Three hours of collage preparation (stage 1: removing the pages from the source).
Fella in the pub said his old man used to say an hour in the mornings worth two in the evening.
“In the run-up to the 2004 Turner Prize, the most prestigious contemporary art prize awarded in Britain, the sponsor of the award, Gordon’s Gin, polled five hundred of the most powerful people in the art world. Leading dealers, critics, artists, and curators were asked what in their opinion was the most influential work of art of the twentieth century, taken from a list of twenty nominations. When the votes were tabulated, well back in second place was Picasso’s Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, ahead of Andy Warhol’s Marilyn Diptych, Picasso’s Guernica, and Matisse’s The Red Studio in fifth place, with works by Joseph Beuys, Constantin Brancusi, Jackson Pollock, Donald Judd, and Henry Moor bringing up the rear. The winner by far, with 64 percent of the vote for number one, was an object whose very status as a work of art remains in dispute, a work that no longer exists because the artist’s sister tossed it into the trash long ago: Fountain, the men’s urinal put forward for exhibition in 1917 by Marcel Duchamp. (p193, The Art Instinct, Dennis Dutton, 2009)”
