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Thursday, February 10, 2005 - 7:09amSanction this postReply
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Incredible, the Emperor himself is saying "I am naked."

Here is a press release by Aristos editors:
http://www.aristos.org/arisnews/02-07-05.pdf


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Thursday, February 10, 2005 - 7:19amSanction this postReply
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But it MUST be deep because I don't understand it!!

Ugh.

Jason


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Thursday, February 10, 2005 - 2:53amSanction this postReply
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Well, indeed, his remarks are careless and nihilistic, but as one said the art is part of reality and it stands for itself.
As I see it on the pictures, I think it looks great and stands out in a way that I don't want to describe just now.
Though I admit that his comments to this work of art are blasphemic and hurtful (foremost to those artists who still incorporate rational ideas in their works of art), but you don't have to like the persona of the authors to like their works.

I don't like many aspects of the way of life Ayn Rand has chose and how she behaved in the end, but I admire her works and what she brought for me to think about and to use.

So, in my opinion, it is the same with Cristo. You don't have to like him or even think him a good person, but I certainly enjoy the view of his works (which sometimes get human engineers to the limits of the possible and this is interesting and wonderfull).


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Thursday, February 10, 2005 - 4:22amSanction this postReply
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Is building a shrine to your lost wife usefull? Is having a portrait made of your wife by the best painter in the whole world usefull? In other words, is the Taj Mahal usefull, does the Mona Lisa have a practical purpose?

I don't know what the effect of Christo's art wil be. Maybe it will create an interesting view of central park, maybe it will ruin the view. Still it's a lot of money for a tempory construction. It seems more elaborate then to wrap up buildings like he used to do.

In Brussels they had to take out the asbestos out of the main building of the EC. The whole building was wrapped in some shiny white material, not as an art expression but to prevent asbestos from leaking out. For some strange reason this wasn't considered art, not even when someone had the idea to project huge advertisments on it.


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