Added: Aug 2, 2007

From: guigal2

Duration: 4:51

For the entire video, please visit this page: http://www.ubu.com/film/mccarthy.html

Channel: Film

Tags: art  experimental  film  mccarthy  paul  performance  video 


Rating: 4.22 (60 ratings)    Views: 34500' favoriteCount='297    Comments: 25

lIlIlIlIlID Says:

Jun 13, 2008 - eggs ackley

sttaffy Says:

Jun 19, 2008 - if anyone does something stupid enough people will look - if he calls himself an artist, and he does stupider shit than other artists, you get people like this guy

justinr714 Says:

Jun 24, 2008 - props paul mcarthy!

DeathSephardi Says:

Jul 10, 2008 - Faved because of godlikeness

TheMiia Says:

Jul 21, 2008 - Its like watching a semi retarded child who has been left alone. What a f*cking headache. Next time someone can just plow me in the head with a 2x4 and call that art.

sacrificaltotem Says:

Jul 21, 2008 - i love this guy

jona2286 Says:

Jul 24, 2008 - I love his hands... Finally he's very metaphoric

ead1529 Says:

Aug 10, 2008 - This is a terrific satire on the Art world. Especially more so with the seriousness of expressionist painters. But, you guys have to see the scene with the art dealer in order to really get the point of this video.

raunchbear Says:

Aug 12, 2008 - Splended, bravo. I particularly love how he represents intangibility over an abstract mind

LockedPig Says:

Aug 12, 2008 - it's not art :/

sacrificaltotem Says:

Aug 14, 2008 - man i have watched this like 150 times in a row its truly amazing and really speaks to me

persebela Says:

Aug 19, 2008 - I've seen this video before in the Hugh Lane Gallery (Dublin) and I loved it, much to the confusion of the people I was with (we were there as part of a course not by choice). My first introduction to Mr McCarthy was a bronze version of 'Santa with a Buttplug' outside the Boijmanns Van Beuningen gallery in Rotterdam. Haha, I love it!

shaymultimedia Says:

Aug 22, 2008 - pants.

android90beats Says:

Aug 25, 2008 - who says its not art? the public, art critics or you? if it is your opinion, what do you base your opinion on? I'll assume that "art," for you has to be say, beautiful or something like that. Well if all art is beautiful then, it limits itself to what it can talk about. It can only be about beautiful things. Art is a view on life, and life is quite ugly sometimes. So "ugly," things, can still be artistic in nature and vice versa.

paulfuguet Says:

Aug 31, 2008 - sarcastic and twisted amazing way to see the white canvas!!!!!

BrunoHockaLoogie Says:

Sep 3, 2008 - I believe the greatest gift I can give to anybody is my silence and my four most cherished proverbs are; If one plants poison ivy, one does not get to pick strawberries, what you think of me is none of my business, we may not always get what we want but we always get what we expect and, we cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails. I do my best to live by The Golden Rule.

abeferraro Says:

Sep 10, 2008 - android90beats...good points! That is a much more graspable idea for the non-Artist than the Art Historical model citing DuChamp...Artist declares it to be Art. I will have to try that arguement out sometime.

android90beats Says:

Sep 11, 2008 - i think sometimes "art," is its own worst enemy in terms of its name ( A - R - T ) this is art! bow down before me!!!!/ or maybe in this case, MY AESTHETIC IS BEYOND YOUR SENSIBILITY. Also i think people have preconceptions of it performing for an idealistic outdated notion of beauty or expression. oh its symbolises his inner turmoil - yadda yadda, whatever. if we break it down with an open mind, unpretentiously, then it becomes alot more relevant/valid. or then again thats just an opinion ;)

mithria Says:

Sep 12, 2008 - è una gran schifezza sta cosa. Arte? arte è il mio pugno che gli sfonda il cranio.

beachbongbabes Says:

Sep 25, 2008 - love you paul. the best teacher a student could ask 4. a day dosent go by that i dont think about you.

MIDJOBZ Says:

Oct 8, 2008 - imagine having sex with this guy? Id rather eat shit.

GreyGhostSr Says:

Oct 10, 2008 - Buttplug? Whatever your opinion of Paul McCarthy, one cannot avoid the fact that his work makes an overwhelming impression. People who are faced with it for the first time probably react with a mixture of horror, curiosity and disdain, but the attentive reviewer will not miss its humor and penetration. He is one of a generation of artists who react to the Minamal Art and Conceptual Art of the sixties by restoring the link between artistic activity and harsh reality. + McCarthy is slightly insane

LJD25 Says:

Oct 20, 2008 - Over-rated shit by a hack artist. But with Hauser & Wirth, you must be promoted endlessly.

tlkSmack1 Says:

Nov 25, 2008 - What's that supposed to mean?

floserber Says:

Dec 1, 2008 - peinturlure!