[Perdogg]

Rockey VI Thanksgiving week!!

[Mr. Brightside]

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)

[verum ago]

*humming Rocky theme*
not art? What the hell isn't art nowadays?

[Stark_GOP]

"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."
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I've been in that art museum. I would say that some of the pieces inside do not qualify as art. IMHO.

Isn't art suppose to make you think of concepts and ideas?

[Mr. Brightside]

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.

[TX Bluebonnet]

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?

[Darkwolf377]

What a joke. That they've been fighting to have this piece of junk forced on the museum tells me all I need to know. I sure hope they put in a McDonald's in the nearest entry, you know, so they don't look all hoity toity.

That recent "art" has denigrated the history of art shouldn't be an excuse to have a movie prop considered art.

[DemforBush]

Ahhh, I do so love when snooty "arteest" types get their goatees in a knot.

Makes me want to commission a statue of Bob Ross for the museum just to really get their goat. >:D

[familyop]

Is the statue about 5 feet, 6 inches tall, with platform heels and soles? ...and long jerry curls?

[Welsh Rabbit]

"It's not a work of art and ... it doesn't belong there," said Brooker, a professor at Moore College of Art and Design.

Here's some of Moe Brooker's stuff: http://www.sandewebstergallery.com/artists/artists_brooker.html

*yawn... Not too impressive.

[familyop]

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.

[Cincinnatus]

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.

[laotzu]

"What more wonderful a symbol of hard work and dedication is there than Rocky?"

Virtually any American soldier.

[Kirkwood]

"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.

[Socratic]

Check out this link to see some "artistic" expressions of Moe Brooker: http://www.junekellygallery.com/brooker/brooker.htm

That Mr. Brooker is one artiste extrodinaire - just like that precocious child in Junior High.

[gridlock]

I always loved the statue up there, precisely because thousands of people would run up the steps, dance around the statue, and leave without ever going inside. It must have driven the pointy-headed types insane!

Sometimes that's a good thing. Museum curators can be too serious for their own good. Now nobody will come to the top of the steps to disturb their peaceful afternoon naps. How will that make anything better?

[LexBaird]

Rocky's battle to the top "is a concept, it is an idea, and ideas don't need justification in terms of objects."

Gee. Professor, if concepts have no need to be manifested as objects, that kinda puts you out of a job, doesn't it? We'll all just think about a concept, such as "Liberty", "Flight", "Love", or "Motion", and melt down those extraneous chunks produced by Rodin, Brancussi, Calder and Bartholdi.

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

Despite complaints that the statue is piece of kitsch undeserving of display near Renoirs and Monets, the city Art Commission voted 6-2 Wednesday to move the 2,000-pound bronze out of storage and put it on a street-level pedestal near the museum steps.

Gimme a frigging break. If Rocky hadn't made his famous movie run up those stairs, many Joe- and Jane- sixpacks in this country wouldn't have known of the existance museum. There IS no such thing as bad publicity. These snobby art freaks are a hoot.

[goldfinch]

"It's not a work of art and ... " said Brooker, a professor at Moore College of Art and Design.

Of course it's not art. Art is a naked woman dancing with a dead pig. /sarc

[ICU812]

Don't you guys know anything?!
Its not art because it wasn't paid for with tax dollars.