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August 29, 2008
Art Museum Displays Crucified Frog
For millennia, going back to the exquisite sculptures of the Greeks, Western Civilization rightfully took pride in its art. Then came moonbattery.
The latest example of what art has deteriorated into comes from Italy, once the epicenter of the Renaissance:
An art museum in northern Italy said Thursday it will continue displaying a sculpture portraying a green frog nailed to a cross that has angered Pope Benedict XVI and local officials.
If it offends decent people, it's art. Apparently there are no other standards, which is why so few artists bother to develop any depth of vision or technical skill anymore.
On a tip from mega.
Posted by Van Helsing at August 29, 2008 7:59 AM
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The same applies to literature, architecture, cinema, etc.
The impact of the arts on society is not to be underestimated. As the great classicist Werner Jaeger wrote in 1939:
"It is usually through artistic expression that the highest values of mankind acquire permanent significance and the force which moves mankind. Art has a limitless power of converting the human soul—a power which the Greeks called psychagogia. For art alone possesses the two essentials of educational influence—universal significance and immediate appeal. By uniting these two methods of influencing the mind, it surpasses both philosophical thought and actual life. Life has immediate appeal, but the events of life lack universal significance: they have too many accidental accompaniments to create a truly deep and lasting impression on the soul. Philosophy and abstract thought do attain to universal significance: they deal with the essence of things; yet they affect none but the man who can use his own experience to inspire them with the vividness and intensity of personal life. Thus, poetry….is more philosophical than life (if we may use Aristotle’s famous epigram in a wider sense), but it is also, because of its concentrated spiritual actuality, more lifelike than philosophy."
Posted by: AWOL Civilization at August 29, 2008 8:14 AM
Where are the outraged Christians out there buring cars and carrying signs offering to chop off heads for the insult to their religion????
Oh wait.... that's Islam.
Never mind.
Posted by: chuck in st paul at August 29, 2008 8:27 AM
People have got to stop being "offended" over stuff like this and start saying things like "that's retarded" and "that's the dumbest thing I've ever seen". This crap will quickly lose it's shock value after that.
Posted by: KHarn at August 29, 2008 12:27 PM
Jim Hansen would be proud. After all, That Cesspool Street show was all about brainwashing children to socialism thinking.
I guess they run it in Italy with sub-titles. Looks like it rubbed off.
Next, Oscar as Moses.....
Posted by: Oiao at August 29, 2008 2:07 PM
I guess it really isn't easy being green. I'd be angered at such a waste of resources if I wasn't so puzzled by the randomness of it.
Posted by: Arthur at August 30, 2008 5:33 PM
