in the world. I try to get to each new major exhibit (there are tons of spaces with permanent collections) but old or new the place always blows my mind!! It makes me angry, it makes me laugh it makes me think and I always go WTF is that??? some so cool and some so dumb.....take a trip out to North Adams! Jackson would love it. I love going there with kids ...their reactions a priceless!! I took my son there when it first opened (he was about 9 or 10 and we were just amazed) He is 35 now and also has a young son named Jackson!! (my grand baby....cant wait to bring him there!!!)

[@mandilynn24]

Whoaaa Maw, look, I can jump and use a marker. 😂😂😂

[@LunaReina14]

i went to college for art and literally if you make something too normal or just nice looking the teachers will find it boring and tell you to do something more like the other people in class

[@reginafromrio]

When I was in college, the janitor left a pile of stuff he swept up in a corner with a broom. People thought it was an art piece.... there you go.

[@skateZY14]

Mrs. lush shirt is Art😍Only reason I watch every video 😂 ( . Y . )

[@summercat__]

I once saw a giant pile of monkey nuts glued together and called art in the Sydney museum of modern art 😑 the door to the gallery had a warning. This exhibition contains peanuts. 😂😂

[@AbeM.]

the one that was just a loosely gift-wrapped canvas was actually really pretty.

[@bucketofampz]

I've did a lil dabbling in the trading of fine art, it's 100% based on the reputation of the artist and 0% on what's the actual piece is

[@loganwilcox4037]

The only thing I love more than modern art is not modern art.

[@BonelessBananaShack]

@13:44 Contemporary - Surrealism is my best guess. 😋

[@Lucenator69]

The one cool shoe artwork depicts Sean Penn ([ think)

[@Bees123Knees]

That's who I saw, too.

[@jessicamillslagle3203]

I follow a lot of art pages. I have seen the glass portrait artist. He is dope! I think the shoe piece was Sean Penn. I would call the mushroom/elephant "surrealism". Abstract art is like Jackson Polick or the Meinel installation. I think yall were talking about Cubism at one point. Picasso's is a good example, in his later work. It was somewhat Abstract. Everything is said in my opinion, not fact. Art is subjective. This is one of my favorite videos of yall. 😊❤