Slog - Comments on A Blart for You http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/a_blart_for_you What it is: Christ Town, Quincy, FL (2006, ultra-chrome ink jet print, by M. Laine Wyatt) Where it is: Punch Gallery This is a sneaky, sneaky photograph. At first it looks like a randomly disheveled scene. But is it? In the folksy mural of John the Baptist and Christ, the reflection of light on the ripple of the water around Christ's waist is painted on. But there's also a lamp set up in front of it that confuses things visually and symbolically. The lamp appears to be clamped to an aluminum tub that may or may not hold a... Copyright 2008 Thu, 13 Dec 2007 09:30:38 -0800 Fri, 14 Dec 2007 10:05:10 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by yearning ...and Christ's left hand is giving John a bit of a "how's your father".

]]> yearning http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/a_blart_for_you#c873194 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/a_blart_for_you#c873194 Arts Thu, 13 Dec 2007 09:54:53 -0800 Comment by Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz. How is that in anyway cool?

]]> Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz. http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/a_blart_for_you#c873201 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/a_blart_for_you#c873201 Arts Thu, 13 Dec 2007 09:57:48 -0800 Comment by Chris @2: It's cool if you're a pseudointellectual jackass. The above interpretation is about as meaningful as the average numerological garbage about 9/11 being foretold by the number of wrinkles on Nancy Reagan's ass.

]]> Chris http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/a_blart_for_you#c873213 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/a_blart_for_you#c873213 Arts Thu, 13 Dec 2007 10:10:50 -0800 Comment by -B- You show the image then tell us what is in the image. ???
I read the other day that when Shubert was asked what his piano piece meant he said nothing and just sat down and played it again.

]]> -B- http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/a_blart_for_you#c873223 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/a_blart_for_you#c873223 Arts Thu, 13 Dec 2007 10:17:57 -0800 Comment by Michigan Matt This reminds me of bad art in a Sunday school room. Seriously. It makes me cringe. But maybe that's what the artist is going for.

]]> Michigan Matt http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/a_blart_for_you#c873237 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/a_blart_for_you#c873237 Arts Thu, 13 Dec 2007 10:30:46 -0800 Comment by Fnarf The person who did all that arranging of elements wasn't the photographer; it was some nameless Floridian religious nut. The photo is a document, not a painting.

]]> Fnarf http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/a_blart_for_you#c873240 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/a_blart_for_you#c873240 Arts Thu, 13 Dec 2007 10:31:46 -0800 Comment by The CHZA You'd think that the way I'm sitting here, I'm just at a messy desk with a pillow on an office chair because the foam is blown out and I have a bony ass. But actually, you'll notice that the pillow is yellow, both eye-catching yet paradoxically a symbol of caution. My coffee mug is empty - have I drank and received satisfaction, or has it yet to be filled and I sit here yearning for the satisfaction of taste and feeling awake? For if I am not awake, the disheveled appearance of my desk suggests not so much slovenly habits as it does unmistakably cast your eye about searching for a visual center, like a Where's Waldo picture. My computer is at the center, but should it be? For if I sit upon a symbol of caution, it demonstrates I am throwing caution into the wind by showing it my ass, yet I am comforted by the caution. You'll notice the Koosh ball beneath a bill, notepad and headphone wires. A few of its tendrils escape and reach upward, like a child suffocating.

I could go on and on and on. Give me a goddamn break.

]]> The CHZA http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/a_blart_for_you#c873260 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/a_blart_for_you#c873260 Arts Thu, 13 Dec 2007 10:47:47 -0800 Comment by Jen Graves Inner "Fuck You All, You're All Stupid To Me" I love to type and talk and type about what I would talk about and talk and type and talk and type and talk and type and talk and type and talk and type and talk and type and talk and type and talk and type and talk and type and talk and type and talk and type and talk and type and talk and type and talk and type and talk and type and talk and type and talk and type and talk and type and talk and type and talk and type and talk and type and talk and type and talk and type and talk and type and talk and type and talk and type and talk and type and talk and type and talk and type and talk and type and talk and type and talk and type and talk and type and talk and type and talk and type and talk and type and talk and type and talk and type and talk and type and talk and type and talk and type and talk and type and talk and type and talk and type and talk and type and talk and type and talk and type and talk and type and talk and type and talk and type and talk and type and talk and type and talk and type and talk and type and talk and type and talk and type and talk and type and talk and type and talk and type and talk and type and talk and type and talk and type and talk and type and talk and type and talk and type and talk and type and talk and type and talk and type and talk and type and talk and type and talk and type and talk and type and talk and type and talk and type and talk and type and talk and type and talk and type and talk and type and talk and type and talk and type and talk and type and talk and type type type type type type type type type type type type type type type type type type type type type type type type type type type type type type type type type type type type type type type type type type type type type type type type type type type type type type type type type type type type type type type type type type type type type type type type type type type type type type type type type type type type type type type type type type type type type type type type type type type type type type type type type type type type type type type type type type type type type type type type type type type type type type type type type type type type type type type type type type type type type type type type type type type type type type type type type type type type type type type type type type type type type type type type type type type type type type type.

