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is because capitalist interests in the art world are threatened by communist and socialist ideas present in the majority of artists.
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why is he a capitalist
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c_man posted:

why is he a capitalist



He's a multimillionaire that employs teams of workers to create "his" art to whom he gives no credit and most likely pays extremely poorly while he accumulates piles of money from their work.

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is this a criticism of Ai Weiwei or of a "the art world"
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RBC posted:

He's a multimillionaire that employs teams of workers to create "his" art to whom he gives no credit and most likely pays extremely poorly while he accumulates piles of money from their work.



if you had more info about that i'd be interested in reading about it. i personally think people like him because a lot of his stuff is kinda juvenile and has a target that is pretty "safe" in the minds of western liberals. if you asked most people if who like him on facebook or whatever i dont think they would know that he has money or anything.

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tpaine posted:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paintings_by_Adolf_Hitler



my bad i forgot to quote the right post

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roseweird posted:

RBC posted:

c_man posted:

why is he a capitalist

He's a multimillionaire that employs teams of workers to create "his" art to whom he gives no credit and most likely pays extremely poorly while he accumulates piles of money from their work.

perhaps that act is itself the art and a critique of our society and our selves...


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move along, here's your chair. *brain explodes*
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tpaine posted:

His name is Ai Weiwei?! Ai Weiwei?! Ai Weiwei. What the fuck is a Ai Weiwei?! Ai Weiwei. Where he from, China? What the fuck?! That ain't no fuckin' name, yo. That ain't that nigga's name. You can't be serious. Ai Weiwei. Get the fuck outta here. Wow, Ai Weiwei! The nigga's name is Ai Weiwei. Ai Weiwei? Nigga named Ai Weiwei. What the fuck, man?! Is he serious? That ain't his fuckin' name. Ima tell this nigga when I see him, "Stop that bullshit. Stop that bullshit" "That ain't your fuckin' name." Your momma ain't name you no damn Ai Weiwei

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c_man posted:

why is he a capitalist



Everyone's a capitalist now

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aye wee wee
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ai wawaweewa
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tardy on these heaters
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These are all excellent arts, however lets get back to ai wei wei being a western house nigger
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Ai Weiwi with my Peipi
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ai weiwei is a dumb retard, and so am i
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RBC posted:

c_man posted:

why is he a capitalist

He's a multimillionaire that employs teams of workers to create "his" art to whom he gives no credit and most likely pays extremely poorly while he accumulates piles of money from their work.



Sounds like he's creating a lot of jobs, what's wrong with that?

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Did anyone post
"Ai Chinese
Ai make joke
Ai make weiwei in your coke"
yet
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Why not make this thread about Damien Hirst just wondering
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Mike Nelson here.
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i think it's pronounced aye way-way. so all your jokes are extra racist.

i watched part of a documentary on him and it was really bad. i don't know his art very well though.
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swampman posted:

Did anyone post
"Ai Chinese
Ai make joke
Ai make weiwei in your coke"
yet

This is monkeysmashesheaven's stance on Weiwei, verbatim, by the way

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RBC posted:

c_man posted:

why is he a capitalist

He's a multimillionaire that employs teams of workers to create "his" art to whom he gives no credit and most likely pays extremely poorly while he accumulates piles of money from their work.



thats not a description of a capitalist btw

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swampman posted:

Why not make this thread about Damien Hirst just wondering



because the op is a racist

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RBC posted:

He's a multimillionaire that employs teams of workers to create "his" art to whom he gives no credit and most likely pays extremely poorly while he accumulates piles of money from their work.



Warhol to Weiwei is a perfect metaphor for modern global industry

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RBC posted:

c_man posted:

why is he a capitalist

He's a multimillionaire that employs teams of workers to create "his" art to whom he gives no credit and most likely pays extremely poorly while he accumulates piles of money from their work.



this describes all the renaissance masters btw

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swampman posted:

Why not make this thread about Damien Hirst just wondering



Everybody already knows he sucks and he's not really political.

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littlegreenpills posted:

this describes all the renaissance masters btw


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He's a half-baked dilettante who is willing to undermine the backbone of his society for a bit of attention and ego-stroking from Time Magazine reading liberals; basically hes China's answer to Solzhenitsyn or Martin Luther King Jr.
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I have maintained since the beginning of posting history that Ai WeiWei is a terrible person. I win, it's me, I'm the winner, not you, me. Search for the quotes and you will even discover that some posters here criticized my anti-WeiWei stance. Who's laughing now? I am.
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