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Compare [[Accidental Art]]. A person might invoke this trope deliberately to hide; see [[Nobody Here but Us Statues]].

 

 

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'''Rimmer''': I couldn't buy it off you then?<br />

'''Legion''': Not really. I need it to turn the lights on and off. }}

{{quote| '''[[John Cleese (Creator)|He]]:''' To me, one of the most curious things about this piece is its wonderful afunctionalism.<br />

'''She:''' Yes, I see what you mean. Divorced from its function and seen purely as a piece of art, its structure of line and colour is curiously counterpointed by the redundant vestiges of its function.<br />

''(The Doctor, Romana, and Duggan run into the TARDIS, which dematerialises.)''<br />

'''She:''' Exquisite. Absolutely exquisite. }}

* ''[[Murphy Brown]]'': Eldin (Murphy's live-in housepainter) gets a show at an art gallery. At the opening people come in to find a completely empty room. They discuss whether they themselves are the art or what, but then Eldin points out that he painted a mural [[Behind the Black|on the ceiling]].

* Parodied by [[The Chasers War On Everything|The Chaser]], who attempted to demonstrate that it was possible to dump all kinds of junk in an art gallery without people noticing: tree clippings ("Lord of the Plants"), an old computer, a broken vacuum cleaner (unsucessfully), an old mattress (unsuccessfully, though one woman spent some time admiring it) and two garbage bags ("Fun Dip").

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