It interesting in that we already knew there's a lot of people out there who want to control women's bodies. She's making it obvious that you can't even speak about women's bodies even in academia. Sometimes really ugly art is the best art.
Mike that's just silly. You can speak about women's bodies all you want. Good lord, women's bodies have been the focus of art since the Venus de Milo dropped trou thousands of years ago.
I don't think a graphic portrayal of a "miscarriage" is something that is artistic in any way. The whole thing strikes me as a bunch of attention-grabbing nonsense dressed up as "art."
The whole thing strikes me as a bunch of attention-grabbing nonsense dressed up as "art."
So's the Mona Lisa.
I'll admit, this one left me scratching my head. I'm loathe to criticize art...but I have no desire to see this.
Since when did taunting people become art?
Since when did taunting people become art?
Yup. This ain't art. It's manipulation.
This ain't art. It's manipulation.
Art is manipulation.
oh i must urge you to watch a movie called The Shape of Things, which came out a few years back. It is very much related to this topic.
I would explain more, but it could ruin the whole experience for you. Suffice to say it's very much about performance art, manipulation, ethics, behavior, gender roles and perception.
Is exposing or exploiting artifice or fraud a type of art? Is noodling into how we talk about some topic a common goal of an artist?
An old friend has always said if the artist has to explain their art, then it fails as art.
Your Connecticut corrsepondent here.
I have to say the best part of this is the TV coverage. If scaring the anchor bunnies and blow-drys was the goal, it was almost too easy to predict our local TV response. And it's not so much the content as the breathless, "You're not gonna believe this!", 'extra exclamationpoints on the teleprompter' tone.
My home state is of the most densely populated, yuppie-filled, culture-crammed places in our Union.
But you'd never know it tuning in at 6 and 11. Holding up the mirror to the TV makes us look like a bunch of rubes.
oh i must urge you to watch a movie called The Shape of Things...
Seen it! This project reminded me very much of that movie.
Art is NOT manipulation. It can have that effect but it is not, by its very nature, manipulation.
Holding up the mirror to the TV makes us look like a bunch of rubes.
Well, at least the outrage is legitimate. Nashvillians got in an uproar over this Music Row sculpture because, I kid you not, "the people were nekkid!"
glad you have seen it, too tough to write a brief synopsis without ruining the movie. still i'm pondering my own post about that movie and this particular student project.
Go for it, Joe P. I always like reading what you have to say!
much thanks for you appreciation!
Dog my cats, Beale, I can see you just never went to art school.
Since when did taunting people become art?
At least in my day, when kids were all rebellious, taunting the booshwa-Z was just fine, if not every student’s reason for wanting to be an artist.
And in that we were trying to follow a century (this was the late ’60’s) of art intended, and perceived, to be abrasive. Manet and all. You couldn’t be an artist if you weren’t avant-garde, was the idea. Everything else was just something to fit over and match the sofa. Decoration vs. art, craft vs. art, all that kind of socially stratified levels of culture and suitable ideals.
And continuing to wax pedantic and make myself a nuisance, you could go back from the Venus of Milo a couple more thousand years to the Venus of Willendorf and her multiplicity of kin.
Anyhoo, Ms. Shvarts scored big-time to get national notice that way. She’ll do well, especially if she forgets art and becomes a lobbyist. Depending on whether her sexual preference is suit or boho.
Or maybe fashion. Remember the artist who made a dress out of meat? Only reason Shvsrts got more press is the Yale connection, being the old-money reins-of-power shape-of-things-to-come-because-we-know-better kind of place.
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