If one duct tapes a banana to a board, and someone eats this piece of modern art, costing more than we earn in a few years, has one destroyed “art”? It could be argued that the act of eating the banana actually improved things, and putting the peel back after consumption, made the art work, so-called, a little better. Maybe it would be rated at 0.01 out of 10 now.
It has long been lamented that modernist art is little more than a deconstruction of the great art of Western civilisation. The decadence has been going on since the early part of the 20th century, and is just part of the general decline of the West. Put it like this: I have no artistic talent at all, but I could produce modern art as good as this. Therefore, modern art is absolute trash.
https://artabys.com/why-is-modern-art-absolute-trash/
“A student who ate a $120,000 artwork consisting of a banana taped to a wall said he was hungry after skipping breakfast.
Comedian, by Maurizio Cattelan, was on display in Seoul’s Leeum Museum of Art as part of an exhibition by the Italian artist.
Noh Huyn-soo, a college student from Seoul National University, took the banana off the wall and ate it before reattaching the peel to the wall using the same tape.
Asked by museum authorities about his actions, he said he had skipped breakfast and was hungry.
Later, in an interview with local broadcaster KBS, the student said that “damaging a work of modern art could also be (interpreted as a kind of) artwork.”
“Isn’t it taped there to be eaten?”
The fruit is replaced every two to three days on the direction of Mr Cattelan, who reportedly said there was “no problem at all” over the incident.
The artwork has been eaten before. In 2019, performance artist David Datuna ate the banana after Comedian sold for $120,000 (£95,600) at Art Basel in Miami.
He later used Instagram to talk about the incident.”