This is a contemporary artwork called "Crouching Pollock" by one of the most famous Chinese contemporary artists, Cai Guo-Qiang, transcribed in Chinese character 蔡國強.
Two shabby robots are spattered with vibrant-colored paints. There's a canvas but it's being splashed with pink paint. As you can see, it seems the electrical chords are connected to the robots to supply electricity.
What for? Of course, to enable the robots to do the painting. Using their mechanical hands, the robots are able to splash paints on the canvas from a paint container held by the other hand.
From the name of this artwork and the method of painting, you may realize that this style imitates Jackson Pollock, who is one of the most influential abstract painters in the 20th century and whose style is famous for spattering. The heads of the robots have pictures indicating Pollock in action.
Having the robots do the painting in the same as the renowned artist do his artwork is a radical criticism to his masterpiece.
The artwork questions the value of the artwork. I'm not exactly sure but every Pollock masterpiece costs not less than 1 million dollar (I'm sure the most extravagant of all is over 100 million dollars, which can be compared to the GDP of a small country). On the other hand, paintings done by the robots sold on the spot at about 50 dollars. Although they have similar method, and appearance, nevertheless there is no comparison between the values. It clarifies the usual but forgettable fact that the price of art is perceived not by its beauty but its value in the market in capitalism, in other words the demands. How famous its painter is, and how popular the painting is determines the value .
After you are stimulated intellectually, let's enjoy another aspect of this artwork. It is very lovely that the robots waving their hand and splattering innocently without caring of getting stained by spattering colors. Lovely!
Crouching? Pondering?
Thanks to Ezro's revision.
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