Worm Art?!

[Miss Cassandra]

I thought this was odd, I had to post it
http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/ver/242...php?cl=4171239

What is wrong with this guy?
I gotta give him props though - thats pretty creative.

[Nautipus]

Holy Cow! That was a weird little clip. Although creative, that guy seems to have a connection with his worms.
The guy that was hosting the show was looking at the worm-man like "YOU ARE A FREAK."
Then he was eating spaghetti next to one of the paintings and slurping, and i was like "Oh, unnecesary, you're a freak too."

[Miss Cassandra]

Originally Posted by Nautipus

Holy Cow! That was a weird little clip. Although creative, that guy seems to have a connection with his worms.

I know- that guy is nuts!
He wants to help them... Help the worms leave their mark, before they go.
Freggin weirdo

Save the worms- by smothering them in paint

I just dont know about art anymore I guess...

[Nautipus]

Imagine what the worm is thinking.
First, he put into a verritable worm-orgy inside this tiny can of bait, then he's in this tiny cramped space for a bumpy ride to the guy's house, then he's roughly rolled around is some crap that tastes just terrible, then he tries to find a place to hide, but he keeps getting plucked up and moved to a new place, then he's dumped unceremoniously into the yard.
Save the worms my a**...

[BeardofPants]

Someone recently did it with maggots, I read recently. I thought it was rather a good idea (they were running a class to educate kids about insects). It's good to de-mystify the insect world, and learn that they perform a valid function in our ecosystem.

Here's the link: http://www.maggotart.com/

[Miss Cassandra]

I think thats really weird, I mean, Its good to teach people about other things, but dont make a profit from sliming them around! geez. It might be original but there are better ways to spread your artistic view on canvas.

I still think that guy is nuts...

Besides, I learned about all kinds of things by dissecting them in school

[suncrafter]

I did that in my art class with red and black ink. However, most of my worms died.

[Miss Cassandra]

I don't like worms, but you made that sound sad...

[Lotesse]

It did sound sad, I was thinking the same thing when I read that! poor little worms... My Dad has a big earthworm farm where he feeds them tasty compost and they give him super-rich soil. Earthworms are awesome, totally harmless, clean, uncomplicated little creatures who keep the soil rich and fertile, and feed the birds. What's not to like? I don't like this idea of exploiting earthworms to use as a novelty art project, though. I think that's kind of messed up. I don't find it in one bit artisticly original.

This story reminds me of Andy Warhol's brother, I can't remember his name, he's this crazy loner who lives up in Pittsburgh somewhere, anyway - he gets his chickens to walk around in paint then walk all over canvas on the floor, and calls it art. That's not a bad idea, I guess, and the chicken's dont seem to mind and aren't being hurt or killed for their services, like the earthworms.

[Miss Cassandra]

Originally Posted by Lotesse

I don't like this idea of exploiting earthworms to use as a novelty art project, though. I think that's kind of messed up. I don't find it in one bit artisticly original.

+1 Lotesse
I think the same thing, and as an abstract mogul, I love the art, I just don't see the challenge in letting something make your art for you.

[Lotesse]

Not that way, anyhow, not at the expense of little creatures' lives. But human beings who can accept direction as in actors being directed and they create a work of art which is a film, you know, collaboration like that to make art, well that's different.

But I got to thinking back on that Warhol brother, and so I looked it up and found the chicken-feet painting story. Here, it's a cool story:





Date: Wed, 6 Nov 91 10:06:48 PST
From: one of our correspondents
Subject: Warhol Brother Gets 15 Minutes
To: yucks-request

HAGERSTOWN, Md. (AP)
Andy Warhol's brother has earned his 15 minutes of fame by
painting critically acclaimed canvases with chicken's feet.

Paul Warhola's colorfully daubed panels of three-toed footprints
are on display here at the Washington County Museum of Fine Arts.

Warhola his more famous brother, who died in 1987, dropped the
last vowel from his name is a retired scrap metal operator who lives
on a farm in Smock, Pa., surrounded by geese, ducks, cats, a dog and
at least 150 chickens.

Warhola, 69, said his chicken-scratch art began as an accident
when he was painting outdoors one day.

"I was called to the phone and when I came back, my chickens had
gotten in my paint and this is what they created," he said. "From
then on, I used it as a trademark."

Warhola said that at first he let the chickens prance around on
the canvas but later to gain more control began using chicken and
duck feet as his paintbrushes. He doesn't kill his own fowl; he gets
the feet from someone else.

The show, which closes Nov. 24, includes chicken-scratch panels in
blues, greens, yellows, purples and reds. A silk-screen photograph of
him and his brother as teen-agers is marked by a chicken foot dipped
in bright green paint.

The show also includes works by Warhola's son, James, an artist
and illustrator from New York.

Museum director Jean Woods said the elder Warhola's pop art is a
toned-down version of his brother's.

"The pop before was a blaze across the art scene at the time," Ms.
Woods said. The new pop art "is not so brazen. It's a softer, gentler
type of pop art like we're seeing in our politics."

Visitors to the museum saw similarities between the brothers' work
and said Warhola's would stand the test of time.

"It's amazing how strong the design element is," said Franz Lion,
an interior decorator from Pittsburgh. "It's the combination of
colors the tension between the colors. It creates a stimulation for
the eye. It's amazing that these are chicken feet."

Lance Davis, 21, a design major at Frostburg State University,
said both brothers use repetition, bright colors and commercial
images.

While Warhol made the Campbell soup can famous, his brother has
created images of Heinz bean cans and ketchup bottles.

"My uncle liked the jet set, high life rubbing shoulders with all
kinds of people," said James Warhola, 36. "My dad came from a
blue-collar family. He's living on a farm now. He's really down to
earth."

"But they both have these similarities. They both love attention
and the way they get ideas is the same," he said.

Warhola said he wasn't interested in the kind of fame that his
brother once predicted would belong to everyone for 15 minutes.

"I'm not looking for a lot of publicity," he said. "They want me
to be all over the place, but I'm not into that. At my age, I don't
need that."