Now THAT rock I definitely like!! :)

The chair looks a little cold though... but if I was looking for something difficult to nod off in, I expect it would be ideal :)

He who wrote the article said it was uncomfortable but very nice.

Many here have those rocks in their gardens as art. (Or too heavy to move)
The forest is what we call the Troll Forest.
If you are lucky you can meet trolls around such a rock. They are usually there.

The Princess and the Trolls by John Bauer. (Look. A rock in the painting)

Sorry moving a 340 ton rock from 1 place to another at a huge cost !.

WASTE FULL

A rock is still a rock no matter where you put it . It's only the arty farty types that see it as anything and they just go with what others say it's called being a sheep .

The painting of a rock is art .

The national monument of the president is art

Blue Polls is art but not the price that is just a rip off and rubbish art a 5yr old could do it with a big strong fan

It's like the cost of 2 match sticks outside the Sydney Art Gallery a waste of money and gets very old to look at after a while , 1 mach is harf burnt the other is not what the hell it is supposed to represent ??

How about how to rip big money out off silly ppl

That what i think of so called ART

Most art is useful, and it could therefore be argued a wast of money and resources. However, a world without art and beauty would indeed be a bleak place.

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Most art is useful, and it could therefore be argued a wast of money and resources. However, a world without art and beauty would indeed be a bleak place.

Indeed. No Music, No films, No books. In short no fun.

About the trolls. I find the correct name of title 'Princess and Troll Brothers'
And the text from a childrens book 'Among Gnomes and Trolls' the artist illustrated.
"Look at them," urged the troll mother. "Look at
my sons. Handsomer trolls can't be found this side
of the moon. But then of course, they take after their mother."

Here is my view of Art. It comes from the heart.
Friends took me out to dinner and the restaurant was also a Gallery for local artists. I was looking for mashed potatoes and found Art.
Upon mentioning how facinated this piece of Art was to me and why I liked it. I couldn't say it at the time.
It just spoke to me and still does.

Did the moved Rock speak to me NO, painted cows in Hamburg NO, the blue thing at Trasnfalgar Square NO etc pp

Hate or leave it, but don't diss us for what we like in our hearts.

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yep you are right John ( looked up your name and it comes from the English word John )hehehehe It's a 4d building in a 3 d world a hypercube and was designed as a hypercube to show what a 4 d object would look like in a 3 d world

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Just in case any one was wondering exactly what "the blue thing in Trafalgar Square" was, well it was a chicken.



Well actually a cockerel on the "spare plinth" in the square.

Is a 4.72 meter tall blue glass fiber cockerel art?

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A blue chicken in Trafalgar Square? Ive been there. Have you Brits lost your mind? As a veteran myself I felt that homage was being paid to a great naval hero.
And now it also the home of a freaking blue chicken? And you have the nerve to chastize Americans over a rock?
Whats next? A staue of Bozo the Clown in front of No. 10 Downing Street? Oh wait he lives there:)

All kidding aside, Art is what moves you. There are some things that I really like that my wife thinks are wierd. But that works both ways.
As the saying goes one mans art is another mans junk. Which is why people find art worth big bucks at garage sales every once in a blue moon.

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A blue chicken in Trafalgar Square? Ive been there. Have you Brits lost your mind? As a veteran myself I felt that homage was being paid to a great naval hero.
And now it also the home of a freaking blue chicken? And you have the nerve to chastize Americans over a rock?
Whats next? A staue of Bozo the Clown in front of No. 10 Downing Street? Oh wait he lives there:)

All kidding aside, Art is what moves you. There are some things that I really like that my wife thinks are wierd. But that works both ways.
As the saying goes one mans art is another mans junk. Which is why people find art worth big bucks at garage sales every once in a blue moon.

I have also been there. I Think it is a wrong idea to put it there.
One might Think they compare Admiral Nelson with a chicken.
Lots of pigeons on Trafalgar Square. I had a white shirt on and guess what happened?

bird Skit on you ...hehehehe

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Thank you Bernie.
I love the colour.
Just not from the heart.

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Just in case any one was wondering exactly what "the blue thing in Trafalgar Square" was, well it was a chicken.

Well, you can thank your lucky stars that Labour or the Lib dems didn't have the majority last time around...

...just think...

A Red chicken....or worse...

A Yellow Chicken!

Just in case any one was wondering exactly what "the blue thing in Trafalgar Square" was, well it was a chicken.

Well, you can thank your lucky stars that Labour or the Lib dems didn't have the majority last time around...
...just think...
A Red chicken....or worse...
A Yellow Chicken!

To me it's look like a rooster.
Stayed at a farm some summers when i was a kid.

The color seems to me be a problem with all these pidgeon around.
A lighter color would be better.

Blue Chicken in Trafalgar Square

There is a plinth at each of the four corners of the square. The two southern plinths carry sculptures of Henry Havelock and Charles James Napier. The northern plinths are larger than those as they were designed to have equestrian statues, and indeed the northeastern plinth has one of George IV. The history of the fourth vacant plinth in Trafalgar Square is that it was originally intended to hold an equestrian statue of William IV, but remained bare due to insufficient funds.

For over 150 years the fate of the plinth was debated; in 1999, a sequence of three contemporary artworks to be displayed on the plinth were announced. The success of this initiative led to a commission being formed to decide on a use for the plinth. Eventually that commission unanimously decided to continue using it for the temporary display of artworks.

In my view the use of the fourth plinth in this way is nothing less than a public scandal, and desecrates a British and Internationally famous landmark. I helped to host a close friend of mine in London earlier this year, and quite frankly I was embarrassed to take them there.

I think they should replace it with a Guillotine.

The Fourth Plinth Programme is the most talked about contemporary art prize in the UK. Funded by the Mayor of London, the programme invites world class artists to make "astonishing" new works for the centre of the capital city

Ah well there we go, "Bonkers Boris" at it again. World Class artists??? A blue plastic chicken is world class art??? "astonishing" yes it is, because they are allowed to get away with it! I know who is taking this piss out of whom, and I suspect most of the public do as well.

There are far too many avant garde artists in this world whose only aim is to shock and be controversial. They haven't got a shred of real art in their little toes. Yet they make a living from it. It's high time the public fought back. Yes of course the world would be a bleaker place without art, but let's have real art not all this pseudo namby pamby luvvie stuff!

Its a pretty good representation of a chicken. I'd like to see your attempt. I know I would struggle creating something that looked like a chicken.

Will you post a picture of your chicken sculpture so I can compare your skills with those of the person with no shred of real art in their toes. You being the expert and all.

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It's a 4d building in a 3 d world a hypercube and was designed as a hypercube to show what a 4 d object would look like in a 3 d world

Confused? We all are. We cant see 4D objects but we can see projections of them in 3D. Just as you can draw a cube (3D) on a paper (2D).
Here is a projection of tessaract. (Actually a projection of a projection')

Now we all knows that a cube have 8 corners.
A 4D 'cube' have 16 corners. A 5D(!) 'cube' have 32 corners. Guess what a 6D 'cube' have?
Isn't math and art wonderful?

Now lets rotate the tessaract.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-WyreE9ZkI

That object is just a shadow of it's real self......

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I'd rather have a blue chicken on a plinth then the plethora of statues of dead warmongering white men on horseback (or not) that litter London.

I like the rock better than the blue chicken, at least it is natural.

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I agree with Chris wrong place to put it now maybe if they move it to say the front gates awww i don't know say the House of Commons then i would call it Art but not where it is a bit disrespectful to Nelson i think

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That object is just a shadow of it's real self......

Groan. Very punny.

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