[TheForge] Re: TheForge Digest, Vol 46, Issue 14- art and reality

[lee robbins]

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Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2007 09:43:45 -0500
From: "Ron Childers" <munlaw2 at hcsmail.com>
Subject: RE: [TheForge] Art, doncha know....
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You are right about the herd- the masses are asses. A
crucifix in a
 toilet
and dung smeared on a photo of the Virgin Mary is not
art and anyone
 who
thinks so is a moron. So what if that sort of lunacy
provokes debate
 and
conversion among pseudo-intellectuals? 

The city fathers of a small town in South Georgia
wanted some culture,
 so
they commissioned a "sculptor" who did nothing more
than dump a truck
 load
of big rocks on the court house lawn and hauled ass
with the $$ he was
 paid
in advance. They knew right away they were had and
paid to have them
 taken
to the big red rock eater.

At least they corrected their mistake without any big
hullabaloo. Kinda
 hard
to find morons in small Georgia towns; they must shoot
'em.

Ron C


IT is more than just subjectivity and art has always
been interacting with the reality of the moment. Now
we can do more things so resources are much greater
though there are still the limited number of
practitioners of genius. I'd add Tom Joyce and George
Roussis to the aforementioned large list.

about some of the specifics. did you ever see the piss
Christ?.Piss Christ was his comment on the
worthlessness of religious hypocrisy. Andres Serrano
had a cow head on a series of pink marble slabs at the
WHitney, almost like a crown on a throne.  they
replaced the heads daily since they were
unrefrigerated. At the Brooklyn Museum i saw the Chris
Ofilli with the gilt elephant dung and it had a
similarity to the gilt prerenaissance altar pieces and
byzantine mosaics, not simply shit onm a madonna as
the boob mayor of the time, Giuliani, intrerpreted it.
At the same show there was a series of huge glass
cabinets with slices of a cow that you could walk
between. Having studied anatomy it was interesting but
the nice wooden glass-faced boxes of formaldehyde
grossed people out. Art to shock the public out of
complacency, a recurrent function of art, not just to
paint pretty pictures. As has been said before,
writing about art is like dancing about architecture.
It is all about how it affects you when you are in its
presence. art is always testing limits be it with
color, tonality, materials or content. My complaint is
that of little content writ large. However Robert
Smithson made some superlative piles of rock.


Lee Robbins
Flying tortoise forge studio


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