Ear Grown From Van Gogh DNA On Display

First time accepted submitter afeeney (719690) writes 'The Centre for Art and Media in Karlsruhe, Germany, is displaying an ear grown from DNA contributed by a relative of artist Vincent Van Gogh. The Center said artist Diemut Strebe made the replica using living cells from Lieuwe van Gogh, the great-great-grandson of Vincent’s brother Theo. Using a 3D-printer, the cells were shaped to resemble the ear that Vincent van Gogh is said to have cut off during a psychotic episode in 1888. “I use science basically like a type of brush, like Vincent used paint,” Strebe told The Associated Press. Historians argue about whether Van Gogh cut off his own ear and if so, why, but it remains one of the most famous acts of self-mutilation in the Western world.'

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[flyneye]

It is perfectly alright to have toads in your hat , so long as they are not soaked in Cadmium and mineral spirits.
Cadmium, is bad shit, slowly absorbed by fondling your paint rag then running your fingers through your hair, picking your nose, eating without washing and even scrubbing the pigment off your hands with mineral spirits which carry it into the bloodstream. Starry Night was a hallucinatory painting indicative of the damage being suffered.
Not to worry though, painters, real Cadmium hasnt been used

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[Richy_T]

Yeah, they need the lead for pencils.

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[Richy_T]

I do not have toads in my hat! Se... well, lookie there.

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[AudioEfex]

Yeah I thought they had a piece of hair or something so it really was his. It's not far fetched - locks of Lincoln's hair still exist (as do samples from a great many folks, like Marilyn Monroe, Michael Jackson, and Elvis). VH1 has some "memorabilia" program that had an episode going to the home of one of the big "hair collectors" - I'm sure there is some weird name for them if one wanted to look it up - who had authenticated samples of all of the above and many more displayed and the most valuable ones l

Re:Physics on a stick

[Quasimodem]

In Monroe's case there would be little question about what to grow. Mammorabilia.

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[SuricouRaven]

But is is Jackson's real hair?

Re:Physics on a stick

[erroneus]

I saw a bunch of famous peoples heads kept alive in jars.

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[cHALiTO]

You watch far too much Futurama :)

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[sexconker]

You watch far too much Futurama :)

I posit that it is impossible to watch too much Futurama.

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[jandersen]

Seriously, what's so fucking great about using a relatives DNA?

It's art, in the same sense as it is art when David Blaine tries to impress people by sitting in a Faraday cage for while, or when somebody can sell a rotting pig's carcass for millions of dollars.

I can't see it myself - but maybe I'm just not sensitive enough. To me art is something that induces you to think or feel more deeply about something important by demonstrating something 'deep', and as far as I can see, what a lot of modern art demonstrates is simply the gullibility of certain people with more mon

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[DexterIsADog]

To me art is something that induces you to think or feel more deeply about something important by demonstrating something 'deep'...

That's an extremely narrow definition of art. To many people, art isn't something rare, deep and important that you go to appreciate, it's something you can appreciate anywhere, any time. Is the song "Happy" art? Most people would say yes, and I'd agree. How about that neighborhood mural of Julius Erving in Philadelphia? I'm not a basketball fan, but yeah, I'd say it is. Is Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto art? I think it's the finest piece of art ever created.

How about a piece alluded to by an earlier

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[Ol Olsoc]

How about a piece alluded to by an earlier post in this thread, "Piss Christ", a crucifix in a jar of urine? Well, I think that, along Marcel Duchamp's "Fountain", which was just a urinal are art also.

Ah yes, the "Whatever you can get away with" school of art.

Which unfortunately leads to a carny/rube relationship with a person putting a dead cow on display, and then the critics stumbling to assess the dead cow in strange and mysterious ways.

Obviously the dead cow and it's putrification process is not in the least creative. The creative process is the grifter who put the dead cow there making the critics do his/her bidding.

It's a exceptionally silly game, in the end, a sort of cockamamie performance

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[DexterIsADog]

You think art that is designed to provoke is not art. Well, then you're probably only half blind. But whatever floats your boat.

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[Ol Olsoc]

You read that from my post? NO - art is whatever you can get away with. I can take a shit and put it on a board, and take another and smear it on the face of everyone that looks at it. It is quite provoking. Therefore it is art. And you cannot declare that it isn't.

