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Gee Golly Grapho, Jackson Pollock's intuitics?  Pollock was an opportunist...a con artist of savvy talent, who imitated the styles of several great and several not so great original artists. But that is not the point. The point is that Maria Aquilera's art is imitative too, even though she seems to have transcended the style that she has adopted. Maybe she is a bit mad, maybe, but like a fox. A crass cunning captialistic fox, like Jackson Pollock. But I've changed my mind, that is not the point, the point is... The Forty Thousand Bucks that paid for the misspelled unfathomable public mural cane from the poor taxpayers of California. Those who approved and then imposed this way- out-of-the-mainstream mural of questionable worth upon the long suffering public should be quarted. Quarted, that is, in a remote loft in SoHo and away from the doings of women and men who work. Three-point manifesto art should be restricted to hang only among the lovely red worker works (say this three times real fast ) of the former Soviet Union. If misspelling words is art...then take this you...you... phony lexiphanic nates.
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re Would Shakespeare really mind? ... yes, because she didn't take the time to see whether or not she spelled their names correctlyI think you and etaoin should compare notes, themilum.
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OK grapho, me and etoin compareed our notes and found your aside amusing and self-congradulating but sadly so; a totally unnecessary diversion from the central point, you know, like a slippery lawyer's argument when he argues to divert rather than address the lack of evidence in his flimsy case. Besides, no one knows for sure who Shakspere was. Maybe Shakspare was a woman, just like the Mona Lisa, who, as we know today, was a man.
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"The importance of this work is that it is supposed to unite people," Alquilar said. "They are denigrating my work and the purpose of this work."
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Sorry. And the irony here is comical to me, at least. We're obviously divided, at least on this issue. Funny how a little thing like misspelling a few words can part the sea of people's acceptance and unity like Moses.
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We're obviously divided
If it's any consolation, her art's about as good as her spelling.
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My feeling is that she is attempting to deflect fair criticism by putting spin on it. She's basically saying that those who complain about the spelling of the names are bad people who are abusing her personally and are blind to the lofty goals of her noble work. The criticism of her work is in fact valid, and if it makes her feel "denigrated" then she is too egotistical. (It is proper for her to feel a bit of embarassment over this by the way.)
If you had to choose between two artists in the future for a public works project, which would you choose: one who graciously rectified a problem or one who tried to make herself out to be the victim of some horrible injustice?
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All members of this board fully agree that our government should not decree by law the spelling of the words we use, yet conversely, we meekly agree to let pseudo-intellectual governmental bureaucracies declare to us that which is Art. But moreso, we then allow these dinosaurs of aspheterism to impose their silly vogue ideas of Art upon the plodding but hardworking taxpaying citizens of this great country; honest folk who seldom get the point. Ha ha, the joke is on the honest folk; their hard earned money pays for the joke! Now let's hear it from someone else out there in Awadland. Can anyone here explain the joke? ________________________________________________________________________________
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we meekly agree to let pseudo-intellectual governmental bureaucracies declare to us that which is Art.
Not sure what country you live in. [insert smile here according to your dictates] The country I live in used to fund art, until they decided to fund churches and wars instead. (I hear that the US Constitution makes a great fire-starter.) I personally would rather my tax dollars be spent on art (from Rockwell to Maplethorpe) than bailing out failed and (morally and financially) bankrupt businesses or promoting new dictators in faroff lands. YMMV.
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