"What's going on?"

Just as Li Tong and the security captain were at loggerheads, Director Jiang of the Shoubo Exhibition Office came over.

Director Jiang glanced at Li Tong's "work" and didn't speak for a while.

"Why don't you invite a few experts to come over and have a look?" Director Jiang suggested as he looked at the crowd of onlookers.

"Hmm. The crowd seconded.

"I will invite the curator, the deputy curator, and the professors of the jury of this National Outstanding Graduate Exhibition. Director Jiang ordered.

After a while, Director Meng and Deputy Director Ji of Shoubo came.

Director Meng is well-informed and more generous, and after he came, he just carefully studied Li Tong's works with his cheeks, and did not show an expression of disgust or impatience.

On the contrary, Deputy Director Ji is very pedantic, and usually disdains the so-called avant-garde art engaged in by those young artists.

As soon as he saw Li Tong's inexplicable "work," he sternly criticized: "Art is not a joke, it is not grandstanding! Li Tong, I hope you will not laugh and be generous in such an elegant place as Shoubo!"

Director Jiang is a wall-to-wall grass, and when he heard what Deputy Curator Ji said, he immediately patted his ass and said, "Deputy Curator Ji is right, security, move this out." ”

"Wait!"

At this moment, Director Meng slowly spoke.

"Li Tong, I'll give you a chance, why don't you explain this work of yours?"

Several professors on the jury also nodded, feeling that Director Meng's move was very appropriate.

These professors are all from major universities. In colleges and universities, there are more students who are unconventional, so they are not surprised.

is not like Deputy Director Ji, who is conservative and pedantic, and doesn't even give Li Tong a chance.

At this time, several reporters from Huaxia Art also handed over the microphone and voice recorder:

"Yes, Li Tong, tell us about this work of yours, can you?"

"What is your original intention and what do you want to express?"

Everyone understands that this is Director Meng giving young people a chance, as long as Li Tong puts an avant-garde art rhetoric on this urinal, he can get away with it.

Li Tong also understood, but the poplar tree on the side burst out with a loud sneer: "Hehe, the original intention, still creating? Putting the urinal in the exhibition hall shows that his donkey skills are exhausted." ”

In other words, if this can be considered art, then everyone in this world is an artist. Deputy Curator Ji immediately answered.

At this time, the crowd was even more agitated:

"There's a good show to watch now! I want to see how Li Tong explains his work!"

"No, if he can't spit out ivory from the dog's mouth, he'll be grandstanding. ”

"Hey, I think Li Tong is planting this time, what can the urinal explain?"

"Young painters, emerging and rising, is nothing more than that! Li Tong must be exhausted in donkey skills. ”

All kinds of negative doubts, such as wind from all directions, poured into Li Tong's ears.

But he had no scruples and smiled indifferently: "The philosopher Wittgenstein said that philosophy only puts everything in front of us, it neither explains nor deduces anything. Because everything is openly laid out there, there is nothing to explain. ”

Speaking of this, Li Tong paused, puffed up his chest and pointed to the urinal and continued: "And my art is also "clear", solidly expressing the world, and as clear as crystal. ”

What?

Don't explain?

The audience was even more puzzled, just now Li Tong dragged the text for a long time, and finally co-authored it to tell everyone that he had nothing to explain about his work?

This...... Is it just a urinal?

So much for?

"Painter Li, what do you mean, this is a urinal, no need to explain? This is not art?" The reporter of "Huaxia Art" was also stunned, and grabbed Li Tong and asked.

Bai Mengting's small and delicate nose was covered with fine beads of sweat, she felt that Li Tong was messing around too much this time, and she should not be able to mix it up.

After all...... Even if he rehashes a rhetoric about avant-garde art, it is better than the current attitude of not explaining!

Attitude is everything.

Director Meng gave him a chance, he didn't want it, did he want to go to heaven?

"Hehe, I'm just saying that this work doesn't need to be explained, not that it's not art. Li Tong answered reporters' questions unhurriedly.

"Is this art?" the reporter still disagreed, "It's just a urinal that has just been removed from the toilet!"

Li Tongwan smiled, "If you don't think it's art, then what?"

As he spoke, Li Tong took out the black marker pen he had with him, and then signed the English name "R.mutt 2017" on the urinal.

"It's art, isn't it?"

Li Tong closed the cap of the pen neatly, facing everyone, the corners of his mouth pulled into an uninhibited smile.

"Li Tong! You liar! This is not art at all, this is just a readymade!" Yang Shu spared no effort to expose Li Tong, "Even if you sign it, it is just a readymade!"

Li Tong sneered in his heart, hehe, this poplar really dares to say it!

If Duchamp, who changed the course of Western modern art in his previous life, is not art, then what is art?

In 1917, when the New York Society of Independent Artists held an exhibition, Duchamp, one of the judges, under the pseudonym "R. Mutt", sent a male urinal that could be found everywhere in public toilets and signed it: "R. mutt", which is "The Spring".

In 2004, the late French artist Marcel Duchamp's Fountain beat two works by Picasso to become the most influential work of art of the 20th century in an auction held by the British art world.

And the reason why Duchamp is great is that he uses this readymade product to ask people this question: what is a work of art and what is art?

How far is art from life?

"Anti-tradition, anti-rational, anti-aesthetic, anti-moral, anti-art. After a while, Director Meng muttered to himself at the urinal.

"You also think it's not art, do you?" Deputy Director Ji gloated.

Curator Meng glanced at Deputy Curator Ji, twisted his eyebrows, and resumed his silence.

All the people present held their breath and stared, whether Li Tong's work was art or not, to a certain extent, now depends on the words of Director Meng.

As long as Director Meng leaves this exhibit in the museum for exhibition, then it is not art but also art!

If Director Meng throws this work out, then even Li Tong's "Spring" will surely become a pile of construction waste.

"I'm not saying it's not art. Director Meng glanced at Deputy Director Ji with a sharp eye, "Anti-art and 'not art' are not the same concept!

Deputy Curator Ji beside him blushed when Director Meng said it.

The crowd was silent, and most of them couldn't understand what Director Meng meant.

There was only one person at the scene who understood, and he was Duan Xiaochun, the editor-in-chief of "Huaxia Art" and a famous art critic.

"Meng Lao, I agree with you. Li Tong's work is bound to cause a hermeneutic uproar in the future. Perhaps it will become a milestone in the annals of modern art. ”

Duan Xiaochun originally just saw the good weather today, so he walked over casually to see the artistic ideas of young people now, and he didn't have much expectations for the exhibition.

Because every year, the exhibition of outstanding graduates is the same, just like the open class in the school, flawless, only displayal, but no ornamentation.

But he never thought that he was so lucky today that he would actually run into such an avant-garde work of art.