I have a confession to make: I love art, but I am more than a little scornful of certain forms of Modern Art. OK, I'm extremely scornful of many forms of Modern Art. Things like Performance Art or when someone craps on a piece of paper and call it art. I went to SFMoMA and saw a giant stack of Indigo died shirts...like 1,000 of them and it was being called Art. I guess I just didn't get it. At first I thought they were Prison shirts and that made sense, but no they were just cotton shirts. It seemed like a waste of resources more than art...I mean come on, a big ass pile of shirts?
Why this rant? Well I was paying attention to two art related stories this week. NPR and BBC covered this story of the dumb-ass artist who as an , "Act of Love" kissed a $2M white canvas in France. Her lipstick cannot be removed from the canvas and now the owner is suing her for over $2M. The lady who kissed the painting is an artist too. I get a heavy whiff of publicity whore off this lasy more than genuine LOVE of art. Maybe she was hoping to piggyback on another artist's genius? Any way you slice it she defaced valuable and well thought of art, and it was NOT improved by ugly cheap red lipstick.
The other story totally grossed me out. An Artist has an ear grafted onto his skin as a statement of art...AN EAR! This is a medical technique used to help victims of violence, frostbite, etc...replace and reconstruct their bodies. What the hell is a perfectly normal, but possibly unhinged, dude doing grafting an ear onto his forearm? It looks gross and art be damned, this is clearly a medical ethicist worst nightmare. EWWWW!!!! This is not Art! I'll take a Rubens, Warhol or Pollack any day over seeing a dude with an ear on his arm...that is just all sorts of wrong!
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