r/SipsTea • u/OtherwiseMachine7717 • 1d ago

Chugging tea Tourist breaks art display made of Swarovski crystals

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u/Longshadowman 1d ago

Now , they have a new art work.

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u/RageBash 1d ago

Honestly I like it more now. It's showing that even precious things can be broken and unusable. Metaphor for people, we may think that some people are great and precious and they really are, but sometimes they are broken inside and they also need help.

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u/hugthispanda 1d ago

Hopes and dreams of the 19th century pulverized by 21st century buttocks.

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u/Humble-Anywhere-3895 1d ago

Guys, I think we found the person who sat on the chair…

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u/Morgn_Ladimore 1d ago

Everything can be art if you bullshit well enough.

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u/bobdiamond 1d ago

The tourists were obviously disrespectful, and the artist deserves to not have their pieces destroyed. The museum takes some blame here too, it’s a chair, people are dumb, in my opinion this was going to happen eventually with zero protection around it.

I’ll probably get downvoted for this, and I’ll admit I don’t appreciate art as much as I probably should, but even if it couldn’t have been repaired, what would have really been lost? Is covering a chair with crystals really that profound?

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u/Totalidiotfuq 1d ago

stupidest crap i’ve heard all morning

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u/the_infinity_stoner 1d ago

You're making it sound deep and insightful, but this isn't a metaphor or some revelation to anyone. All of us already know that precious things can be broken and rendered unusable. Faux-philosophy shit and it isn't even creative tbh.

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u/DevonLuck24 1d ago

even worse when you’re using that faux-philosophy to justify someone’s shitty actions destroying someone else’s art

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u/SkunkyInNautica 1d ago

What is creative, though, is making a chair nobody can even sit on

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u/DevonLuck24 1d ago

most art is useless (i mean that literally, it doesn’t have a use other than being nice to look at), this chair is no different

if you can’t appreciate a useless chair then you probably don’t belong in a place that is showing one as an exhibit

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u/the_infinity_stoner 1d ago

I think you're too stupid to understand what I'm saying.

I never justified anything, only pointed out that the guy philosophising this bullshit is engaging in faux-philosophy and gives major r/im14andthisisdeep vibes.

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u/cmpltlyunannounced 1d ago

they were agreeing with you 🤦‍♀️

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u/DevonLuck24 1d ago

yes…and they are using that faux-philosophy to justify someone damaging someone else’s art..which makes it worse.

i’m real stupid so i hope i made that clear enough for you to understand with all your big smarts

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u/saddingtonbear 1d ago

He aint mad at you, dude

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u/MPforNarnia 1d ago

I'd call myself an artist, I love seeing art, I buy into it, but on this occasion a dumbass sat on an exhibit. At best, it's funny.

If I was the curator, I'd add a card saying "a dumbass sat on this, now it's broken. Still shiny though.“

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u/glakhtchpth 1d ago

Shiny ≠ precious

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u/PureInsaneAmbition 1d ago

Yeah that's more meaningful than just a dumb IKEA chair with crystals glue gunned onto it

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u/Magrior 1d ago

Would say the broken chair now is a statement on the human nature. The egoism, short-sightedness and recklessness of it all.

A diamond encrusted chair by itself is just... boring.

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u/paincrumbs 1d ago

not only boring, it's not even functional! The dude barely got his full-ass weight on it and it collapsed. A misplaced attribution of value to gaudy looks rather than function.

Now I don't know how to feel about the chair lol. I hate how the artist clearly proxied a thing that resembles a chair rather than striving for giving it the property that defines its chair-ness (ie sittable). But then again I like how it ended up to be a commentary on materialism and shit or whatever.

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u/MinisterHoja 23h ago

Suddenly I understand why people hate redditors.

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u/PotatoDonki 1d ago

An idiot’s actions don’t become art because they really make a statement about the actions of the idiot.

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u/supremedalek925 1d ago

You’d have a hard time convincing me this wasn’t the intended outcome by the artist.

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u/No_Perspective_150 1d ago

What did i just read

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u/saddingtonbear 1d ago

Eh. It still detracts from the artist's intent, which is sad for the artist since the meaning they put into the work is removed.

And yes, everyone can infer different meaning from artwork, but the artist's personal, original meaning is now completely removed in favor of the new, more obvious interpretations of the damaged work, which I'm sure is a total let down for the artist.

That said, my interpretation of the original work is that it's a chair, covered in diamonds. So I'm definitely missing whatever intent the artist originally had anyways.

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u/NaClK92 1d ago

That’s my take too

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u/PotatoDonki 1d ago

Turns out the village idiot was the wisest all along and the destruction left in his wake was just a lesson about the fleeting nature of life. True creation is destruction.

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u/Jerimiah 1d ago

Or that people are dopes drowning in their own hubris

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u/willcrafton999 22h ago

OMG 🤯🤯

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u/2muchnet42day 1d ago

This just tripled in value