ten piss artists i have been thinking about

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richard burton
f. scott fitzgerald
oliver reed
richard harris
francis bacon
george best
patrick hamilton
peter o'toole
dylan thomas
jackson pollock

― N_RQ, Tuesday, 2 August 2005 10:14 (twenty years ago)

OK, this is a perhaps obvious and stupid question - what is a "piss artist". I take it you don't mean "Piss Christ" or such stuff?

― Masonic Boom (kate), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 10:17 (twenty years ago)

A fine list! Apparently Dylan Thomas could stink out a room within seconds of entering it.

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 10:18 (twenty years ago)

I take it you don't mean "Piss Christ" or such stuff?

Hah, my first reaction was "what, people like Helen Chadwick?"

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 10:18 (twenty years ago)

http://img13.imageshack.us/img13/8154/fergie34zx.jpg

― nathalie sans denouement (stevie nixed), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 10:19 (twenty years ago)

Looking at that list, does it mean just "drunk"? In which case, where is Keith Moon?

― Masonic Boom (kate), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 10:19 (twenty years ago)

Creative drunks

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 10:20 (twenty years ago)

Jeffrey Bernard - The People's Pisshead

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 10:20 (twenty years ago)

In which case, I pick Richard Harris because amidst that piss, he still managed some quality spunk:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v328/JaredHarrisPhotoGallery/As%20himself/Portraits/6ce2f5c9.jpg

― Masonic Boom (kate), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 10:21 (twenty years ago)

I thought it meant things like "piss christ" as well.

Kate, "piss artist" = "habitual showy drunkard".

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 10:21 (twenty years ago)

Add:

Brendan Behan
Malcolm Lowry

... the list (like the glass) seems bottomless

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 10:21 (twenty years ago)

In which case, I pick Richard Harris because amidst that piss, he still managed some quality spunk:

someone left the piss out in the rain

― stockholm cindy (from norway) (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 10:22 (twenty years ago)

I could not remember how to spell Serrano, but here goes:

http://www.ncac.org/timeline/2%20PissChrist.jpg

― Masonic Boom (kate), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 10:22 (twenty years ago)

Nicol Williamson

― beanz (beanz), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 10:23 (twenty years ago)

yellow snow artists

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 10:25 (twenty years ago)

Peter Cook
Geoffrey Bernard

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 10:26 (twenty years ago)

piss-artist
noun
slang:
1. Someone who presents themselves as being organized and productive but who is in fact incompetent.
2. A drunkard.

Etymology: 1970s.

Excellent!

― Masonic Boom (kate), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 10:27 (twenty years ago)

Keith Moon

― beanz (beanz), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 10:32 (twenty years ago)

Tony Hancock

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 10:37 (twenty years ago)

Dean Martin
Winston Churchill
Ernest Hemingway

― beanz (beanz), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 10:47 (twenty years ago)

15Peter20

― Come Back Johnny B (Johnney B), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 10:51 (twenty years ago)

W.C. Fields!

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 10:52 (twenty years ago)

Shane McGowan (the latter-day Brendan Behan)

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 10:54 (twenty years ago)

http://www.taggart-fanclub.co.uk/Mark%20McManus%20-.jpg

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 10:54 (twenty years ago)

http://images.windowsmedia.com/img/prov_b/300_80/078636628028.jpg

― 2, Tuesday, 2 August 2005 11:47 (twenty years ago)

i saw some piss-art somewhere: a canadian artist and her bf had gone out in the snow and pissed in it, then filled the resulting holes with plaster or sth, removed the solidified piss-sculptures and arranged them on a platform pointing upwards. his were all much taller than hers.

― emsk ( emsk), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 16:33 (twenty years ago)

(nathalie OTM)

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 16:35 (twenty years ago)

1. Andres Serrano

http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/1595000/images/_1595128_011012serrano150piss.jpg

2. R. Kelly

http://www.absolutecelebrities.com/i/mugshot/RKelly.jpg

3. Moises Alou

http://img.slate.msn.com/media/1/123125/123073/2093532/2099852/040518_MOISES-ALOU-rplace.jpg

4. Huey Lewis

http://www.hln.org/pics/shortcuts1.jpg

5. Calvin