Forget tearing down the statues of American historical figures, if they really wanted to humiliate them, they would put up new statues of them.
Just ask MLK.
The D.C. MLK memorial was bad enough. Not only does it look more like Mao than MLK, and maybe carving the most prominent black man in the country out of white rock was an odd choice, but the $10 million Boston MLK memorial decided that it could do better.
Titled, The Embrace, it’s a nightmarish image that looks like a collaboration between M.C. Escher and H.R. Giger. There’s nothing ennobling or dignified about this artistic statement about the sculptor’s love of curves and circles. It goes beyond being meaningless to being actively ugly and offensive, a tangle of arms that embrace themselves. When leftists aren’t tearing down noble statues, they’re putting up incredibly ugly ones.
Once upon a time we actually built memorials that ennobled the dead and us.
And I can’t help but think that the fetish for destroying memorials and statues is as much about leftists loving ugliness and hating the aesthetics of nobility and beauty. Unable to create great art, they destroy it instead.
That’s why the Black Lives Matter race rioters seemed as willing to vandalize black statues as white ones.
Putting up something like the $10M MLK memorial in Boston is its own act of artistic vandalism and, in its own way, shows the degeneracy of a culture that tears down statues but can’t manage to create one.
$10,000,000 for a statue that probably took a month to build at most?
Money laundering is rife in the art world so is tax laundering.
Did you know the sculpture is in the shape of a heart? Of course not because Greenfield picked the picture featuring the worst angle. You just needed to do a simple google search. This is what I used:
“$10 million Boston MLK memorial”
I don’t like it but FPM is using a deceptive photo because Greenfield hates you and holds you in contempt.
No matter what angle you see it from it’s ugly.
Find a better angle from a ground viewing position. Wow us.
This took literally seconds:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/monument-honoring-dr-martin-luther-king-jr-coretta-scott-king-unveiled-boston-the-embrace/
That’s a better angle? It sucks, like you dan.
Cowboy, Cowboy, Cowboy. I know this is hard for you. Modeling human behavior when you have no internal reference is difficult. You’re supposed to actually try and engage with the argument made. Not immediately devolve into childish insults.
If you’re not careful you’ll end up like Jeff Bargholz. A completely insane, self-hating closet case incapable of communicating with actual humans.
And you think that’s a better angle? Sad.
You’re up till circa 2 AM on THIS website? What is wrong with you?
No, it is not the worst angle. Other sites have shown angles that suggest obscenity more clearly. The statue is just lousy art. For readers, DF is on the YAOOYFM list.
I’ve seen other angles. I can see why perverts on FPM would focus only on this. However, I’ve also seen angles where it clearly shows the heart shape. That doesn’t matter though. FPMers are FPMers and they’ll always see the worst and most deviant things in their surroundings.
So, what exactly is the YAOOYFM list?
Dan, what the hell are you doing here other than annoying the grownups? Go play in your room.
Hey, “Lightbringer” I’ve seen what makes FPMers happy. Blood, dead bodies, and hatred make up your meager diet. Nothing about any FPMer says “adult”. You soil the word by letting it come out of your mouth.
It doesn’t look like a heart like I’ve ever seen and i saw hundreds of angles
Your simply a liar. A simple google search shows the heart shape.
Did the Big Guy get his 10 percent too…
Aggressive ignorance uniting with hate produces ugliness.
Ugly minds make ugly things.
Perhaps a good time for this:
Great video. There are standards — in art, in architecture, in literature, in music, in every aesthetic. And anyone who refuses to conform to those standards, which by the way go back to Aristotle, is an arrogant fool.
lolol, that is some bad art 🙂
Viewed from the perspective looking straight at the female pair of hands, there is a very unfortunate appearance suggested by the object within her grasp – the male member I am afraid.
To me, it looked like the hands were caressing a large sweet potato. Oh well.
Yes. It looks like a sweet potato, with a glans.
That is one if not the ugliest statue I’ve ever seen. An excellent observation, Mr. Greenfield, the leftists must hate beauty and aesthetics snce ugliness is all they see. And produce. Modern so called art is not uplifting, it’s derogatory.
