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...judged separately from the content. But to demand that only the former quality be the basis for judging a work's value is to deny art's role in human life and its purpose of conveying and influencing human thoughts and experiences. The value of a work to the viewer and society--which is what the NEA judges are judging when they allocate our society's money--depends on both style and content...
...worth of the work of art can be best illustrated by a less controversial example. Few would find fault if a prize were awarded to Richard Wright's Black Boy rather than to Mein Kampf. In these cases, judges must consider the total value the work presents to the viewer or reader and whether they feel morally justified in promoting the work and the beliefs that are inextricably bound...
...photographs in the exhibit are organized in two series: the "Individual in a World of Structure" and the "Grand Jatte' Series." To be honest, were it not for the sparcity of figures in the former series the viewer would not be able to determine where one series ended and the other began. The confusion is compounded because in both series Royal frames construction and industrial forms, and the way humans interact with them...
Over there, across the park, one saw the works of Max Beckmann, Max Ernst, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Oskar Kokoschka and others. The viewer could imagine what demons stood behind them: the creeping Jew, the scheming Bolshevik, the Negro with his thick lips and saxophone, the slavering pervert. In here it was all David and the Apollo Belvedere, noble simplicity and calm grandeur as $ interpreted by such heirs of Michelangelo and Polyclitus as Hitler's favorite sculptor Arno Breker and his court painter Adolf Ziegler. What kind of Germany, the two shows asked, do you want...
This exhibit consists mainly of large scale abstract paintings, including several diptychs. In them, Bush explores color and paint texture, and the result is a lively and captivating compilation. A number of these pieces have been displayed individually at the Triptych Student Gallery over the past year. But the viewer may better appreciate Bush's craft here, because when several of her works are presented together one can grasp their relation to each other...