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Re: Canceled Lego Theme...?
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Thu, 18 Apr 2002 18:26:21 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, David Koudys writes:
> Oh what was that quote from West Wing--Republicans being 'small-minded,
> xenophobic, anti-choice, gun worshipping...' oh I can't remember--going to
> have to watch a tape tonite! :)
Well, I don't watch TV much, so I wouldn't know...
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> Yes, in *your* opinion, the holocaust set were not art. In *my* opinion, a
> black canvas with a red stripe down the middle isn't art either, but the
> Canadian government and the Art Gallery thereof, obviously disagreed with
> me, buying the painting for 1.3 million dollars (this was years ago). I
> didn't care for it, but in the *general* definition of art, it was art. You
> cannot say 'This is art and this isn't'. The artist who made it can say, 'I
> made this. It is my representation. It is art.' It doesn't matter if it
> was made out of cow paddies and tuna fish.
So you are comfortable calling a image depicting child molestation art, merely
because the slime who created it says it is? So what use is art, if it's
anything and everything anyone says it is? It becomes, literary, *meaningless*
The *only* critique I would
> offer is that artists can make whatever they want--that does *not* mean we
> have to buy it or appreciate it. Public art galleries should be acquiring
> art that could be appreciated by the people for it is funded *by* the
> people. Be risque to push the envelope a bit, for that causes growth.
Okay, I'm a "performance artist" and I shoot a dog in the head. "Art"?
> Don't jump across the line 'just because it is there' however.
But why not!!! That *IS* "art" today! Who can be the most perverse, the most
shocking. It's a disgrace.
Private
> galleries, on the other hand, can do whatever they plese for it's their own
> money.
>
> I like the Brick Testament. I'm a Bible believing, church going Christian
> and I *like* the Brick testament.
He mocks you and your faith; why would you *like* that?
I don't care if it's made by a
> non-believing person. Rev. Smith has crossed no lines as far as I'm
> concerned. He reads the Bible passages, literally (almost to a fault) and
> makes scenes. He actually interpreted some scriptures with his scenes and
> got across the ideas better than some of my Sunday School teachers could.
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> If this was made by a bona-fide upstanding 'pillar of the church community',
> would it make any difference at all?
A "pillar" wouldn't do it in the first place.
-John
Not to me. Mayhaps to those that are
> 'offended' that someone outside the church circles took their 'good book'
> and actually read it literally.
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> I really have said enuf here.
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> As usual, as clear as mud.
>
> Dave
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| (...) Am *I* comfortable with it? Not at all. As stated, I didn't appreciate a red stripe on a black canvas. That was just a stripe! There is a bigger picture, and I think the history of my posts have said again and again--I have the freedom to do (...) (22 years ago, 18-Apr-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
| | | Art? (Was: Re: Canceled Lego Theme...?)
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| (...) I think I'll try at a definition I can live with: Art is that which is created/performed/presented with the intent of invoking an emotional reaction from those to whom it is presented. Child porn - Art? Only if it's the intent of the (...) (22 years ago, 18-Apr-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) Oh what was that quote from West Wing--Republicans being 'small-minded, xenophobic, anti-choice, gun worshipping...' oh I can't remember--going to have to watch a tape tonite! :) Yes, in *your* opinion, the holocaust set were not art. In *my* (...) (22 years ago, 18-Apr-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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