The "walking" displays on o'connell st

faceman

Anyone know what those 4 displays of male walking and female walking on o'connell st are all about? They look awful.

IanCurtis

typical irish response to a piece of art on our streets :rolleyes:

faceman

a) how do you know im irish?
b) how is one supposed to know said objects are art or what they represent?

:rolleyes:

I am pie

I likes em. I hope they stay...great seeing peoples confused reactions to them.

paulusdu

I gotta say im a fan of them, something completely different, love the way the lady walks too :-)
not sure how long they are goign to stay for, but I hope its for a good while et.

TEDDYBEAR90

No idea why they put them up, completely pointless if you ask me

faceman

If it is art as some of you have put it, i dont really see how it adds anything to the street or cultural values.

Jay D

well I have to say I think they're nice, wtf were them Norsk things about last year, Janieeeeeeeeeeeeee Mack!!

I am pie

Art schmart...not fussed on anyone's definition of what comes under that particularly wide umbrella. They provoke a reaction, the very fact the people question why they are there and what they stand for is interesting enough for me. The more extreme the reaction, the more I like it.

Of course, it's all subjective and that's just my opinion. I think they help give a contemporary feel, alongside the spire, to the street, particularly at night.

IanCurtis

faceman wrote: »

If it is art as some of you have put it, i dont really see how it adds anything to the street or cultural values.

Well since you seem to know nothing about art, maybe you should just leave it be.

Next you'll be walking into the concert hall and saying
"I hate this classical music sh1t!"

lightening

I'm with I am a pie. They are very cool.

Goodshape

They're part of an exhibition being held in the Hugh Lane gallery.

http://www.hughlane.ie/exhibitions/exhibc.asp (scroll down, it's the second listing).

Like the bronze hares that were on display last summer.

DublinWriter

faceman wrote: »

Anyone know what those 4 displays of male walking and female walking on o'connell st are all about?

A surplus of Lotto money.

Nolanger

The female art exhibit is too flat-chested.

January

They are there till November... Celebrating Hugh Lane Gallery's Anniversary.

BendiBus

I think they look great.

simona

the art's purpose is for you to question it! if you ask what did that mean,obviously piece of art did its work.
my suggestion is that these people are going on a date.you know the spire is supposed to be dating place for lovers.But that's only MY crazy :eek: idea

Peteer

http://www.julianopie.com/

For more info!

jdivision

I've said it before but I wish they had bought the hares that they put on display last year. I think nearly everybody liked them.

Esel

Mr.S wrote: »

i think their amusing, especially when drunk.

They get drunk?

Jay D

jdivision wrote: »

I've said it before but I wish they had bought the hares that they put on display last year. I think nearly everybody liked them.

they were crap looking. You are the first person I have heard likes them.

arybvtcw0eolkf

The hares were brilliant, hardly hard a bad word about them.

I'd have liked to have seen those stay.

Jay D

I wish I was a dictator, I would feed you two to a pack of rabbits now for liking them

Dirk Gently

Don't dis the kung fu hares! I want one for my garden. I was sad to see them go tbh.

I hardly give the digital people a second glance tbh but the displays don't evoke any negative emotion from me. I think the souless 1 dimentional element to them fits in nicely with O'connell street tbh. I kinda like the fact that it's usually just me and the stick people who walk the centre island as the masses shove each other in an effort to walk down the packed pavements on either side. The fact that they're being talked about is a good thing though so they serve their purpose without being intrusive. Art only exists in the individuals mind so the whole is it art question is irrelevant.

jdivision

Jay D wrote: »

they were crap looking. You are the first person I have heard likes them.

No, think you'll find most people did.

Poxyshamrock

I loved the hares!
Terribly sad to see them go!
Great Quality sculptures! Loved the anvil one

faceman

IanCurtis wrote: »

Well since you seem to know nothing about art, maybe you should just leave it be.

Next you'll be walking into the concert hall and saying
"I hate this classical music sh1t!"

What an idiotic comment.

IanCurtis

faceman wrote: »

What an idiotic comment.

True though.

ozchick

faceman wrote: »

a) how do you know im irish?
b) how is one supposed to know said objects are art or what they represent?

:rolleyes:

Isn't art all in how you interpret it? I must go check em out

thehomeofDob

They have no feet!!! :eek: WTF is with the lack of feet?

Jay D

thehomeofDob wrote: »

They have no feet!!! :eek: WTF is with the lack of feet?

never mind their floating heads

TheIrishGrover

IanCurtis wrote: »

Well since you seem to know nothing about art, maybe you should just leave it be.

Next you'll be walking into the concert hall and saying
"I hate this classical music sh1t!"

That is a pretty moronic comment. Surely the point, as someone else put it, is that art triggers conversations/opinions. Faceman doesn't like it and voiced his opinion on the display, you may like it but voiced your opinion by determining that because faceman disagrees with you that he has no appreciation of art? I suspect that your comments were just to stir sh!t since I find it difficult to believe that anyone could be that narrow-minded and egotistical but still a moronic comment.

walrusgumble

always feel like doing the monthy pyton funny walk when i see the displays. weird i know. ah its kinda cool. wonder would the lads from "i dare ya" have any good sketches for them?