Friday, April 18, 2008

Good stuff from Vin Suprynowicz

Right here. Let's start, though, with a fun exercise; try to spell Vin's last name without looking at it....even if you learned to read with phonics, I bet you'll have some trouble. :^)

Seriously, Suprynowicz makes an elegant case for, well, establishing your need for one of these. It's not a pleasant reality, but it is reality that sheep tend to get eaten by wolves.

And a follow up on the trouble with art; whether or not the Yale art student was actually producing "art" with the products of prenatal infanticide, it's amazing to think that anyone would actually think that blood of any sort on plastic sheeting could qualify as art. I can't exactly imagine the Medicis or other art patrons commissioning Miss Shvarts' work, but I can imagine that a lot of people, including my family, would keep away from galleries unless we were darned sure we wouldn't see something like that.

I would dare suggest that legitimate artists have a strong interest in evicting the dreck from galleries, and maybe families will come back.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

It goes beyond whether blood on plastic sheeting is art; it's also whether portraying yourself as having committed unspeakably reprehensible behavior and then revealing that you haven't, is really a kind of "performance" that is a form of "art," as opposed to sociopathology (otherwise known as an "illness.")

Gino said...

so many artists.
so little art.

Bike Bubba said...

Well said, Pentamom--as my step-grandfather would say when one of his grandsons had done something obnoxious: "you're sick, man, sick."