It’s not good but I’ve seen worse. Every, cheaply made, Confederate statue looks worse than this. You also have to reconsider your position on art.
It was fashionable in the 1930s.
In Germany.
You taking the hint?
Are you aware of the ugly, hideous, irrational and nihilistic, art and culture of Weimar Germany? Medievalism, Orientalism, Existentialism, and Nihilism were the hallmarks of Weimar art and culture.
Man the irrational, helpless, and doomed creature was the leitmotif of Weimar culture and art as perfectly symobolized by Edvard Munch’s painting “The Scream”. Although Munch is Norwegian his artistic sense of life was the direct result not only his own life but his tragic sense of life allegedly confirmed by German Kantian-Hegelian-Schopenhauerian philosophy. The irrationalism and nihilism of Schopenhauer, a disciple of Kant, was a huge influence on artists of the late 19th and early 20th century.
Ironically, Hitler and the Nazis banned decadent modern art for being “Jewish”, even while Hitler and Nazism were also the very product of German cultural decay and collapse.
“In later years, the creators of “Weimar culture”, the ones who survived, cursed the German people for not having listened to them. The tragedy was that the people HAD listened.” – Leonard Peikoff, “The Ominous Parallels: The End of Freedom In America”
Some of the “modern” art made during that period was good.
“Are you aware of the ugly [you don’t understand abstraction], hideous [repeating yourself], irrational [you don’t understand it] and nihilistic [ibid], art and culture of Weimar Germany?”
That’s one hell of an opening sentence.
“Medievalism, Orientalism, Existentialism, and Nihilism were the hallmarks of Weimar art and culture.”
Medievalism got its start in the 1700s. Orientalism started in the later 1800s. Medievalism, Existentialism started with Kierkegaard but the term itself was coined AFTER WWII. Nihilism was another one from the 1700s. These movements were not specifically tied to the Weimar Republic.
Much of the art you try to piss on was a reaction to the shock of WWI which ended a 100 year period of relative peace and the assumption of inevitable progress. It was also a movement that tried to under humanities inner landscape. Of course this notion is terrifying for FPMers as their worldview assumes that most people aren’t human. Racism, sexism, sectarian, sexual and class bigotry define the American right. That can’t work if everyone is a human.
This is why the Weimar Republic MUST be evil and decadent to an FPMer like yourself. The ideas that found expression there run counter to the genocidal worldview of FPMers. It’s also a (childish) attempt to separate the American right from it’s fascist roots.
There’s one of MLK, on MLK Blvd., in Atlanta that’s almost as ugly, and probably equally overpriced. It’s abstract, but you can at least recognize who it is.
And the National Endowment for the Arts was shelling out lots and lots of dollars for Serano and Maplethorpe least we forget about that
And the CIA funding Jackson Pollack.
That’s funny coming from you. Without debasing American culture, art and education the right could have never created the America of today. It’s the only way you could have gotten paid to write these blog posts.
Yes, we were the ones funding Mapplethorpe, Karen Finley and ‘Piss Christ’.
The debasing of America culture is all on your faction.
LOL! That was literally DECADES ago. Mapplethorpe is dead and he still lives rent free in your head. It’s your side that rides around with defaced American flags and aspire to get “autographed” copies of the Bible by Trump. Your ilk care nothing for the country or faith you claim to so love.
They were? That’s interesting. I always wondered how he kept from immolating himself, smoking cigarettes while he was pouring paint from a ladder onto a canvas. Then I found out that he used acrylics, which aren’t as inflammable as oils. Unfortunately they’re also not as durable and many of his canvases are falling apart now.
What a shameless philistine you are, Spurwing!
I, and many others, felt marvelously enriched on beholding Joe Serrano’s image of a Crucifix
in a fish tank of what was claimed to be urine and doubly so on gazing at the beautifully-composed
photographic image of Robert Mapplethorpe inserting the butt end of a bullwhip into his own rear end.
Art for Art’s sake!
Hands-on “Art Criticism” is not dead!
