Word: finleyism
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Intent plays an extreme and important role in the creation of art. Karen Finley, for example, enjoys parading her body and getting drunk and acting like a lunatic. Granted, she says she has her feminist reasons behind what she does—although her whole life stands as a hypocritical opposition to those beliefs—but she doesn’t develop what she believes in and wants to express and then finds the best medium to express that. Instead, she finds the medium she likes, and then does what she wants, and finally ascribes meaning...
...should never rely on its medium. It is a medium, and all should be done to express in physical terms what the subconscious and conscious want to communicate to the audience. There are other wonderful artists who use nudes as the best medium for what they do. Karen Finley finds the best meaning for her medium. So her work has great meaning, great effect, and is full of imagery and political stance...
...those people who doesn’t “get” modern art, you aren’t going to like it when Karen Finley pops out one of her breasts and starts squirting her milk all over a piece of crushed velvet. Performance artist Finley knows how to push your buttons...
...rather than intellectual—artist. Almost childlike in her openness, she reveals her whole self while performing. Too intense to be hip, but too in-your-face to be condescended to, she conveys the anguish of existence with a furious energy. Like some kind primal being, Finley expresses the inexpressible and demonstrates the power of pure emotion...
...fanatic," said Finley Peter Dunne's Mr. Dooley, "is a man that does what he thinks th' Lord wud do if He knew th' facts in th' case." On the other hand, there are folks like me who are fanatically uncertain about what God is thinking. I believe in him, all right. But I do not believe that he is on our, or any, side in wars or that he oversouls his way through the trees or that he presides over my bowling game...