# Will somebody please tell "avant garde" artists that giant genitalia has been done before?

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [December 29, 2013, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-somebody-please-tell-avant-garde-artists-that-giant-genitalia-has-been-done-before/677390 "2013-12-29T04:16:26Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 1, 2014, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-somebody-please-tell-avant-garde-artists-that-giant-genitalia-has-been-done-before/677390/21 "2014-01-01T00:03:16Z")

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> [@Mr.Me](#):
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> From that site : . . .

She also had at least one that included big, blue and pink, penis-shaped rocks as the background to a lizard poling a boat along a river. But the website has been renovated recently and I couldn’t find it in the first few places I looked.

On the up side, [Beelzebear](http://www.redwombatstudio.com/product/beelzebear/)is easier to find.

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**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\
**Post date:** [January 1, 2014, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-somebody-please-tell-avant-garde-artists-that-giant-genitalia-has-been-done-before/677390/22 "2014-01-01T00:15:41Z")

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> [@Athena](#):
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> If we decided that art had to only consist of things that have not been done before, then we’d be pretty much out of art. Everything’s been done before.

Yep. If we really wanted to make a stand for originality in art, we’d ban self-portraits.

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**Author:** ![Baal\_Houtham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baal_houtham/32/13604_2.png) [@Baal\_Houtham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baal_Houtham)\
**Post date:** [January 1, 2014, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-somebody-please-tell-avant-garde-artists-that-giant-genitalia-has-been-done-before/677390/23 "2014-01-01T14:32:18Z")

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> [@Inner\_Stickler](#):
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> Yep. If we really wanted to make a stand for originality in art, we’d ban self-portraits.

Double yep. The OP’s complaint was far less original than the linked art.

The chickens don’t look like they’re part of the piece, but chickens often do hang around cocks, and coops usually have a seed dispenser.

My initial take on the “art” was that the handle was interesting – it opened up some new mental paths in my brain, as did (to a lesser degree) the downward erection. And the visual puns with the chickens were amusing. The crumpled steel block did nothing for me.

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