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| "It's disappointing that representatives
of Rockefeller Center removed Eric Fischl's 'Tumbling Woman' from public
display because of complaints about the troubling nature of the bronze
piece, which depicts a woman falling to her death from the World Trade
Center on 9/11. "Tumbling Woman," meant as a tribute to those who suffered such horrible deaths, may indeed be troubling, but to that I can say only this: Good. Sept. 11 was troubling, too. There has always been a duality to the purpose of art; it serves both to express emotion and to evoke it. If Fischl's sculpture charged viewers with horror, then it fulfilled its purpose. Fischl's frank portrayal is a primal reminder of the carnage experienced that morning and, by invoking those events, memorializes that horrible day." |
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Selected Comments:
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I thought it was just
an odd faceless lump trying to do
yoga myself. - Silent Baboo That's fucked up, man. - OpenWounds It's not that bad. - Astar sculpture: art text (and the installation): porn Artists have no right to "charge viewers with horror" when they are unwilling participants. - Grouchy It's not the fall that hurts, it's that sudden stop!SPLAT...SPLAT...SPLAT...like water ballons... - my worst nightmare You mean that isn't a posture of The Kama Sutra?! Damn, now I feel dirty. - TerminalD It's ART...It speaks volumes...It evokes powerful feelings and controversy...unfortunately the vanilla public would only like it if it were fitted with angel wings and you could buy postcards of it. - Miami Mike |
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ART!
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(42 Votes- 88% Art, 12% Porn) |
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