"Art"-its in the eye of the beholder
Okay, so today is just a vent about this piece of "art" that the University of Akron decided it just had to have.
This artwork piece is going to be 275 feet long and 3 feet high. It is currently a "work in progress". Part of it has been put up going down the hallway in Simmons Hall which is the administrative building. This building has no classrooms, but the majority of the full time and part time staff. This is also the ONLY building on campus that any parents of students or possible students will see the inside of (due to financial aid, admissions, orientation, that sort of stuff being housed in the building). So, they decided to put up this painting type thing. You have to see it to fully get it and then when you do see it, you feel like you are dirty and need to shower (I'll explain). This painting is something that you would be embarrassed to look at with your kids, parents, grandparent, even spouse maybe!
This morbid painting is full of colors and globs of silicon just kinda thrown on it. But there is a point. An obvious point to this $139,000 piece of art (the details on who paid for it are still a bit sketchy). It is said to be the journey of a college student or some b-s like that. Well, maybe it is your college journey if you are a porno watching sex fiend who gets hit by a train. Oh yeah, that's what I said. When a friend and I were looking at this thing yesterday she pointed out 2 instances where a female was performing oral sex on a male. Now these weren't obvious and huge, but they definitely were there if you looked at it. The "artist" tried to be abstract and blend it in but did a poor tasteless job for the most part. There is also a scene where you can see the outline of a female body from below the chest down with her legs spread (she's standing). It clearly shows her instestine and other internal body parts (like she was cut open all the way down the front and her insides exposed) then at her crotch there is barbed wire in a penis looking shape coming out (or maybe going in) of her. SICK!
And I have to work in this building.
There is also a scene that looks like a train on tracks then all of a sudden the train ends, there's a break in the track and big red blobs of silicon all over. Ummm, did someone just get hit by that train, because that looks like a lot of blood and body parts. Not to mention the fish net hose, grappling hook, penis shaped all over and the obvious cannot be mistaken for anything else vagina that is at eye level in one spot. (kinda like when in "Everybody Loves Raymond" when his mom made a sculpture and all the guys couldn't look away until Deborah told them it looked like a female body part-yeah, except this is obvious and you can definitely tell what it is without being told.) The painting makes me feel yucky. I don' t want to be subjected to sex (and hard core in some of the scenes) when I am trying to work and trying to show people who might want to send their child to this school around campus. There was even an article in the Akron Beacon Journal about it. The artist is supposed to come in and "fix" certain parts. Well, I think his mind needs to be "fixed". Just because it is an extremely liberal campus does not mean that the adult full time staff want to look at porn everyday when they are at work. And did I mention this thing makes the entire first floor of the building smell! The silicon stuff he used stinks so bad you can't even breath.
Oh, and we were informed that Channel 19 News was in on Tuesday to do a segment on it. Nice.
Well, I just had to complain about that. It is absolutely horrid (I use that word a lot to describe things). I want to puke and feel so naughty after just looking at it.
PS> The official opinion of the Office of Admissions (where I work) on this piece is "no comment". So, that's what I conclude with. I have "no comment". But please give me yours. And if you are ever in the area (without children under the age of 21 because it is completely inappropriate for them) take a look at it.
This artwork piece is going to be 275 feet long and 3 feet high. It is currently a "work in progress". Part of it has been put up going down the hallway in Simmons Hall which is the administrative building. This building has no classrooms, but the majority of the full time and part time staff. This is also the ONLY building on campus that any parents of students or possible students will see the inside of (due to financial aid, admissions, orientation, that sort of stuff being housed in the building). So, they decided to put up this painting type thing. You have to see it to fully get it and then when you do see it, you feel like you are dirty and need to shower (I'll explain). This painting is something that you would be embarrassed to look at with your kids, parents, grandparent, even spouse maybe!
This morbid painting is full of colors and globs of silicon just kinda thrown on it. But there is a point. An obvious point to this $139,000 piece of art (the details on who paid for it are still a bit sketchy). It is said to be the journey of a college student or some b-s like that. Well, maybe it is your college journey if you are a porno watching sex fiend who gets hit by a train. Oh yeah, that's what I said. When a friend and I were looking at this thing yesterday she pointed out 2 instances where a female was performing oral sex on a male. Now these weren't obvious and huge, but they definitely were there if you looked at it. The "artist" tried to be abstract and blend it in but did a poor tasteless job for the most part. There is also a scene where you can see the outline of a female body from below the chest down with her legs spread (she's standing). It clearly shows her instestine and other internal body parts (like she was cut open all the way down the front and her insides exposed) then at her crotch there is barbed wire in a penis looking shape coming out (or maybe going in) of her. SICK!
And I have to work in this building.
There is also a scene that looks like a train on tracks then all of a sudden the train ends, there's a break in the track and big red blobs of silicon all over. Ummm, did someone just get hit by that train, because that looks like a lot of blood and body parts. Not to mention the fish net hose, grappling hook, penis shaped all over and the obvious cannot be mistaken for anything else vagina that is at eye level in one spot. (kinda like when in "Everybody Loves Raymond" when his mom made a sculpture and all the guys couldn't look away until Deborah told them it looked like a female body part-yeah, except this is obvious and you can definitely tell what it is without being told.) The painting makes me feel yucky. I don' t want to be subjected to sex (and hard core in some of the scenes) when I am trying to work and trying to show people who might want to send their child to this school around campus. There was even an article in the Akron Beacon Journal about it. The artist is supposed to come in and "fix" certain parts. Well, I think his mind needs to be "fixed". Just because it is an extremely liberal campus does not mean that the adult full time staff want to look at porn everyday when they are at work. And did I mention this thing makes the entire first floor of the building smell! The silicon stuff he used stinks so bad you can't even breath.
Oh, and we were informed that Channel 19 News was in on Tuesday to do a segment on it. Nice.
Well, I just had to complain about that. It is absolutely horrid (I use that word a lot to describe things). I want to puke and feel so naughty after just looking at it.
PS> The official opinion of the Office of Admissions (where I work) on this piece is "no comment". So, that's what I conclude with. I have "no comment". But please give me yours. And if you are ever in the area (without children under the age of 21 because it is completely inappropriate for them) take a look at it.
1 Comments:
At 3:31 PM, Stephanie Appleton said…
nice tribute to higher education!
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