{"id":2533,"date":"2008-08-28T13:39:49","date_gmt":"2008-08-28T18:39:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2008\/08\/28\/banality-of-being-provocative\/"},"modified":"2008-08-28T13:39:49","modified_gmt":"2008-08-28T18:39:49","slug":"banality-of-being-provocative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2008\/08\/banality-of-being-provocative\/","title":{"rendered":"Banality of being provocative"},"content":{"rendered":"

When an artist wants to be provocative and to "start a conversation" they all seem to be provocative in the same way. The banality of being provocative. Yes to push the envelop your "art" must:<\/p>\n

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  1. Use a crucifix in some way (bonus points for using urine or a corpus made out of chocolate)<\/li>\n
  2. Substitute the people in the Last Supper with your own figures (bonus points for nudity or making Jesus a woman)<\/li>\n
  3. Mock some other form of sacred art especially of Our Lady (Bonus points for using excrement preferably from a large gray animal with a trunk)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Artists are a lot of teenager who often rebel in exactly the same way and wear\/pierce\/tattoo exactly the same things as a sign of their "individuality."<\/p>\n

    An Italian museum has defied Pope Benedict by refusing to remove a statue of a crucified green frog clutching a beer mug and an egg.<\/p>\n

    The Vatican had condemned the modern art sculpture as blasphemous.<\/p>\n

    The board of the Museion museum in the northern city of Bolzano voted it was a work of art, however.<\/p>\n

    Of course we get the typical hyperbole with Pope’s fury as crucified frog statue goes on display at Italian museum<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    When an artist wants to be provocative and to "start a conversation" they all seem to be provocative in the same way. The banality of being provocative. Yes to push…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-punditry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2533\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}