]]> Jen Graves Inner "Fuck You All, You're All Stupid To Me" http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/a_blart_for_you#c873302 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/a_blart_for_you#c873302 Arts Thu, 13 Dec 2007 11:22:20 -0800 Comment by Eric F Um, 3, 4, 7, and 8, you're aware that there's an unbroken 500-year modern tradition of describing and discussing imagery in art, right? It's not really a novelty.

]]> Eric F http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/a_blart_for_you#c873305 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/a_blart_for_you#c873305 Arts Thu, 13 Dec 2007 11:26:37 -0800 Comment by infrequent photographs can be interesting. this one is interesting.

]]> infrequent http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/a_blart_for_you#c873339 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/a_blart_for_you#c873339 Arts Thu, 13 Dec 2007 11:57:54 -0800 Comment by Just Some Guy @10 Yeah, but alot of people feel it isn't interesting.

It doesn't seem conscious acts created this setup. It seems like a church has a baptismal tub and its in the corner out of the way. And some guy took a photo of it.

Wooooooo. It might be interesting if it was intentional. Some of the observations are so prosaic.

]]> Just Some Guy http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/a_blart_for_you#c873379 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/a_blart_for_you#c873379 Arts Thu, 13 Dec 2007 12:32:33 -0800 Comment by Eric F @11, the same could be said of Atget's shop windows, or Robert Adams' Colorado tract homes. Photography's history is rich with artists who just "took a photo of it."

]]> Eric F http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/a_blart_for_you#c873400 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/a_blart_for_you#c873400 Arts Thu, 13 Dec 2007 12:44:43 -0800 Comment by infrequent well, sure, different people will find different thing interesting... and to varying degrees. i only find it somewhat interesting. it's like the description of a normal room, which isn't interesting until you start making observations. it says almost as much about the artist and the viewer as it does the actual place photographed.

that said, i wouldn't want it hanging in my place. and i don't like it. it's merely somewhat interesting, as art.

]]> infrequent http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/a_blart_for_you#c873401 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/a_blart_for_you#c873401 Arts Thu, 13 Dec 2007 12:44:56 -0800 Comment by Papillon Fnarf, I get the feeling you're being obtuse and retrograde for the sake of being obtuse and retrograde. Which isn't like you.

What's up?

]]> Papillon http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/a_blart_for_you#c873474 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/a_blart_for_you#c873474 Arts Thu, 13 Dec 2007 13:27:43 -0800 Comment by sharon The person who did all that arranging of elements wasn't the photographer; it was some nameless Floridian religious nut. The photo is a document, not a painting.


That's a strange approach to critique.

How many painters have "documented" similarly? Isn't most art about capturing a moment, in one way or another?

]]> sharon http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/a_blart_for_you#c873491 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/a_blart_for_you#c873491 Arts Thu, 13 Dec 2007 13:39:59 -0800 Comment by Fnarf No, I don't think it is.

But photography is different. Photography IS about capturing the moment, or capturing what you intend to claim the moment was. Photography is different than painting -- good photography, at any rate; stylized photography that imitates the action of painting (posed, designed, describable in formulaic painting terms) is usually shitty photography.

Good photography -- and I think this is one -- isn't usefully explicated by this kind of art-catalog description. It just is what it is. Eric F has it right; those are great examples.

If I was to find out that the photographer HAD arranged these items, it would cease to be an interesting or valuable photograph, and cease to be interesting or valuable art.

]]> Fnarf http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/a_blart_for_you#c873673 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/a_blart_for_you#c873673 Arts Thu, 13 Dec 2007 15:23:50 -0800 Comment by booji boy I believe you all need to recalibrate your sarcasm detectors. Jen is analyzing a rather ordinary photo of a quite bland painting as if it were some masterwork.

And, I'd just like to point out that Jen forgot to note the stairs in the lower left ascending toward the light. Duh.

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