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Monday, February 23 2004More Scandanavian 'creativity'First, there was the Swedish 'Art' Outrage. Now, from Norway: The owner of an art gallery in Oslo has removed a painting from an exhibit aimed at fighting anti-Semitism, after the Israeli ambassador in Norway complained about the swastika in the words "Israel" and "USA":
The artist, Chris Reddy, is "furious": He defends his painting...Reddy countered that it's "alarming" the ambassador "is using the fascists' own tool: censorship." He claims his art challenged the most important source of conflict in the world, nationalism, adding that "totalitarian and exteme regimes can't tolerate criticism."... He has called himself a "political artist," whose work was once described in newspaper Dagsavisen as a cross between "cartooning, graffiti and Picasso." Picasso? To our eyes, it just looks disturbingly close to this, from a rally in San Francisco last year:
Some responses from the blogosphere: to be fair to Chris, if you look at this painting closely and in the right light it really is a powerful work that challenges conventional thinking -- if by "closely" I mean "from across the room," by "right light" I mean "during a power outage," and by "conventional thinking" I mean "if you've been lobotomized." There are two things that come to mind. First, that the work is horrendously bad aesthetically...The young people who produced this "art" probably do not consider it anti-Semitic, but only anti-Zionist or anti-imperialist or some such. To them, too, Auschwitz is ancient history--liberated over fifty years ago.
TrackBackTrackBack URL for this entry: Listed below are links to weblogs that reference More Scandanavian 'creativity': CommentsIt's a laugh to see these sleezy people try to get their agenda made public by claiming to be artist. Why dont someone put Crap on a stick and hold it up and say this depicts the Leader of the Palastinean leaders and their cause. Now that would be art!!! The "S" letters turned into a swastika is interesting in light of a recent historic discovery by the journalist Rex Curry that the swastika was sometimes used to represent intertwined "S" letters for "Socialism" under the National Socialist German Workers' Party. http://rexcurry.net/swastikanews.html Post a comment[Comments are held for approval before appearing.]
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