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Miami Artist to Fix Spellings on Library Mural, but Defends Work
AP/TBO ^ | 10/06/04

Posted on 10/06/2004 7:24:40 PM PDT by Nasty McPhilthy

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To: Nasty McPhilthy

Oh, this is rich. LOL
I doubt if this crap, er, art is even fit to have Michelangelo's name anywhere near it. Most modern 'art' sucks.


61 posted on 10/06/2004 9:14:53 PM PDT by dougherty (I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free. - Michelangelo)
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To: Nasty McPhilthy

I'd bet this woman has spent very little time in libraries. Or school.


62 posted on 10/06/2004 9:15:58 PM PDT by Bonaparte (twisting slowly, slowly in the wind...)
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To: Nasty McPhilthy

I don't unersnd why everione is so upsit about some litle misspellings. After all, I am sure that the artiest graduatid from one of our fine pubilic skools and went on to earn at leest a bachelers degree or maybe evin a docterate degree in one of our fine univercities. And as to the libary, they comissined the work so they were responcible for making sure that everithing was okay. But, purhaps the libarian went to the same skool as the artist and lernt how to spell the names the same weigh. No matter, If some smart alleck didn't make such a big point of it then nobuddy would have notised anyway. Who does that dumm idiut think he is for standing out in the krowd and telling everyone that thair spelling is wrong? He should shut up and blend in like the other mindliss masses of the inteligencia eeleet.


63 posted on 10/06/2004 9:20:14 PM PDT by X180A
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To: ocr1
"...$46K+ for mediocre art."

Totally insane.

They could have had the kids in that community collaborate on a ceramic mural for nothing. It most likely would have been better than this overly priced monument to illiteracy. But dragging in a third-rater from another part of the country? Can you say, "neptoism"?

64 posted on 10/06/2004 9:29:17 PM PDT by Bonaparte (twisting slowly, slowly in the wind...)
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To: ocr1
Can you say, "neptoism"?

Neither can I, LOL!

How about "nepotism"?

65 posted on 10/06/2004 9:30:47 PM PDT by Bonaparte (twisting slowly, slowly in the wind...)
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To: Bonaparte

Your both rong! It's spelled "nebotoisiam". Wow waht a pak of idiuts!


66 posted on 10/06/2004 9:32:40 PM PDT by X180A
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To: Bonaparte

And bye the whey, it's spelled Muriel.


67 posted on 10/06/2004 9:34:38 PM PDT by X180A
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To: X180A

you guys sley me!


68 posted on 10/06/2004 9:39:45 PM PDT by Nasty McPhilthy (Those who beat their swords into plow shears….will plow for those who don’t.)
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To: garyhope
A large portion of our population hate this country!

Socialism and disrespect of the host go hand in hand. To rationalize socialism they first cultivate a disrespect for their mark.

69 posted on 10/06/2004 9:53:52 PM PDT by Reeses
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To: Nasty McPhilthy

You'd think they'd get a local artist, or at least someone from California. HEY, the State of California outsourced its work.


70 posted on 10/06/2004 9:57:17 PM PDT by Hildy (The really great men are always simple and true)
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To: yankeedame

LOL!


71 posted on 10/06/2004 9:58:59 PM PDT by avenir
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To: avenir

More bad spellings!!!

Everyone knows it's Callee-4-knee-aahh. Just ask the governor.


72 posted on 10/06/2004 10:05:20 PM PDT by X180A
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To: Nasty McPhilthy
The mistakes wouldn't even register with a true artisan, Alquilar said.

"The people that are into humanities, and are into Blake's concept of enlightenment, they are not looking at the words," she said. "In their mind the words register correctly."


pfffffft! What hogwash. She's so enlightened that her mind works on a level we cannot attain, one where words and ideas are fluid.

I'll say it again: pfffffft! She should be fixing it for free.
73 posted on 10/06/2004 10:28:59 PM PDT by kenth (Tucking tail and running is not an exit strategy, it's cowardice and surrender.)
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To: Lockbar
I feel comfortable in saying her work is amateurish junk.

Good, it isn't just me and I don't even know a Monet from a Manet.

74 posted on 10/06/2004 10:47:23 PM PDT by Eagle Eye (Hey! They've got lettuce today. Oops, that's not lettuce...)
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To: Nasty McPhilthy

Livermore is the same city where in the 70's they erected a totem pole in another park. They buried the lower 4 feet in the ground. The artist was irate and put a curse on the sewer system. At the same time the couldn't remember where they had buried a time capsule in 1967. It was eventualy found a few feet from the pole when they dug it out to re-set it!


75 posted on 10/06/2004 10:48:51 PM PDT by Wacka
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To: Flashman_at_the_charge
There are grammatical errors on her homepage.

Words are not this woman's forte. And from what I can see at her website, her art is no great shakes either.

76 posted on 10/06/2004 11:24:52 PM PDT by beckett
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To: BenLurkin
She should fix it for free.

Unless, of course, the library gave her the wrong spellings of the names.

77 posted on 10/06/2004 11:29:37 PM PDT by connectthedots
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To: Nasty McPhilthy

I guess that she made a hugh mistake.


78 posted on 10/06/2004 11:31:08 PM PDT by Redcloak (Vikings plundered my last tag line.)
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To: Nasty McPhilthy

"The mistakes wouldn't even register with a true artisan, Alquilar said."

What a stoopid be-otch!


79 posted on 10/06/2004 11:43:37 PM PDT by antceecee (God Bless President Bush. FOUR MORE YEARS!)
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To: Nasty McPhilthy

What an f'in moron. So misspellings are now a sign of artistic integrity? And noticing, and objecting to, misspellings are a sign of sensitivity and depth? Up is down. Hate is love. We have always been at war with East Asia. And this, readers, is elitist egalitarianism (or vice versa).


80 posted on 10/06/2004 11:49:50 PM PDT by Calico Cat (the simplest solution is usually the correct one)
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