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Re: is it art, or profiting off of racism?
By: Snickers Date: July 27, 2015, 6:02 pm
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[quote author=p2_d link=topic=1455.msg20046#msg20046
date=1438027368]
Linda
It is my understanding that Michael Browns mother gave her
permission to use his likeness. She also was the first to view
the exhibit
Rapids
I remember back in the 80s a student painted a picture of then
Mayor Washington in women's undies, several alderman went to the
student gallery and had the police remove the painting.
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirth_%26_Girth
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They must have offered her some money.
She was selling those t shirts for her own financial gain and
even had brown's Grandmother put in the hospital over money
being made off those shirts.
Low life p. o. s.
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Re: is it art, or profiting off of racism?
By: rapids_60 Date: July 28, 2015, 1:06 am
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[quote author=p2_d link=topic=1455.msg20046#msg20046
date=1438027368]
I remember back in the 80s a student painted a picture of then
Mayor Washington in women's undies, several alderman went to the
student gallery and had the police remove the painting.
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirth_%26_Girth
[/quote]
Yikes! I had forgotten about that, lol. These days you'd be in
hot water for suggesting a man in women's underwear was an
insult, lol.
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Re: is it art, or profiting off of racism?
By: p2_d Date: July 28, 2015, 8:16 am
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Linda
Sometimes art is decorative and sometimes art needs to shock.
Why do churches have Christ hanging on a cross? Picasso's
Guernica was used to shock people and in a positive way, of the
horrors of war.
Rapids.
Regarding Serrano. I have no problem with the NEA funding and
would be more upset if art work had to pass a morals test to get
funding. I have read quite a bit about this work and being a
very devout Catholic think its message might have been
misunderstood. from the artist, ""The thing about the crucifix
itself is that we treat it almost like a fashion accessory. When
you see it, you're not horrified by it at all, but what it
represents is the crucifixion of a man," Serrano told the
Guardian. "And for Christ to have been crucified and laid on the
cross for three days where he not only bled to death, he shat
himself and he peed himself to death."So if Piss Christ upsets
you, maybe it's a good thing to think about what happened on the
cross."
From a Catholic nun and art critic Sister Wendy Beckett, "as not
blasphemous but a statement on "what we have done to Christ":
that is, the way contemporary society has come to regard Christ
and the values he represents."
Perhaps a new and interesting way to view that work?
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Re: is it art, or profiting off of racism?
By: rapids_60 Date: July 28, 2015, 2:09 pm
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[quote author=p2_d link=topic=1455.msg20050#msg20050
date=1438089417]
Rapids.
Regarding Serrano. I have no problem with the NEA funding and
would be more upset if art work had to pass a morals test to get
funding.
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I don't agree with a "morals test". But I'm not in favor of the
government funding artists regardless, so there wouldn't be one.
Why not just fund everybody's job?
I AM in favor of government subsidizing admission to concerts,
exhibits, etc. for those who cannot afford it.
[quote]
I have read quite a bit about this work and being a very devout
Catholic think its message might have been misunderstood.
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Thanks for posting that, I feel like I learned something and
never looked at it in that way before. I agree that the true
extent of Christ's suffering has been sanitized for public
consumption. I wish that explanation had accompanied the
exhibit (assuming it did not- I don't recall hearing it at the
time)
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