Posted on 09/06/2006 1:41:40 PM PDT by Mr. Brightside
Rockey VI Thanksgiving week!!
Sylvester Stallone, left, portraying movie
character 'Rocky;' and Tommy Morrison , as boxer 'Tommy
Gunn,' reenact a scene from Rocky V under a statue of
Stallone on the Philadelphia Museum of Art's steps in
Philadelphia, in this Jan. 27, 1990, file photo. The
city's Art Commission approved a plan Wednesday, Sept.
6, 2006, to return the statue--currently stored in a
warehouse--of the big-screen boxer to a site near the
steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.(AP Photo/Chris Gardner)
Looks like art to me.
Something about these "artists" that irks me.
If someone showed up at an art festival with a display of dog crap sprinkled with AIDS tainted blood, these people would defend it and complain if it wasn't funded with tax dollars.
Artists really annoy me sometimes. Some guy can put poop in a can and that's art, but a statue of Rocky, That's NOT art. Didn't some pretentious artist try to claim 9/11 was art?
That recent "art" has denigrated the history of art shouldn't be an excuse to have a movie prop considered art.
Makes me want to commission a statue of Bob Ross for the museum just to really get their goat. >:D
That statue is more artistic than many of the things we fund through the NEA.
Is the statue about 5 feet, 6 inches tall, with platform heels and soles? ...and long jerry curls?
It's a vanity piece for a movie star. It's an embarassment that people want it in that place. If it was of the same quality and of George Clooney those backing it here would be completely against it.
Such a statue would be interesting and true to life (in the '50s), if it were wearing a button-down shirt of shiny, synthetic material and in the process of doing the chicken in front of a street corner candy store.
Half of the 'art' that is created is an embarassment. Bookers' own stuff leaves a lot to be desired.
A few years ago I kept driving around and pausing in the circle below the staircase, waiting for my son and his friend to emerge. Numerous people went up and down the stairs. At one point or another EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM raised their fists in triumph over their heads.
As these are presumably the artest of the art fans, the decision is obviously a correct one.
Virtually any American soldier.
"It's not a work of art and ... it doesn't belong there," said Brooker, a professor at Moore College of Art and Design. Rocky's battle to the top "is a concept, it is an idea, and ideas don't need justification in terms of objects."
Corzo suggested that he might resign from the commission over the vote, saying that placing the pugilist near the museum goes against the commission's desire to "raise the standards of the city."
And here we have 2 people who open their mouths and prove to the whole world they are complete fakes.
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