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Subject: the lakefront littered with art

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pa

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Date Posted: 01/13/06 9:47:45pm
In reply to: Geo 's message, "on the move" on 01/10/06 7:46:40am

I don't know if you saw my question geo..here's another opportunity:)

but seriously,sometimes I feel sick over all this public art...(not the bean gate at millenium park!)

although don't get me wrong...nothing could take its place... I am always moved by the lack of purpose in it and its just so rightness, (If tjm were here he could explain it better...he is so precise about imprecision)

BUT

Since I started sculpting 15 years ago I have always been concerned with the highly materialistic nature of art�even though I typically use industrial byproduct in my work�

Artists often conceptualize �solutions� to cultural and environmental problems, yet the means and the materials in conveying these ideas are often at odds with the issue. Like this Ned Kahn piece...they even have to say that 'real tres need to be planted nearby. WE can never replicate that wonder and violence of nature...but we sure try, the artifice in art. Think monumental sculptural�think many tons of metal and concrete. The transportation requirements alone are astounding. And now they have to dig it up and move it again, because the benefactor wanted it to obscure the view of the lakefront? just kidding, but seriously wondering,.

Recently I submitted a proposal for a project and suggested nothing...it was beautiful enough, why make more stuff...is it for stuff's sake?

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Subject	Author	Date
Re: the lakefart	pjk	01/13/06 10:42:13pm
farout -- pa, 01/14/06 12:03:19pm
Re: the lakefront littered with art	Geo	01/14/06 1:20:07pm
thanksfor the pics -- pa, 01/14/06 7:21:11pm Re: thanksfor the pics -- krz, 01/15/06 7:21:30am