But it is silly and at the utter depths of banality, and in the end, existing only to provoke. not to be admired.

Except for those who like Goatse, or two girls, one cup, perhaps. There's some provocative high art, yes no?

Because in the e

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[DexterIsADog]

I think you're trying to nail Jello to a board (which might get you a grant).

This is like arguing religion.

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[geekoid]

Then the word 'art' is meaningless.

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[DexterIsADog]

That's quite a useful reply. It doesn't require you to have thought about it at all. Congrats.

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[Richy_T]

However, the great thing about art is you're not obliged to agree with anyone.

And the bad thing is that there are those that will tax your wealth to pay for it anyway.

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[DexterIsADog]

However, the great thing about art is you're not obliged to agree with anyone.

And the bad thing is that there are those that will tax your wealth to pay for it anyway.

Yes, because people should only be taxed to support things they personally agree with. Where do I get the refund for my share of the $1.1 Trillion the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter?

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[Richy_T]

That's a travesty too. For much the same reasons.

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[flyneye]

The estate of John Holmes has been tossing around the idea of cloned penii to be used for transplant and are furiously sampling DNA from amongst the family.
If you have a right foot and a left foot, it only makes sense to have a foot hanging between them. Be the life of the party! Impress girls! Quit stuffing potatoes down your shorts and get the real thing!

Van Gogh DNA, huh?

[Anonymous Coward]

I am your father's brother's nephew's cousin's former roommate.

Ears come in handy

[Earthquake Retrofit]

What? WHAT?

Hey bro...

[ewhenn]

Hey bro, I hear you like art!

Ear speaks:

[Tablizer]

"Since I'm alive again, where's my damned royalty check!"

Psssh

[Radish03]

Not even grown on a mouse's back? Come on!

Not much of Van Gogh's DNA

[viperidaenz]

http://www.wolframalpha.com/in... [wolframalpha.com]
Only 1/64th blood relation.

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[asmkm22]

Which is exactly what he was pointing out...

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[Smonson78]

Even worse... The ear wasn't grown at all. A pile of cells were grown and then sculpted into an ear shape - making this a complete non-story.

Re:Not much of Van Gogh's DNA

[tomhath]

using living cells from Lieuwe van Gogh

The title says "Van Gogh DNA". Misleading, but not a lie.

Since the rest of Van Gogh isn't around,

[mbstone]

Stir in a little melatonin and give the ear to Evander Holyfield.

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[freeze128]

Maybe we can get George Lucas to digitally put Van Gogh's missing ear back into his self portrait.

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[jellomizer]

So the ear cut the body off first?

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[tgeller]

Melanin. Melatonin would just put him to sleep.

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[tomhath]

Being a knock-off of Van Gogh's ear it would be more appropriate to make it swirling blobs of primary colors. Evander could call it a fashion statement.

Tetsuooooo!

[John Pfeiffer]

Anyone else think the art piece itself looks like the contents of one of the Akira sample canisters? Maybe she can make some more of them...just in time for the things to be buried in a secret military installation beneath the construction site for the 2020 Olympics venue. :P

Come on guys

[silvermorph]

This is the only thing he DIDN'T want to last longer than him. Don't be cruel.

Inheritence

[metac0rtex]

So the ear owns all of his collective works?

Follow-up projects

[shikaisi]

So as a follow-up to this success, what other missing body parts will they be growing? Jerry Garcia's middle finger? Heather Mills' leg? Rick Allen's left arm? George W Bush's brain?

Photo

[Threni]

Wouldn't it be easier to just take a photo of the relative's ear?

“I use science basically like a type of brus

[wdc2]

“...like Vincent used paint.” — Vincent Van Gogh didn't use paint like a brush. he had actual brushes for that.

Can't wait

[casner]

Interesting news - can't wait for another organs made of DNA of famous people...

lend me your ears

[Steven Krantz]

Friends, Romans, countrymen . . .

Ghouls gots art?

[Rambo Tribble]

As the man actually said, "When ignorance is bliss, 'tis folly to be wise." This would be such a case.

Grew an ear?

[nurb432]

Growing a blob of building material then using a 3D printer to make a shape out of it does not count as 'growing an ear' to me.

One chromosome

[Princeofcups]

If they are lucky. We need to get over the myth of the "blood relative."