Comments on: Bad Public Art Finds Audience in Chicago http://www.artfagcity.com/2009/10/02/bad-public-art-finds-audience-in-chicago/ New York art news and reviews. Mon, 13 Feb 2012 04:20:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Sculpture Controversy, Pt. 2 | Chicago Art Bloghttp://www.artfagcity.com/2009/10/02/bad-public-art-finds-audience-in-chicago/comment-page-1/#comment-331682 Sculpture Controversy, Pt. 2 | Chicago Art Blog Thu, 09 Jun 2011 15:49:41 +0000 http://www.artfagcity.com/?p=10569#comment-331682 [...] art.  Richard Holland of art interview blog Bad at Sports (facetiously) defended the sculpture in the "Comments" section of Paddy Johnson's article saying: "I think it's great! We needed a monument to bad [...] [...] art.  Richard Holland of art interview blog Bad at Sports (facetiously) defended the sculpture in the "Comments" section of Paddy Johnson's article saying: "I think it's great! We needed a monument to bad [...]

]]> By: puffinhttp://www.artfagcity.com/2009/10/02/bad-public-art-finds-audience-in-chicago/comment-page-1/#comment-184729 puffin Sat, 03 Oct 2009 18:43:06 +0000 http://www.artfagcity.com/?p=10569#comment-184729 This guy has garbage all over the place. "Unconditional Surrender" in Sarasota.http://www.travbuddy.com/travel-blogs/51529/Unconditional-Surrender-Bronze-1 This guy has garbage all over the place.
“Unconditional Surrender” in Sarasota.

http://www.travbuddy.com/travel-blogs/51529/Unconditional-Surrender-Bronze-1

]]> By: puffinhttp://www.artfagcity.com/2009/10/02/bad-public-art-finds-audience-in-chicago/comment-page-1/#comment-317302 puffin Sat, 03 Oct 2009 18:43:00 +0000 http://www.artfagcity.com/?p=10569#comment-317302 This guy has garbage all over the place. "Unconditional Surrender" in Sarasota.http://www.travbuddy.com/travel-blogs/51529/Unconditional-Surrender-Bronze-1 This guy has garbage all over the place.
“Unconditional Surrender” in Sarasota.

http://www.travbuddy.com/travel-blogs/51529/Unconditional-Surrender-Bronze-1

]]> By: puffinhttp://www.artfagcity.com/2009/10/02/bad-public-art-finds-audience-in-chicago/comment-page-1/#comment-317303 puffin Sat, 03 Oct 2009 18:43:00 +0000 http://www.artfagcity.com/?p=10569#comment-317303 This guy has garbage all over the place. "Unconditional Surrender" in Sarasota.http://www.travbuddy.com/travel-blogs/51529/Unconditional-Surrender-Bronze-1 This guy has garbage all over the place.
“Unconditional Surrender” in Sarasota.

http://www.travbuddy.com/travel-blogs/51529/Unconditional-Surrender-Bronze-1

]]> By: tom moodyhttp://www.artfagcity.com/2009/10/02/bad-public-art-finds-audience-in-chicago/comment-page-1/#comment-184394 tom moody Fri, 02 Oct 2009 16:38:00 +0000 http://www.artfagcity.com/?p=10569#comment-184394 As for the "farmer aspect," let's not forget the Grant Wood painting was a clever simulacrum. The model for the farmer was a dentist and the model for the daughter (most assume it's supposed to be the farmer's spouse) was Wood's sister. Wood was a cosmopolitan painter who embraced a "back to the land" aesthetic: the image is a pure studio concoction, populist propaganda if you want to be harsh. Seward Johnson also deals in simulacra but not clever ones--just copies and stereotypes. He is reviled by the art world even more for having an extremely clumsy pair of hands. Like Rocky Balboa, he also works with boxing gloves on. As for the “farmer aspect,” let’s not forget the Grant Wood painting was a clever simulacrum. The model for the farmer was a dentist and the model for the daughter (most assume it’s supposed to be the farmer’s spouse) was Wood’s sister. Wood was a cosmopolitan painter who embraced a “back to the land” aesthetic: the image is a pure studio concoction, populist propaganda if you want to be harsh. Seward Johnson also deals in simulacra but not clever ones–just copies and stereotypes. He is reviled by the art world even more for having an extremely clumsy pair of hands. Like Rocky Balboa, he also works with boxing gloves on.

]]> By: tom moodyhttp://www.artfagcity.com/2009/10/02/bad-public-art-finds-audience-in-chicago/comment-page-1/#comment-317300 tom moody Fri, 02 Oct 2009 16:38:00 +0000 http://www.artfagcity.com/?p=10569#comment-317300 As for the "farmer aspect," let's not forget the Grant Wood painting was a clever simulacrum. The model for the farmer was a dentist and the model for the daughter (most assume it's supposed to be the farmer's spouse) was Wood's sister. Wood was a cosmopolitan painter who embraced a "back to the land" aesthetic: the image is a pure studio concoction, populist propaganda if you want to be harsh. Seward Johnson also deals in simulacra but not clever ones--just copies and stereotypes. He is reviled by the art world even more for having an extremely clumsy pair of hands. Like Rocky Balboa, he also works with boxing gloves on. As for the “farmer aspect,” let’s not forget the Grant Wood painting was a clever simulacrum. The model for the farmer was a dentist and the model for the daughter (most assume it’s supposed to be the farmer’s spouse) was Wood’s sister. Wood was a cosmopolitan painter who embraced a “back to the land” aesthetic: the image is a pure studio concoction, populist propaganda if you want to be harsh. Seward Johnson also deals in simulacra but not clever ones–just copies and stereotypes. He is reviled by the art world even more for having an extremely clumsy pair of hands. Like Rocky Balboa, he also works with boxing gloves on.

