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$40,000 Library Mural Misspells Names
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| October 7, 2004
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Posted on 10/07/2004 2:23:02 PM PDT by Southside_Chicago_Republican
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To: Southside_Chicago_Republican
They are denigrating my work and the purpose of this work."The height of elitism: she makes a major mistake and it's everyone else's fault.
To: Ichneumon
Someone posted a picture of a deer on a thread about Buckhead's spotting of the CBS forgery and I couldn't help but comment because the artist had given it a horse's mane. Another biggie is when people depict animals and they have the joints of the legs bent in impossible ways. Well, actually they're possible if you break the legs and reposition them...
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posted on
10/07/2004 7:39:15 PM PDT
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piasa
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To: Ichneumon
Someone posted a picture of a deer on a thread about Buckhead's spotting of the CBS forgery and I couldn't help but comment because the artist had given it a horse's mane. Another biggie is when people depict animals and they have the joints of the legs bent in impossible ways. Well, actually they're possible if you break the legs and reposition them...
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posted on
10/07/2004 7:39:18 PM PDT
by
piasa
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To: Southside_Chicago_Republican
Michael Savage was positively apopletic in talking about this tonight on his radio show. My favorite detail was that she spelled Einstein as "Eistein", w/o the "n". A true illiterate, yet she virtually claims immunity from mistakes, as if just pointing out her errors was a mild form of a "hate crime".
To: supercat
Why? The picture doesn't bear much resemblence to playwright and poet William Shakespeare, so perhaps it's supposed to be a picture of Fred Shakespere, a maker of frozen drinks. Could be "Jacques Pierre", maker of cheese-stained white surrender flags.
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posted on
10/07/2004 7:43:18 PM PDT
by
FreedomCalls
(It's the "Statue of Liberty," not the "Statue of Security.")
To: kaehurowing
LOL!!! Can't run a mural through SPELLCHECK!
To: bjmorris
I would love to have seen this artists response if they had misspelled her name in the promotional pieces. I was thinking commission check. And what if they misspelled $6,000.00, "Six Hundred Dollars and no/sense"?
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posted on
10/07/2004 7:46:14 PM PDT
by
Lonesome in Massachussets
(NYT Headline: "The Protocols of the Learned Elders of CBS", Fake But Accurate, Experts Say)
To: Southside_Chicago_Republican
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posted on
10/07/2004 7:49:00 PM PDT
by
kcvl
To: Southside_Chicago_Republican
Now wait up I seen the pitcha an' I do believe (maseff bein' Hispanic) 'Eistein' is correctly spelled by way of Chicanic Phonix.
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posted on
10/07/2004 7:57:27 PM PDT
by
Calusa
(One Nation Gone Under.)
To: okie01
POP QUIZ!!! For which party will Maria Alquilar vote? How may guesses do I get?
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posted on
10/07/2004 8:02:40 PM PDT
by
Calusa
(One Nation Gone Under.)
To: dennisw
Nothing worse than a second or third-rate artist trying to IMITATE folk art.
The real stuff is pretty cool.
Rev. Howard Finster is one of my favorites, because I actually knew him. He was an amazing man.
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10/07/2004 8:09:28 PM PDT
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AnAmericanMother
(. . . Ministrix of ye Chace (recess appointment), TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary . . .)
To: Veto!
cat in the hot hehe...
Well, I can use all the business I can get if your editors would like to try out a conservative artist. I do more than just murals.
</shameless self-promotion>
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10/07/2004 8:13:36 PM PDT
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piasa
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To: Southside_Chicago_Republican
The mistakes wouldn't even register with a true artisan, Alquilar said. A very loud "B.S."! What a rationalization from a clearly arrogant "artiste" who can't spell.
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posted on
10/07/2004 8:36:07 PM PDT
by
NotJustAnotherPrettyFace
(Michael <a href = "http://www.michaelmoore.com/" title="Miserable Failure">"Miserable Failure"</a>)
To: Southside_Chicago_Republican
...ol' Eistein hisself!BWAAHAHAHA!!
GOOD ONE!
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posted on
10/07/2004 8:50:38 PM PDT
by
badgerlandjim
(Hillary Clinton is to politics as Helen Thomas is to beauty)
To: Southside_Chicago_Republican
"The importance of this work is that it is supposed to unite people," Alquilar said. No, Alquilar, it's supposed to untie them. Isn't that the same thing?
To: Mach9
No one will admit that the reason she botched the spellings is, she has never seen the names in print. Reading about the giants of Western Civ is not high on the agenda of illiterate affirmative-action hires.
To: piasa
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posted on
10/08/2004 4:06:06 AM PDT
by
snopercod
( 'Be in good health our leaders, the most leading leaders in all the world!')
To: Southside_Chicago_Republican
''Quite frankly, I'm really upset about this,'' Alquilar said. ''Nobody at the library has said what a great work it is.''
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Gosh, Maria, maybe it, you know, like...sucks? |
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posted on
10/08/2004 2:39:36 PM PDT
by
Fintan
(Oh...Am I supposed to read the article???)
To: piasa
What's so annoying about her reaction is her comment that the names were merely signposts meant to inspire conversation so it didn't matter if they spelled incorrectly.
That is the epitome of why so many people dislike most modern art. When the artist is told their work is pure crap, their reaction is: well, it doesn't matter if it's good or not, as long as we're talking about it.
WRONG!! If you are trying to convey a message and in that message you attempt to paint a flower to serve as a symbol but it looks like a firecracker that has gone off, then the artist must assume his message has not been communicated. And the audience can never trust what they believe to be the artist's message...until the artist proves they have control over the medium. Words are part of the communication medium she chose. Spelling is important and is one of the foundations upon which artist/writer-audience trust is built.
Tom Wolfe in "The Painted Word" couldn't have been more correct.
To: AnAmericanMother
Rev. Howard Finster is one of my favorites, because I actually knew him. He was an amazing man.......
You get around a lot. I know his art from the REM albums of the middle 1980s which were their best. REM were big Finster boosters.
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posted on
10/08/2004 4:38:01 PM PDT
by
dennisw
(Gd is against Amelek for all generations.)
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