A gang of tinkers showed their contempt for non-representational art some years ago;
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2009/may/17/henry-moore-sculpture-theft-reclining-figure
You might have enjoyed such art depicting Huey Newton treating Bobby Seale that way.
Another day, another blog post. Hey, Greenfield I know one a day is an overwhelming workload for you but you could put in *some* meaningful effort. Anyone can figure out you picked this image because it’s a bad angle and then belched out few platitudes.
This picture is from NBC News
https://media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com/image/upload/t_fit-760w,f_auto,q_auto:best/rockcms/2023-01/230112-the-embrace-ew-130p-954523.jpg
it’s worse than mine
MLK was a plagiarist, a whore monger, a philanderer, a depraved sexual predator. If that wasn’t bad enough he was also a Christian Socialist. King was not fighting for the dignity and sovereignty of the individual, he was not fighting for capitalism, he was fighting to force the free individual into a collectivist and eventually socialist tyranny.
An ugly and repulsive statue of him is fitting and appropriate.
The Civil Rights Act is the opposite of civil. Civility and civilization depend on reason and persuasion not on the initiation of force against individuals who have forced no one. A privately owned bakery has the right to refuse to bake a cake for any reason whatsoever including racial, sexual, or religious bigotry. It is morally wrong and irrational to do so, but it is not a violation of any one’s rights. But to FORCE the baker against his will to bake a cake he does not want to bake IS a violation of HIS rights. It is collectivist-statist slavery. The very evil blacks and whites fought to escape and destroy.
“Martin Luther King was a sexual predator, newly-released FBI evidence suggests”
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/martin-luther-king-was-a-sexual-predator-newly-released-fbi-evidence-suggests/
In today’s world, what the FBI releases or not should be questioned as to both motivation and fact..
The general content and nature of the tapes and the transcripts have been well known for decades.
ML King Jr. Day must go along with Black History Season.
Thank you for the truth, THX. There have been altogether too many hagiographies of this imperfect man. I think that there is enough testimony from some of his victims and enough proof of his plagiarism to make your case.
much of the art of modern times has suffered from a nefarious need to ruin beauty accelerated through the morass of entertainment in a modern culture
Beauty is closely related with the sacred .We live in a loveless culture wherein beauty is desecrated. The rise of Kitsch during the 20th century is closely aligned with the rise of the Holocaust and the Gulag where the human being is like a doll we kiss in one moment throw away .
there is such a thing as real beauty, that it is a highly spiritual and metaphysical endeavour, and what passes for “modern art” now is an obvious abomination, an insult to the word “art” in particular and the public in general. The fable of “The emperor’s new clothes” aptly sums up the pretense of modern so-called-art. Aesthetics went into the doldrums before Andy Warhol Super charged it .
loving the beautiful may be a moral imperative, that in fact by refusing to do so we may be a fallen society.
If you tend to think that American culture is low, vulgar, and foul (and that this is not a good thing), you know it comes with a price. And he’s clear that it is allied with absolute evil
Thank you Mr. Greenfield for pointing this out each and every week.
well said
loving beauty is challenging because it suggests that there are standards we must rise to, embracing ugliness is liberating for such people
Sucking up to the readers? For shame.
A few years ago someone erected something they called Spaceship Eartha a Global with a human figure with cracks spreading out from where the figure stands it was suppose to represent the Fragile Earth load of malarkey and the dumb thing fell all apart because the Earth Friendly Glue proved to be no good
If memory serves, somewhere in War and Peace Tolstoy observes that the barbarian cannot create, but only destroy that which was created by better men. This is in response to the French sack of Moscow, in which the “civilized” French acted like savages. It always comes to mind when another exquisite bronze equestrian statue comes down in the United States, not for any reason but because the man upon the beautifully, lovingly rendered horse is presumed to have been white and lived “in the olden days”. Victor Davis Hanson wrote that these bronzes could never be replicated; nobody today has the technical ability to create such exact renderings of flesh, motion, and draped cloth in bronze. Every one destroyed is a piece of the West’s patrimony gone, and gone forever. And what do we replace it with? Garbage.