]]> By: tom moodyhttp://www.artfagcity.com/2009/10/02/bad-public-art-finds-audience-in-chicago/comment-page-1/#comment-317301 tom moody Fri, 02 Oct 2009 16:38:00 +0000 http://www.artfagcity.com/?p=10569#comment-317301 As for the "farmer aspect," let's not forget the Grant Wood painting was a clever simulacrum. The model for the farmer was a dentist and the model for the daughter (most assume it's supposed to be the farmer's spouse) was Wood's sister. Wood was a cosmopolitan painter who embraced a "back to the land" aesthetic: the image is a pure studio concoction, populist propaganda if you want to be harsh. Seward Johnson also deals in simulacra but not clever ones--just copies and stereotypes. He is reviled by the art world even more for having an extremely clumsy pair of hands. Like Rocky Balboa, he also works with boxing gloves on. As for the “farmer aspect,” let’s not forget the Grant Wood painting was a clever simulacrum. The model for the farmer was a dentist and the model for the daughter (most assume it’s supposed to be the farmer’s spouse) was Wood’s sister. Wood was a cosmopolitan painter who embraced a “back to the land” aesthetic: the image is a pure studio concoction, populist propaganda if you want to be harsh. Seward Johnson also deals in simulacra but not clever ones–just copies and stereotypes. He is reviled by the art world even more for having an extremely clumsy pair of hands. Like Rocky Balboa, he also works with boxing gloves on.

]]> By: beebehttp://www.artfagcity.com/2009/10/02/bad-public-art-finds-audience-in-chicago/comment-page-1/#comment-184376 beebe Fri, 02 Oct 2009 15:24:58 +0000 http://www.artfagcity.com/?p=10569#comment-184376 I lived in Chicago for ten years--and I consider it my adopted hometown and have a great affection for it--but the last 10-15 years there has been one long unbroken fugue of bad public art. It started with the fiberglass cows along Michigan avenue in the late 1990s, continued with the fiberglass couches, and culminated with Jaume Plensa's terrible water park masquerading as public art in the Millennium Park. This American Gothic sculpture just continues the trend. Chicago's public art is the visual equivalent of CBS's prime time sitcom line up. Aim low, hit everyone, don't get too smart.P.S. Incidentally, Kapoor's Cloudgate is the 30 Rock of Chicago's sitcom line up. I lived in Chicago for ten years–and I consider it my adopted hometown and have a great affection for it–but the last 10-15 years there has been one long unbroken fugue of bad public art. It started with the fiberglass cows along Michigan avenue in the late 1990s, continued with the fiberglass couches, and culminated with Jaume Plensa’s terrible water park masquerading as public art in the Millennium Park. This American Gothic sculpture just continues the trend. Chicago’s public art is the visual equivalent of CBS’s prime time sitcom line up. Aim low, hit everyone, don’t get too smart.

P.S. Incidentally, Kapoor’s Cloudgate is the 30 Rock of Chicago’s sitcom line up.

]]> By: beebehttp://www.artfagcity.com/2009/10/02/bad-public-art-finds-audience-in-chicago/comment-page-1/#comment-317299 beebe Fri, 02 Oct 2009 15:24:00 +0000 http://www.artfagcity.com/?p=10569#comment-317299 I lived in Chicago for ten years--and I consider it my adopted hometown and have a great affection for it--but the last 10-15 years there has been one long unbroken fugue of bad public art. It started with the fiberglass cows along Michigan avenue in the late 1990s, continued with the fiberglass couches, and culminated with Jaume Plensa's terrible water park masquerading as public art in the Millennium Park. This American Gothic sculpture just continues the trend. Chicago's public art is the visual equivalent of CBS's prime time sitcom line up. Aim low, hit everyone, don't get too smart.P.S. Incidentally, Kapoor's Cloudgate is the 30 Rock of Chicago's sitcom line up. I lived in Chicago for ten years–and I consider it my adopted hometown and have a great affection for it–but the last 10-15 years there has been one long unbroken fugue of bad public art. It started with the fiberglass cows along Michigan avenue in the late 1990s, continued with the fiberglass couches, and culminated with Jaume Plensa’s terrible water park masquerading as public art in the Millennium Park. This American Gothic sculpture just continues the trend. Chicago’s public art is the visual equivalent of CBS’s prime time sitcom line up. Aim low, hit everyone, don’t get too smart.

P.S. Incidentally, Kapoor’s Cloudgate is the 30 Rock of Chicago’s sitcom line up.

]]> By: greg.orghttp://www.artfagcity.com/2009/10/02/bad-public-art-finds-audience-in-chicago/comment-page-1/#comment-184373 greg.org Fri, 02 Oct 2009 15:10:25 +0000 http://www.artfagcity.com/?p=10569#comment-184373 the Equitable bldg by SOM. Actually, maybe a giant green screen so tourists can Photoshop their own backgrounds in the Equitable bldg by SOM. Actually, maybe a giant green screen so tourists can Photoshop their own backgrounds in

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