Zach LarkinsHELP ME RHONDA
Okay, I need some help here. Will someone please explain art to me?
We have a piece of plywood painted white with a red stripe running down the middle of it hanging in Ottawa today. We, the taxpayers, got to spend 1.3 million dollars to obtain it. This is art?
Recently, here in town, we had an 'artist' sprinkle our riverfront parks with cornflakes so we could watch the seagulls eat them up. He didn't even do this himself. People volunteered to help him. This is art?
We have people who make dresses out of rotten meat and exhibit this as art. How so? Same with outfits made of condoms or a pot of urine on display as 'art'.
We are now in the throes of having human bodies on display for those among us who are more ghoulish than others. These are apparently real human bodies with various sections of their anatomy removed and parts of other bodies glued in their place. You are treated to the view of brains, hearts, ribs and lungs and eyes and this is art?
I have no idea where these bodies came from, but the show is touted as being composed of 'real human bodies'. Why anyone would spend money to see this exhibition is beyond me. And what about the indignity done to the deceased? Isn't that a crime in itself? Seems to me you can go to jail for pissing on someone's grave. At least that person got buried. It makes you think twice about leaving your body to science if that's what they're going to do to it. It's not only 'art', it's a 'learning experience'. Personally, I think it's sickening.
Whatever happened to the Norman Rockwell's and others of his ilk who produced what is recognizable as true art? You know, paintings of land, sea and sky scapes. Pictures of roads, bridges and tunnels. Cars, planes and trains. Fruit, flowers and portraits of people.
Art galleries are always busy asking for money because no one goes to them. I wonder why? When they condone crap like this you'd think they'd know people would stay away in droves. Why do my tax dollars go to help them out? I resent this strongly.
Someone please help me understand art. I seem to have lost the knack for knowing what it is and what it isn't. As Red Green said, "If I can do it, it ain't art."
We have a piece of plywood painted white with a red stripe running down the middle of it hanging in Ottawa today. We, the taxpayers, got to spend 1.3 million dollars to obtain it. This is art?
Recently, here in town, we had an 'artist' sprinkle our riverfront parks with cornflakes so we could watch the seagulls eat them up. He didn't even do this himself. People volunteered to help him. This is art?
We have people who make dresses out of rotten meat and exhibit this as art. How so? Same with outfits made of condoms or a pot of urine on display as 'art'.
We are now in the throes of having human bodies on display for those among us who are more ghoulish than others. These are apparently real human bodies with various sections of their anatomy removed and parts of other bodies glued in their place. You are treated to the view of brains, hearts, ribs and lungs and eyes and this is art?
I have no idea where these bodies came from, but the show is touted as being composed of 'real human bodies'. Why anyone would spend money to see this exhibition is beyond me. And what about the indignity done to the deceased? Isn't that a crime in itself? Seems to me you can go to jail for pissing on someone's grave. At least that person got buried. It makes you think twice about leaving your body to science if that's what they're going to do to it. It's not only 'art', it's a 'learning experience'. Personally, I think it's sickening.
Whatever happened to the Norman Rockwell's and others of his ilk who produced what is recognizable as true art? You know, paintings of land, sea and sky scapes. Pictures of roads, bridges and tunnels. Cars, planes and trains. Fruit, flowers and portraits of people.
Art galleries are always busy asking for money because no one goes to them. I wonder why? When they condone crap like this you'd think they'd know people would stay away in droves. Why do my tax dollars go to help them out? I resent this strongly.
Someone please help me understand art. I seem to have lost the knack for knowing what it is and what it isn't. As Red Green said, "If I can do it, it ain't art."
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