Artwork selling itself on eBay
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Is the reference to trashy, low-brow internet culture a reason to dislike it?
No, its the fact that its a twee internet reliant viral masquerading as art by the camouflaging of a cheap laptop inside a perspex box.
Its true that you could dismantle any piece of art into its constituent parts and devalue it as 'just a square of canvas, just some coloured paints', but its equally important to identify a good painting and a bad painting regardless of the presentation or the materials employed.
In this case, if you remove the presentation (a cheap laptop in a perspex box) you are left with a hackneyed old email novelty that would be considered an irritant if you weren't distracted and deceived by the bold claims that this is a piece of art.
I don't dislike it anyway. I think its very funny.