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MountainLaurel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-02-06 12:58 PM
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Artless (controversial works pulled from student art show)
Addie Green wasn't looking to blow anyone's mind. She wasn't looking for a fight, or to create a tempest.
She was seeking to examine, even challenge, human biases. And she seems to have succeeded.

This year, Green, a senior at Fountain Valley School, created an enormous painting; it is the first of 10 in a series as part of her advanced art program at the prominent private school. The painting, called "Dismantled Stereotype," is 5 feet tall and 4 feet wide, and shows a high-school football player standing in front of a pickup truck.

"You're assaulted with this image, that this is a very large, obvious stereotype," Green says. "You make assumptions about this person, but the more you look at the piece, the more you notice something to throw off the assumption."

On the truck is a football-shaped bumper sticker, maybe 3 inches wide, in the colors of the rainbow.

http://www.csindy.com/csindy/2006-05-25/cover.html

This was one of four pieces pulled from the show, in Colorado Springs. Shocked, anyone?

*crickets*

:mad:
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porphyrian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-02-06 01:01 PM
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1. Isn't Boulder just about the only liberal place in Colorado? - n/t
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tridim Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-02-06 01:05 PM
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3. Denver is very liberal as well
Colorado is a solidly blue state now.
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Tesha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-02-06 01:07 PM
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5. "Blue" Colorado just behaves completely red, ehh? (NT)
Edited on Fri Jun-02-06 01:11 PM by Tesha
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tridim Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-02-06 01:21 PM
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14. I don't even consider Colorado Springs part of Colorado
It's an embarrassment.
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distantearlywarning Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-02-06 02:32 PM
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18. I lived there once
Hell on earth. It doesn't surprise me at all that this happened in the Springs.
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Tesha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-02-06 01:07 PM
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4. Also, Aspen, when it's time for Sundance. (NT)
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sinkingfeeling Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-02-06 01:04 PM
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2. That is absolutely sickening to read. What the hell is wrong with that
school board? Oh, Colorado Springs....home of USAF....isn't that where the Air Force is force-feeding religion (fundie, of course) down the throats of cadets?
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Tesha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-02-06 01:09 PM
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7. Colorado Springs, home of the USAF, Nuclear Armageddon, and...
Edited on Fri Jun-02-06 01:10 PM by Tesha
Colorado Springs, home of the USAF, Nuclear Armageddon, and
every "Christian" Recich-Wing nutjob organization known to
America.

A fine place.

A lesbian couple I'm friends with finally decided to leave
there when the fundies firebombed their house. At that point,
they decided their personal safety and the safety of their
two kids trumped any further need to stay in the Springs.

Tesha
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donco6 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-02-06 01:09 PM
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8. Yes.
The whole area is a blight on this lovely state.
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MountainLaurel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-02-06 01:12 PM
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9. CS is also home
To "Dr" James Dobson and the Focus on the Family complex.
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donco6 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-02-06 01:09 PM
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6. "Appropriate" art is useless art.
If art isn't making you think or challenging your presuppositions, it's just a sofa painting. Who cares? We can get one of those at the mall for $5 on any Sunday.

These people are . . . I can't even think of a word.
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saltpoint Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-02-06 01:15 PM
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10. Ms. Green is exhibiting her work because she's an artist.
And she ruffled some staid feathers with her brains and talent.

When an artist has done that, she's done her job.

Bravo for Ms. Green, and long may she run.
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BrklynLiberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-02-06 01:16 PM
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11. Sounds like those people would have done well in the Salem witch trials.
What morans!!!!1111
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China_cat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-02-06 01:18 PM
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12. Good Grief
"...maintains that the judges who banned the artwork were only following D-11's rules that prohibit controversial subject matter ..."

Isn't ART supposed to be controversial? To make you feel something (if only nausea)? How can they call it an art show?
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Tesha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-02-06 02:28 PM
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17. Elvis on velvet. Washington crossing the Delaware. Bush astride a
Elvis on velvet.Cute doggies playing poker. Washington crossing
the Delaware. Bush astride a mighty stead smiting towelheads.
You know the types of art that are "acceptable".

Tesha
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ThomCat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-02-06 01:18 PM
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13. So, any reference to "alternative lifestyles" are banned.
Nice. We're offically not allowed to exist.
:grr:

What message does this give to GLBTs in that school system?
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Craig3410 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-02-06 01:26 PM
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15. Someone on DU should buy those paintings
for a whole lot of money.

Sort of a "fuck you" to the art censors. :D
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Mist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-02-06 02:19 PM
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16. Reminiscent of Goebbels' "Degenerate Art" show--as the Nazis were
Edited on Fri Jun-02-06 02:20 PM by lulu in NC
consolidating power after 1933, Goebbels declared many artists "degenerate" (Grosz, Kandinsky, among others). The "degenerate" paintings were moved out of museums and into an obscure gallery in a warehouse part of Berlin. Result: the museums hosting "correct" art were nearly empty, and the lines ran out of the obscure gallery and down the street to see the "degenerate" art. Goebbels had to call the whole thing off out of embarrassment.
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