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An exhibition of modern British art was shown at the Te Papa Museum in Wellington, Zildland, a couple of years ago. There were not one but two controversial works that had the local god-bothering crowd up in arms and out on the streets. The whole brouhaha was made more interesting for us in that it was led by a former colleague of 'er indoors, Grahame Capill, a professional worrier of the first water and a minister in a church of the happy hand-clapping variety, but I repeat myself.
The first, and probably most controversial, of the two anathematised works of art was called "Virgin in a Condom". The work was literally that - a small plastic statue of Mary of the kind beloved of Roman Catholic children (I'm guessing here; no one else I know of likes them). The statue was inside what looked like a used condom. Well, it was a condom; it looked to be not new. The artist had justified the juxtaposition in a paragraph or so in the catalogue, but the local killjoys weren't having a bar of it. Death to the blasphemers, yadda, yadda, yadda.
The second piece really was a great work of art. It was called "Wrecked Last Supper" and was a photo-montage of a bunch of self-absorbed disciples eating a last supper. The only problem - and it was one that the misogynistic Catholic church was particularly vitriolic about - was that the "Christ" figure was a topless woman. Not a page 3 glamour model, just an ordinary woman.
It was a marvellous piece of work, and if I'd had the wall space - at least 10 feet long and 6 feet high - I'd have stolen it.
The artistic merits of "Virgin in a Condom" were certainly debatable - I put it roughly in the same category as lights going on and off and people modelling their own faeces - but the "Wrecked Last Supper" piece was pure, unadulterated and very clever, art. IMHO, of course.
- Pfranz
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(make sure to click on the "Earth as Art sampler" link in the Gallery window for all the photos after you peruse the story...I especially like Dashte-e Kevir and Coahuila): http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/space/12/06/satellite.art/index.html
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Here's what I just read:
"This desolate landscape is part of the Sierra Madre Oriental mountain range, on the border between the Coahuila and Nuevo Leon provinces of Mexico. "
Does the word "oriental" here mean "eastern"?
Those photographs are stunning!!! I wish I understood them--wish I understood exactly what I was seeing.
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Oriente means East in Spanish. Oriental means Eastern. They are beautiful, aren't they? Does the Icelandic one remind you of a dried leaf with frost gathering in it's pockets?
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Does the word "oriental" here mean "eastern"?
Right, in one! Give that lady one silver dollar!
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Those pictures remind me of an exibition on in the Natrual History Museum in London: http://www.earthfromtheair.com
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The winner of this year's Turner prize has just been announced. It goes to a Keith Tyson, who, in my view was one of the artists who put the most thought into his work, though I guess whether it's art or phart® is still debatable. Here's a link to the his work: http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/collective/A861644
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