Hundreds of Vietnamese Americans demonstrated Saturday outside a provocative art exhibit in Santa Ana that had featured Communist symbols that protesters claimed mocked their painful experiences as political refugees. [More]I so love hip, artsy Southern California libs.
I remember years back, the modern art museum held an Andy Warhol exhibit, and had plastered banners of his Mao portrait all over town, even hanging from street lamps, which means they had local government endorsement. The section I was driving through was known for its large Jewish community. Matter of fact, the reason we were there was to go to my favorite deli.
I remember at the time wondering if it would have been so enthusiastically supported/ passively accepted had the banners featured Hitler's portrait. Or are some genocidal monsters more acceptable in enlightened society than others?
My favorite interaction with modern artists--and in the interests of full disclosure I deem most of them ridiculous frauds-- is when we took the kids to the LaBrea Tar Pits museum and decided to have lunch at (the now-closed) Johnnie's a block or so down...
In order to get there, we had to pass the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and they were having some kind of local artists' sidewalk exhibit--my wife pushed the stroller with youngest feral son Qusay peacefully slumbering, and I held hands and walked behind with eldest feral son Uday, probably four at the time...
To make a long story short, the kid has always been precocious, to my continued amazement and joy. Anyway, as we walked past the various exhibitors, he decided on his own to size up their work and give on-the-spot critiques.
The wife, who is more sensitive (and an all-around nicer human being) than I am, was properly mortified. Me, I could barely suppress the laughter seeing the reactions as we passed each canvas, the danged munchkin pointing and pronouncing "Good...good...crap...crap...crap..."
Isn't that what art is supposed to do? Give us new ways of exploring truth...?
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LOL! Of course they are full blown Marxist commies.
And everything that they do is to advance that agenda. They have killed off our manufacturing industry and the attacks on the Christian family are relentless. Affermitive Action is nothing more than an attack on the white male to attack the Christian family. These commies want our guns which is a huge road block in putting in the kind of government that they want. Because the kind of government they want armed people will not stand for. So in the time being they are turning out some real hard core monsters in LE as they attack the Second Amendment in courts and both houses of congress. They are getting ready to rule this country with the Iron Marxist Fist. A dream they see about to come true just around the conner.
But it is as likely to be a Marxist future in which religion is required as one in which it is forbidden.
Vietnamese art? Do you know the story of Vu Kim Son? Perhaps the art in question is a celebration of the government power that forces Vu Kim Son to create his art in an unusual manner.
"In Vietnam, he is not allowed to own a firearm, not even a demilled frame of a gun to use as a guide."
People who use the word "allowed" in conjunction with a right to arms are perhaps wishing for Vietnam-style recognition of rights.
Say, didn't the Vietcong irregulars used to have a whole bunch of guns? What happened to those guns? I don't know, and neither can you, because the state controls the people and the flow of information. (So good luck getting accurate crime statistics as well.)
So, a protester waving a current flag of Vietnam (Communist) who is swarmed by an opposing crowd is arrested for "suspicion of fighting in public"? Sounds like suppression of 1st Amendment rights. It works both ways.
If your child was pushed into actually thinking, not just giving off-the-cuff reviews, any artist should be proud. You don't have to like art for it to be successful, but it should somehow expand your horizons.
In defense of artists, most of the good ones (Warhol included) realize most artist geeks are pretentious and miss the point completely. That's why most modern art not about sex is about how stupid or shallow modern art is. Entire movements have been about it. Most people think they should be 'in' and 'get' it. You shouldn't. Good art makes you think. That's it. Popular art just has better marketing.
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