Posted on 01/10/2012 12:50:46 PM PST by mojito
“The Gehry design was chosen in a closed competition, which itself suggests that the fix was in for Frank Gehry from the beginning. Having seen his design for a new wing of the Corcoran Gallery of Art go unrealized, Gehry and his acolytes at the General Services Administration now seem determined to get a Gehry into monumental Washington, even if, in the process, they distort history with another postmodernist confection that speaks to no one outside their small, gnostic sect.”
This seems like an appropriate place to ask if anyone here has seen the Pentagon 911 memorial, and what you thought of it?
What the hell is that?
I have to wonder sometimes, when I look at this stuff, if the problem isn’t that no one living today has the artistic talent and training to actually do a statue that looks like a human being. We have been training these people in these loopy art colleges for years that whatever they come up with is art. We have ended up with “artists” who are really not artists; but, almost anti-artists.
Now that is a monument...
A Gehry 'masterpiece' described at post #7.
At first it is Ghastly, but like the Vietnam Memorial, it will soon become un-ghastly. Growing up under Ike, I would prefer a statue as large as the Hussein one that was torn down in Baghdad. It could be up on a pedestal, wearing his Ike jacket uniform, and have a gulf club in one hand and a fishing pole in the other and I would still like it. My greatest fear of ghastly is that one day we might find Obama on Mt Rushmore next to Jimmah Carter.
PS.....He’s the only President in my time, that brings tears to my eyes when I see pictures of him.
Oh, dear. Whoever commissioned Frank Gehry should lose their job. They probably tried to get Christo, but he died on ‘em.
(I assume the dead trees represent Europe after Eisenhower bombed the crap out of it)
“”The “memorial benches” look like modernistic diving boards. How does this memorialize 911?””
That never made any sense to me either; no more than the chairs that are in the Oklahoma city memorial. And I don’t think it has anything to do with us not appreciating art. We see things straight forward - not with twisted minds. Of course, we can’t be perceived as intelligent as the artists are either. OK by me.
Eisenhower’s family have objected to this design for years and have been trying to get it halted ... or altered.
That was poison-dripping sarcasm, BTW.
“Plans call for Ike to be memorialized in sculpture as a barefoot farmboy on the Great Plains: not the great wartime leader; not the soldier-diplomat; not the chief executive of the United States who presided over eight years of peace and prosperity.”
Frankly, the entire setting of the memorial is crap and should be scrapped.
However, there’s something beautiful about the idea having the statue of him as a child on the Great Plains. It would really speak to that well-honed simple American strength that was so prevalent in small town America.
Were it properly done, I think it’d be an amazing and powerful tribute to Eisenhower: evoking the image of the child to highlight the greatness that would follow.
This must be where President Reagan made one of his D-Day memorial speeches? Great speech!!!
I literally live a block from that.
Don’t even get me started.
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