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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: WMCoolmon on April 01, 2007, 02:16:44 am
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http://www.postchronicle.com/news/original/article_21271642.shtml
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:lol:
Cavallaro's work, entitled "My Sweet Lord" is a 6 foot tall, anatomically correct sculpture of Jesus Christ in milk chocolate.
I love that description.
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I'd say what really offends is that kind of thing being called art.
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It's about time that art started appealing to the tongue as well as to the eyes.
What? :nervous:
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I don't really think Jesus would mind having a statue made for him out of chocolate...
I sure wouldn't... I mean, I wouldn't want to eat parts of it, but yeah...
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I suppose there has to be a branch of Art which is designed purely to cause 'offence'. That doesn't mean it is a bad thing, it means it promotes discussion. A screwed up ball of paper is art by definition, since it promotes discussion. Of course, my half of the discussion would be '....but it's a screwed up piece of paper' for about 8 times in a row, but at least a discussion would take place.
Same for this I guess, it doesn't offend me, but that's no guideline to go by. It promotes the question, 'What was the artist trying to say here, is it something about Jesus or Christianity? Is it a political statement towards Christianity remembering its gentle roots, or a religious one about commercialisation?'. I actually think it's far more interesting than a screwed up piece of paper.
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I'd say what really offends is that kind of thing being called art.
It is art though. Better than a lot of stuff, too.
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I think people need to take art less seriously...
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Yeah, they should(looks at anime fans>_><_<>_>)
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It is art though. Better than a lot of stuff, too.
Yes, stuff like covering a whole hotel room with melted cheese, oh, wait. :P
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It's Sacrilicious!
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It's Sacrilicious!
:lol:
I wonder what they used for the blood.
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It is art though. Better than a lot of stuff, too.
Yes, stuff like covering a whole hotel room with melted cheese, oh, wait. :P
You took the bait hook line and sinker.
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I just had to do it... :lol: And my point still stands.
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I just had to do it... :lol: And my point still stands.
Ok let's do it.
What is art? Serious question. What do you, personally, mean by art?
(Baby don't hurt me, don't hurt me, no more)
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IMO art it would be an open term but I never really gave it much thought (so I dont really know how to say it well), to me it would be something that stimulates you to think and wich has something to demonstrate (although that something may vary wich each person's view).
Still I wouldnt consider covering a room full of cheese/making a chocolate Jesus to be art because simply I cant see the point, they would be hard to do but pointless.
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IMO art it would be an open term but I never really gave it much thought (so I dont really know how to say it well), to me it would be something that stimulates you to think and wich has something to demonstrate (although that something may vary wich each person's view).
Still I wouldnt consider covering a room full of cheese/making a chocolate Jesus to be art because simply I cant see the point, they would be hard to do but pointless.
Wouldn't this mean that a work that makes you say "it's not art" is actually meta-art, because it forces you to actively think about just what art is and make your own definition of the word?
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IMHO, people are offended way too easily these days. I mean, holy crap!! Get a spine!!
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Wouldn't this mean that a work that makes you say "it's not art" is actually meta-art, because it forces you to actively think about just what art is and make your own definition of the word?
No, because what lead to the discussion of what is art was wether or not that work is offensive, not the work itself.
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Wouldn't this mean that a work that makes you say "it's not art" is actually meta-art, because it forces you to actively think about just what art is and make your own definition of the word?
No, because what lead to the discussion of what is art was wether or not that work is offensive, not the work itself.
But you said I'd say what really offends is that kind of thing being called art.
I'm not keeping up.
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Wouldn't this mean that a work that makes you say "it's not art" is actually meta-art, because it forces you to actively think about just what art is and make your own definition of the word?
No, because what lead to the discussion of what is art was wether or not that work is offensive, not the work itself.
But you said I'd say what really offends is that kind of thing being called art.
I'm not keeping up.
Yes, I said that because I dont consider this ''work'' to be art.