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Say "Bollocks" and you think of only one man - Jason Bollocks!
The artist's action paintings are world-renowned, and have the look of the paint has just been thrown on willy-nilly. But are they more complex than that ... or so simple a child could do them?
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| "Accident With A Paint Tin" |
BANANAS: Most of your paintings look like you've just thrown the paint on without any thought to it whatsoever.
BOLLOCKS: Well that's exactly what I done.
BANANAS: There must be more to it than that though, surely?
BOLLOCKS: Look pal, as long as people keep paying thousands of pounds for 'em, why should I bother? I sold one the other day. I knocked over a paint tin accidentally and it splashed all over the canvas. I call it, "Accident With a Paint Tin". It sold for 3,000 quid. It's money for old rope!
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| "Vomit" |
In fact "money for old rope" is quite apt, as the artist's controversial exhibition of old rope at the Tate attracted critical notice; not least for his sheer nerve at showing exhibits such as, "Pile of Rope", "Tangled Rope", "Dirty Old Rope" and "Rope in a Heap With One End of it Tied to a Chair".
One of Bollocks' paintings even looks like someone has thrown up over the canvas.
BOLLOCKS:It's supposed to! I call it "Vomit", for exactly that reason.
A book of his entire artwork called, Complete Bollocks, is available from all good bookshops and art shops worldwide and just a casual leaf through the pages and you see just how crap this man's work really is. It's total shit!
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| "Reclining Nude" |
Another painting, his so-called "Reclining Nude" is - vaguely - a child type stick drawing of a woman with breasts badly painted.
In fact the finished result is not even as good as a child could do!
BANANAS:Some critics have said of your work that it looks like a child of four painted it. In fact it has sometimes been said that a child of four could do much better!
BOLLOCKS: That's probably true. I have a niece, she's four and she's much better than me.
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| "Janet Shuttleworth" |
His latest work has attracted much attention due to the fact that it is actually quite good!
BOLLOCKS:This is my latest (he said showing us his latest work) I call it, Janet Shuttleworth.
BANANAS:But isn't that the Mona Lisa?
BOLLOCKS:The what?
BANANAS:A famous painting by Leonardo de Vinci.
BOLLOCKS:No I done it.
Janet Shuttleworth or The Mona Lisa? Genius or fraud? Who knows? Who cares? I don't!
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