PopeWatch: Modern Art
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
Jack be nimble,
Jack be quick,
Jack go under limbo stick.
Schlock has a place. It’s found in garage sales.
The Vatican will present this…
How embarrassing.
Well…it very possible that itreflects the spirit of some in Rome.
I’ll give them that.
“Block heads”. It’s perfect.
Now someone do “Meatballs” for next year
When you’ve thrown Truth, Goodness and Beauty under the bus for progressivism/modernism, this is what’s left, I suppose.
Michelangelo would be in tears about now.
I bet the “artist” was a big fan of Rockem Sockem Robots
This rubbish has been an ongoing phenomenon since the end of the 1st World War. Not a brass farthing of public money should go to any art museum or art gallery in these United States.
Clearly, we should shun sophistication.
Pachapapas.
Nowhere near as bad as his continued promotion of Rapist Rupnik’s art.
Vatican News is featuring it this month.
Years ago, on my first visit to the Vatican museum, I spent most of a day wandering through that labyrinth. It was summer, and it was packed.
At some point, I found myself in the gallery Paul VI set up to display the large collection of modern religious art he’d purchased and been gifted. Aside from a couple of Matisse paper cutouts, it was bad ‘art’ as far as the eye could see. What wasn’t kitsch and schlock was so abstract it had no religious element.
The gallery went on and on, and after a few minutes I have to admit I was just trying to figure out where the freakin’ exit was, so I could get back to the ‘real art’ I’d traveled so far to see. There was no one there to point me to the exit, and on that summer day when the Vatican was packed with visitors I was the only person in those otherwise deserted galleries. Thousands and thousands of visitors that day, and the only visitor was there by accident and trying to leave!
People go to the Vatican Museum to see the grandeur of beauty and Truth. They don’t find it in those rooms, and thus, no one goes there.
Honestly, seeing those galleries of dumb crap, compared to the astonishing beauty of the centuries of art around it was like seeing a Thanksgiving turkey with a cigarette stubbed out on top— it’s ugly, it’s wrong, its addition is in fact a detraction, a rejection of what was there before it.
Clearly, we should shun sophistication.
Nope, just really bad Art.
“Vatican News is featuring it this month.”
You’ve got to be kidding me! They’re just rubbing it in our faces now
This is a rip off of Cubebot toys which are a very clever and classic Japanese toy design:
Cubebot® is a wooden toy robot inspired by Japanese Shinto Kumi-ki puzzles. Made from wood and elastic, Cubebot can be positioned to hold dozens of poses. When it’s time to rest, Cubebot folds back into a perfect cube. A classic toy for all ages that will endure generations of play.
The people who have the parent to the authentic version should sur yhe “artist” for stealing the authentic intellectual design property.
https://www.areaware.com/collections/cubebot
*patent
Only an EssJay would commit so blatant a fallacy in defense of garbage like this.
OK, this isn’t an exhibit for the Art Biennale. These are figures that will appear in a garden at the Architecture Biennale.