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the best part about it is that the art installation isn’t actually called the Bean. It’s called Cloud Gate, and artist Anish Kapoor (yes, THAT Anish Kapoor) hates that we call it the Bean.
But i mean, look at it. It’s a bean.
How could you forget this one though
I HAD NO FUCKING IDEA THAT THE BEAN WAS CREATED BY ANISH KAPOOR.
someone help me why is anish kapoor important what did he do?
Alright sit down for some Art World Drama bcause this is what I live for.
So, sometime last year (?) science invented Vantablack, which is the darkest possible shade of black. Art world got incredibly excited. But as it needs to be very carefully made in a lab, it’s hard to get a hold of, and is extremely expensive. Enter Anish Kapoor, aka FuckFace McGee. Anish Kapoor buys the rights to Vantablack. He is the only human being on the planet that can legally use it, and he’s kind of a prick about it.
Art world is not thrilled with that.
Enter Stuart Semple.
Stuart Semple is an artist, and also makes pigments to sell in his free time. Stuart Semple is astoundingly pissed about this Vantablack nonsense, and Anish Kapoor’s dickery. Stuart Semple makes a new pigment, the brightest shade of pink ever, called Pinkest Pink, and puts it for sale on the internet. To be bought by everybody except Anish Kapoor. Literally, to purchase, you need to confirm that you are not Anish Kapoor, do not associate with him, and will not sell or give the pigment to Anish Kapoor or his associates. Art world has a good laugh, everyone buys Pinkest Pink because it’s awesome, and damn it we deserve something.
Anish Kapoor however is a penis, and will not take this lying down, because HOW DARE he not have literally everything.
Anish Kapoor gets his London associates to buy him a thing of Pinkest Pink, and being such a classy human being, posts a picture to instagram of him with his middle finger covered in Pinkest Pink, captioned with “Up yours. #pink”
Everyone flips shit, because. Y’know. Fuck that guy. Especially Stuart Semple. For context here, Anish Kapoor is one of the richest artists on the planet, and has repeatedly been referred to as everything wrong with the art world, and the epitome of the art worlds elitism problem. He’s a giant douchebag. Meanwhile Stuart Semple makes pigments just to get them out there. He turns 0 profit from his now enourmously popular pigments.
Stuart Semple launches an investigation as to who the fuck leaked Pinkest Pink, and plans to strike back. He does so by releasing two new products. First is Diamond Dust, which is a glitter made from glass, so that a painting is still visible after it’s applied, but glitters like a mofo. It’s the most reflective glitter out there, and is available to everyone who isn’t Anish Kapoor. And it being made of glass, if you stick your finger in there, it’s going to hurt quite a bit, so that was Stuart Semple’s way of saying “shove your middle finger in this, asshole, see what happens”. Except without saying that, because he can get an insult across while still being fucking classy.
He also releases Black 2.0, created with the help of over a thousand artists worldwide.
Black 2.0 is the answer to Vantablack. Black 2.0 is a slightly less black black, but looks functionally the same to the human eye. It’s completely safe, smells like cherries, and costs four pounds. Vantablack is highly toxic, potentially explosive, needs to be applied in a special laboratory and sealed properly, can’t be moved across borders, can reach 300 degrees celsius if you’re not extremely careful, and costs thousands of dollars. Anish Kapoor is the only human being who can use Vantablack. He is the only human being who cannot use Black 2.0.
So I think we can guess who got the better deal.
And thus the feud ends, Kapoor defeated.
…But not quite.
Kapoor, in this entire afair, has made exactly two comments to the public. The first being his charming message about aquiring Pinkest Pink, the second being claiming to Buzzfeed that he and his small army of lawyers will be suing Semple, an extremely poor artist who cannot afford a lawyer.
No lawsuit has been made yet, fyi.
The point is, Kapoor is a prick, and doesn’t like talking to the lower classes. So one day in July 2017, he decides he needs another floor on his London studio apartment, and starts making arrangements to have it built. His neighbors are fucking pissed, because this will ruin the light of their apartments. They call to Semple to save them, or at the very least piss Kapoor off some more.
Semple answers to the call, and releases two new paints, Phaze and Shift, as always, banned to Kapoor. They change colours, Phaze with temperature, and Shift is just iridescent. Shift needs to be painted over Black 2.0 to work, and Phaze just works on its own.
So that’s been the art world for the last two years.
Basically, get fucked Anish Kapoor your bean sucks and so does your vantablack.
Reblogging for “By attending this event you confirm that you are not Anish Kapoor, you are in no way affiliated with Anish Kapoor, you are not attending on behalf of Anish Kapoor or an associate of Anish Kapoor. To the best of your knowledge, information, and belief this event will not be attended by Anish Kapoor.”
ALSO HE JUST POSTED THIS!!!!!! LIGHTEST LIGHT!
I know this isn’t my art blog but this entire post gives me life
@kirkmaynardart the world of art supplies is so dramátic, I love it 😂😂
Art world beef is the best kind 😂
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You know, there’s this pattern I’m noticing in the fandom’s commentary on Stranded. They tend to forget that in this show, Every Character is 3-Dimensional, and Not Defined by One Singular Scene. And knowing Crewniverse, this is absolutely going to include Pink Diamond.
I get the whole “whiny flat-out Demanding Desire makes her sound like A Brat”. And it looks like she’s punching a window because she didn’t get her way.
But…. Think about it. She’s acting entitled. I wouldn’t say “spoiled” (which comes from getting everything you want, so you expect it), but she’s probably made to expect greatness.
Gems are born just knowing everything they’re supposed to do. Well, a Diamond is supposed to be a leader.
An army has a use, they can go and fight a war.
A Sappphire has a use, she can tell you what it’s for.
An Agate terrifies, a Lapis terraforms.Where’s their Diamond when they need her, Blue?
You’ve got to be a leader, Blue!
And this Diamond–Pink Diamond (made to be a leader)– she’s not getting that.
Are the Diamonds not “made” to Demand?
Isn’t it her responsibility to WANT to fulfill her role?
Isn’t that completely EXPECTED of her, as a Diamond?
Am I the only one who looks at her and sees a WORLD of potential, because every great leader in the history of the world had ONE common trait: Ambition.
And leaders don’t always know what to DO with that ambition, but it’s ingrained in the core of our being, and ALL we want is to reach HIGHER. To ACHIEVE. To FULFILL our potential!
(Impatience is the natural byproduct of that; patience has to be TAUGHT.)
** By the way, none of this has anything to do with age, and everything to do with MATURITY and EXPERIENCE. (Which, some people over the age of 40 still don’t have, let’s be real. Maturity has nothing to do with ~quantity~ of time, and everything to do with quality time spent BEING TAUGHT. The key really is mentorship, but that’s a whole separate dissertation on its own.)
Anyways, my point is, Pink Diamond’s not just a brat. It was a cute joke the first couple times, but seeing everybody condescend on her for that is getting old already.
Maybe it’s just that I grew up as the oldest of 4, with one older brother I rarely saw, who always got special treatment because he was “the oldest” to keep me from being the Bossy Big Sibling. Maybe it’s my time with the leadership and mentoring organization teaching me to see the qualities of leadership in someone, and look beyond those emotional reactions and see the underpinnings of greatness. Maybe I’m just sympathetic to her because I used to be a lot like that, and I was abused for speaking out and saying that I deserved better, so I know what it feels like to be told “you’ll get it when you act like you deserve it”, when I didn’t know what that WAS. And maybe I’m just a leader stifled by finances, so like: Pink, buddy, I’m there.
But all personal involvement aside, there’s a lot more to this sequence than Pink not getting what she wants.
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