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=> so much for art critques...

so much for art critques...
Posted by parhad (Guest) - Wednesday, July 21 2004, 18:27:48 (CEST)
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talented Assyrian painter

Posted By: Qasrani <qasrani2003@yahoo.com> (62-177-177-243.static.bbeyond.nl)
Date: Wednesday, 21 July 2004, at 10:21 a.m.

Check out the paintings of Adam Odisho. I just came upon these paintings and they are great.

...they are not "great". They are barely mediocre...as my sculptures are barely above mediocre. You really must stop heaving and sighing in the service of nationalism..or whatever you heave and sigh to. You wonŞt trick us into self=esteem.

...You canŞt imagine how it disappoints sincere Christians when I have to tell them they are mistaken when they call me "great". IŞve seen "great"...it ainŞt me. All I wanted to get to was "good enough"...good enough to meet the requirements to get our Art placed in public alongside all the rest...and very thrilled I was to have the work of MY hands, not YahweŞs, included among really GREAT works of Art. Chicago has one of the greatest collections of public monumnets anywhere...and we could have been there...if there were less nominal Assyrians running around looking for shortcuts to greatness.

...mediocre is mediocre...its religion doesnŞt elevate it. A rat bastard like Rodin was to his wife and son can be great...if he is. But in our community, someone who questions, or marries "wrong" gets cast out..someone who uses a wrong color can be thrown aside...this is not a community that underdstands quality let alone what is great..it is a community that has enthroned mediocrity and calls self=loathing "pride".

If I know IŞm not great...I KNOW this guy isnŞt great either...and I know EXACTLY how to value Christian praise...OR condemnation...neither have anything to do with the merits of the case.

http://www.atour.com/~adam/display.htm

Enjoy!

...when have we demanded the best from our children or ourselves that we expect to stumble into greatness?



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