Posted on 10/07/2004 2:23:02 PM PDT by Southside_Chicago_Republican
LIVERMORE, Calif. - It didn't take a nuclear physicist to realize changes were needed after a $40,000 ceramic mural was unveiled outside the city's new library and everyone could see the misspelled names of Einstein, Shakespeare, Vincent Van Gogh, Michelangelo and seven other historical figures.
"Our library director is very frustrated that she has this lovely new library and it has all these misspellings in front," said city councilwoman Lorraine Dietrich, one of three council members who voted Monday to authorize paying another $6,000, plus expenses, to fly the artist up from Miami to fix the errors.
Reached at her Miami studio Wednesday by The Associated Press, Maria Alquilar said she was willing to fix the brightly colored 16-foot-wide circular work, but offered no apologizes for the 11 misspellings among the 175 names.
"The importance of this work is that it is supposed to unite people," Alquilar said. "They are denigrating my work and the purpose of this work."
Alquilar said it took her quite a bit of her own time and money to create and install the work, and that it sat idle at her Santa Cruz studio for two years until the city cleared the way for its installation.
There were plenty of people around during the installation who could and should have seen the missing and misplaced letters, she said. "Even though I was on my hands and knees laying the installation out, I didn't see it," she said.
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."
The height of elitism: she makes a major mistake and it's everyone else's fault.
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...
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...
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".
Could be "Jacques Pierre", maker of cheese-stained white surrender flags.
LOL!!! Can't run a mural through SPELLCHECK!
I was thinking commission check. And what if they misspelled $6,000.00, "Six Hundred Dollars and no/sense"?
Now wait up I seen the pitcha an' I do believe (maseff bein' Hispanic) 'Eistein' is correctly spelled by way of Chicanic Phonix.
How may guesses do I get?
The real stuff is pretty cool.
Rev. Howard Finster is one of my favorites, because I actually knew him. He was an amazing man.
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>
A very loud "B.S."! What a rationalization from a clearly arrogant "artiste" who can't spell.
BWAAHAHAHA!!
GOOD ONE!
No, Alquilar, it's supposed to untie them. Isn't that the same thing?
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.
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Gosh, Maria, maybe it, you know, like...sucks? |
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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