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texture, brand and other features and arranged in a display cabinet with the list displayed to one side.
The “conjoinment” category lists which of the cornflakes are singular flakes and which of them have been joined during the baking process to make double or triple cornflakes.
She added: “I collect all sorts of ridiculous things like coffee cup lids, bottle lids, lolly sticks and old light bulbs. I’ve always been interested in the practices a museum curator might go through. It was a combination of those ideas that inspired me.”
The choice has not pleased everyone. Figurative artist Charles Thomson who co-founded a group in 1999 to oppose conceptual art like the works of Tracey Emin, said: “The art world is totally deluded. If the Royal Academy now wants to promote itself as a cornflakes museum I’d have no objection but if it thinks it is promoting art then perhaps it ought to reconsider.” He added: “I think it’s a flaky decision but at least the artist has made a packet out of it.”
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ANNE’S cornflake masterpiece was sold for £900, but if that is out of your budget Daily Express reporter John Fitzpatrick managed to create his own version...and you can own it.
If you want to get your hands on his mini-masterpiece, all you have to do is guess how much John spent on materials.
John bought a photo frame, a packet of dressmaker pins and a family size box of Kellogg’s Corn Flakes.
Then he got to work sorting through the dry breakfast cereal for flakes that stood out from the rest.
He then set about carefully pinning his selected flakes into place and writing classification numbers under each exhibit for that authentic taxonomy touch.
In less than two hours he had his own piece of original art that you can either hang on the wall – or splash with some milk and eat for breakfast. John said of his creation: “A lot of people would say that this isn’t art, it’s just a bunch of cornflakes in a box. And they would be right.
“I would like to say that the choice of each corn flake was torn from me in a convulsion of creativity – but I just tipped them out of the packet. I am pleased with the results, though.”