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To: Wilhelm Tell
The artist has some proficiency. Like a lot of other things, however, it is so mixed up with non-art controversy that the whole scenario is to muddled too comprehend. How can the same state punish the cop killer in one of its institutions and subsidize showing the art in another? Why is the art not just presented to the public as art in a gallery or art show?

More importantly, how are we going to free ourselves from the continual strife and upset every small pressure group exerts on everything anyone tries to do? And when will we outgrow our morbid fascination with the bad guys and recognize the heros in our midst, again, especially in schools?

12 posted on 09/17/2006 6:36:52 AM PDT by ClaireSolt (Have you have gotten mixed up in a mish-masher?)
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To: ClaireSolt

Limited proficiency in my view. The negro boy is somewhat handsomely painted, but the other figures look to be very amateurishly done...why the discrepancy?

In any case, I think the strife will lessen when the citizenry at large is no longer coerced into supporting art which is directed at the destruction and mockery of that same citizenry. In other words, when the art is allowed to stand on its own.


14 posted on 09/17/2006 8:06:08 AM PDT by Sam Cree (Don't mix alcopops and ufo's)
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To: ClaireSolt
And when will we outgrow our morbid fascination with the bad guys and recognize the heros in our midst, again, especially in schools?

A very good point. I think it is part of the politicaly correct, anti-achievement mentality where art has to be deconstructed until it is non-art. Any pseudo-art that is permitted must have an anti-social, anti-Western meaning. There is also a strong element of moral relativism. Some axe murderer or child molester is shown to be "sensitive" -- maybe even a superior being -- if he can doodle a drawing or write some incoherent prose. As an added bonus, normal people who don't appreciate the monster's "art" can be denounced as being insensitive, maybe even evil.

21 posted on 09/17/2006 5:50:02 PM PDT by Wilhelm Tell (True or False? This is not a tag line.)
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