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THE ART OF A RAM'S PENIS IN A COW'S VAGINA
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THE ART OF A RAM'S PENIS IN A COW'S VAGINA  Above is Heide Hatry’s photograph, helpfully titled Not A Rose. The photograph is probably what you think it is – it’s a ram's penis in a cow’s vagina photographed as a floral arrangement! Heide Hatry is a German-born conceptual artist based in New York. Along with Damien Hirst, Dieter Roth and Jana Sterbak, she is one of the leading bio-artists in the world. Below is what the critics think of her work: “Heide Hatry’s flowers triumphantly confuse categories, calling both artificiality and reality into question, as art should do.... The process exposes our culture’s selfish disrespect for anything we can exploit, and to hell with the long term consequences.” [Lucy Lippard, writer] “Hatry's work, though it traffics in parts of non-human animals who were unjustly slain, and though it therefore partakes in the slaughter, has the decency to be beautiful, and to memorialize the slaughter through recontextualization.... But beauty is one kind of dignity, for the lost, and it gives us a chance to remember them. Hatry's determination and ambition to be beautiful nearly remediates the injustice." [Rick Moody, musician] “Heide Hatry’s reconfiguration of animal flesh into flowers is a wonderful enactment of Buddhist philosophy. When the repulsive is also beautiful, then we have arrived at a place of wisdom that transcends our usual subjective prejudices.” [Stephen T Asma, philosopher] “Hatry's decision to use material that Westerners usually eschew – because, among other reasons, it reminds us of our base antecedence – to craft beautiful forms is subtly provocative, goading us to wrestle with ontological questions that, like the discarded meat the artist works with, we prefer to neglect.” [Christopher Rieger, artist] What sort of art do you like? Do you, like me, enjoy reading what art critics write just for the hilarity of it all? Inside is another one of Heide Hatry’s photographs, Betty Hirst. |
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Heide Hatry's Betty Hirst photograph: [image]
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1. Not this kind........ 2. I believe they exist in an alternate time string......... (I thought this was going to be a post about that daft celebrity show!!  )
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Personally I'm not taken by it. I just feel it's an attempt to outrage, which in this day and age is a bit adolescent hackneyed. The best definition I've heard about contemporary art is that it serves to change how the viewer perceives the world. Well neither pic has done that. Perhaps the cleverest bit was how she left the bollocks out so the critics could add them afterwards! warm xx
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As art goes, this work has certainly inflamed passions. It seems everyone hates it. I enjoy art. Personally, I wonder at the process the artist takes to arrive at the finished product. Since art is a passion of form, getting any kind of passionate response is good. Critics are just more talking heads telling us what to think. Like most things, you cannot tell another how to feel about something so subjective.
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1. Not this kind........ 2. I believe they exist in an alternate time string......... (I thought this was going to be a post about that daft celebrity show!! )
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Well, I must say that it was an interesting photo today. 
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I think the photo is revolting but I had an urge to share my revulsion!
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Personally I'm not taken by it. I just feel it's an attempt to outrage, which in this day and age is a bit adolescent hackneyed. The best definition I've heard about contemporary art is that it serves to change how the viewer perceives the world. Well neither pic has done that. Perhaps the cleverest bit was how she left the bollocks out so the critics could add them afterwards! warm xx
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It is weird; the photo's not my cup of tea.
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I don't mind telling you that I'm deeply perturbed by that image. It's a grotesque and depraved interpretation of art, at best. How disgusting and malodorous does this pseudo-artist have to go to create repellent rubbish like this? (sadly, I could not find a vomiting emoticon for this response). My original response was evaporated when I attempted to close the emoticon menu... Severely pissed-off! I have way too much respect for my time to waste it on reading the critiques of "art", or "music", or "literature" or "movies" by pretentious shitheads who don't have an artistic, musical, literary or cinematic cell in their brain.
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As art goes, this work has certainly inflamed passions. It seems everyone hates it. I enjoy art. Personally, I wonder at the process the artist takes to arrive at the finished product. Since art is a passion of form, getting any kind of passionate response is good. Critics are just more talking heads telling us what to think. Like most things, you cannot tell another how to feel about something so subjective.
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Quite. I can think of many words - horrible, revolting, disgusting, vile, etc!
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That is straight out of a hannibal lecter movie...ew "Seduce my mind and you can have my body, find my soul and I'm yours forever." ... Neil Gaiman quotes
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That is straight out of a hannibal lecter movie...ew  Thanks for stopping by.
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