[lit-ideas] Re: Art and the Wall

> [Original Message]
> From: Robert Paul <robert.paul@xxxxxxxx>
> To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: 8/30/2005 11:22:44 PM
> Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Art and the Wall
>
>
> Andy Amago wrote:
>
> > Isn't this recapping what I said earlier, that art is beautiful as long
as
> > it agrees with our agenda?  If it doesn't, it gets the old heave ho.
>
> I don't think so. You linked the removal of Diego's work to 
> Rockefeller's not finding it beautiful ('It was not beautiful to 
> Rockefeller.') Not finding something beautiful and finding it 
> politically or ideologically embarrassing are two different things.
> There is no evidence that JDR was displeased with its form, as opposed 
> to its content.
>


It doesn't matter if the content is pleasing if the thing winds up
intentionally being thrown into the fireplace.


>
> I wrote:
>
> >>I wonder if Andy considers the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, or
ceilings 
> >>by e.g. Tiepolo,?not to mention the 'cave paintings' at such sites as 
> >>Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc, 'graffiti.'
>
> He replied.
>
> > I said art on the outside of buildings looks like graffiti to me.
>
> What you wrote was:
>
> 'Diego Rivera's art was not beautiful to Rockefeller.  I personally 
> think "art" on building walls looks like graffiti.'
>
> The proximity of these two sentences suggested to me that you believed 
> that Diego's Rockefeller mural was painted somewhere on an outside wall 
> of Rockefeller Center. Forgive me.
>


My fault for sloppy writing.  Maybe the hurricane got to me too.


Andy Amago





> Robert Paul
> Reed College
>
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