Luc Tuyman vs Joshua Bell Bakeoff

April 24th, 2008 · or link to (permalink)

One of the world’s most successful painters, Luc Tuyman, recently exhibited on a wall in a side street ( via Boingboing ). This is reminiscent of when one of the world’s premier violinists, Joshua Bell, played in the DC Metro.

Both Luc Tuyman and Joshua Bell are good sports. They both ventured outside of their natural habitat to display their feathers in ordinary situations to see if people noticed. I put this up as a contrast to the previous post about Gregor Schneider, since neither of these people are Fartists (Feeble artists).

tags: art society

2 responses so far »

Michelle B : Apr 25, 2008 at 7:45 am

Fascinating experiment! I particularly enjoyed the art museum experts giving an estimate of about 90% of passersby stopping to check out the painting (in reality, it was only 4%!)
adrian cotter : Apr 25, 2008 at 11:33 pm

Great pieces.

it would be nice to extend the experiments a little bit for the visual art: how would any other visual art fare, photos, a mural, or graffiti. And then compare that to an add, or a bunch of text even. how would the numbers change, who would stop…

And then move the experiment around a bit. Would neighborhoods change their response?