Digital BW, The Print

Hopefully art will continue to strike multiple "sour chords" and challenge 
existing beliefs.  SCB


From: mh@...
Reply-To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [Digital BW] ART-what is it?
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 15:28:32 -0000

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "Tyler Boley" <tyler@t...>
wrote:
 > --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., SKID Photography <skid@b...>
 > wrote:
 > snip...
 > The exhibit is not that
 > > different from the famous DaVinci drawings in his sketch books.  He
 > broke into morgues and made detailed
 > > drawings of essentially filleted people parts and how the human body
 > was put together.
 >
 > Harvey, I agree with everything you said in general. But somehow,
 > personally, I feel this particular show is different than the
 > DaVincis, I can't articulate why.
 > Aren't you the one who said I don't know what art is, but I know it
 > when I see it?

I think I can answer this.  There is a difference between sketching
something in a natural environment (if you can consider the morgue
natural) and turning a human body into a plastic exhibit, put in
unnatural positions for all eternity, for the purpose of edutainment.
This strikes a sour chord with most people's upbringing (especially
when it comes to religion)

But that must be weighed against one's own right to do what they want
with their body and our own responsibility to protect their wishes. I
personally think that displaying them in slightly amusing poses or with
muscles hanging out in unnatural ways ("as if in the wind") is just
past where the line should have been drawn.

One must consider two things;  intent of the creators/participants and
any particular consequences. I think the intent is okay (I don't think
they are doing it for fun or sensationalism) but I hope the next person
that tries something like that doesn't take it further.

-mh





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