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11.27.2008
who arted?
do i not understand art? i guess not...therefore, i should probably shut my mouth about it. but first i want to rant about the spoonbridge and cherry sculpture by claes oldenburg and coosje van bruggen. it's displayed outdoors at the walker art center in minneapolis.
i've never been to the walker. so i've never seen this sculpture in real life. but i see it popping up all over the place as an iconic structure in the twin cities area. marketing materials, vacation photos, whathaveyou. i sense that area residents claim some sort of pride and ownership over this sculpture. and i don't get it. i'd guess that there's a whole lotta radder art housed in the TC area that should be plastered all over their tourist brochures. but who am i?
so here's why i don't like the sculpture. and i know i shouldn't take art so literally, but i think this is exactly my problem when analyzing this piece. so i admit it. however... first, the spoon sucks. what kind of spoon has a ridiculous arch like that? and the angle of the head is obnoxious. good luck getting that into your mouth. you'd likely smack your nose with the back of your fist in an attempt. and the scale of the cherry to the spoon. what the hell? it's like a raisin, not a cherry. puh-leez. if you're going to drop mad bones on something like this and employ professionals to construct it, in the name of art, figure that shit out.
that's pretty much all i got. i think the sculpture and it's iconic stature to the mpls area are overrated. oh yeah, i said it.
i've never been to the walker. so i've never seen this sculpture in real life. but i see it popping up all over the place as an iconic structure in the twin cities area. marketing materials, vacation photos, whathaveyou. i sense that area residents claim some sort of pride and ownership over this sculpture. and i don't get it. i'd guess that there's a whole lotta radder art housed in the TC area that should be plastered all over their tourist brochures. but who am i?
so here's why i don't like the sculpture. and i know i shouldn't take art so literally, but i think this is exactly my problem when analyzing this piece. so i admit it. however... first, the spoon sucks. what kind of spoon has a ridiculous arch like that? and the angle of the head is obnoxious. good luck getting that into your mouth. you'd likely smack your nose with the back of your fist in an attempt. and the scale of the cherry to the spoon. what the hell? it's like a raisin, not a cherry. puh-leez. if you're going to drop mad bones on something like this and employ professionals to construct it, in the name of art, figure that shit out.
that's pretty much all i got. i think the sculpture and it's iconic stature to the mpls area are overrated. oh yeah, i said it.
2 Comments:
lattegrrl said...
The fact that it has reached icon stature speaks for its artitude.
lattegrrl said...
oh- and ps: I like your punny title!