Art, and humor, are in the eyes of the beholder. I would have said in the “eyes and ears” of the beholder as you do have to hear some art and comedy, but would have been in poor taste as well?
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People revere thousands of relics related to dead religious people kept by the church and nobody bats an eye. Art gallery sells a tongue-in-cheek rubber Van Gogh ear and everybody loses their minds.
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as a life-long van Gogh fan, i wouldn’t buy one, but i get that it’s one of the two or three things most people know about him, so i get the impulse to market off it and make fun. at least it’s exposing people to art and artists, i guess.
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If I saw it in the museum store, I’d get a momentary chuckle, because I have no problem laughing at dark humor. One of the reasons I wouldn’t buy it, though, is that it would completely lose its humor value out of context. If I have to keep explaining to people that my rubber ear eraser is funny because I bought it at the Van Gogh museum, and not just because it’s a rubber ear, then it’s not funny.
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who has a pencil large enough?
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Boy can you imagine what that real ear would be worth? I would get it put in a lucite case and try to trade it for a amazing fantasy 15
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Hmmm … As a novelty eraser I think it’s kind of fun on its own. I mean that’s the story that caught on with people for this long. In my mind Van Gogh as a pop culture icon is almost like some folk saint of the arts, and the ear is part of his iconography.
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Based on Gaugin’s accounts, Van Gogh was the roommate from hell.
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For sale at the Tycho Brahe Observatory gift shop,
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/Adds to list of band names
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Well done!
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According to the Tate
Founded by Billy Childish and Charles Thomson in 1999, Stuckism is an art movement that is anti-conceptual and champions figurative painting
So while Duchamp’s fountain has lost some of its shock value, and at the time was not “commercialized” in the same sense as a Damien Hirst piece, it was somewhat in the same spirit as art that has been disparaged by Charles Thomson.
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Editable weed gummy ears 
would be fine with me. But consider the source…
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Wait, so it’s an eraser and it’s in the shape of an ear, which is part of the head…
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Yes often Gaugin was caught coughing:
“Go Gogh… go go go Gogh!!!”
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