{"id":21672,"date":"2010-12-29T22:54:58","date_gmt":"2010-12-30T02:54:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=21672"},"modified":"2010-12-29T22:59:05","modified_gmt":"2010-12-30T02:59:05","slug":"if-that-is-being-disrespectful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=21672","title":{"rendered":"If that is being disrespectful."},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the stories that is going around is this one<\/a>. It seems that the group that contracted the picture decided that it should be removed. Many people at a loss as why, can you guess why?<\/p>\n

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But it is clear that this is just a obvious case of censorship.<\/p>\n

\nSeveral art bloggers denounced the museum’s act as censorship, comparing it to the recent removal of David Wojnarowicz’s “A Fire in My Belly” video from the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n

Daniel Lahoda, founder of LA Freewalls Project downtown and one of the few people to photograph the work as it was being removed, said that the street art community is “really upset by this \u2014 everyone is talking about it.”<\/p>\n

“If you’re planning on mounting the largest graffiti show in a major institution, you’ve got to give the artists the freedom to do the movement justice \u2014 so there’s a big failure in what just happened,” he says. “The last thing we want is an art institution, someone supposed to support creativity, to destroy it.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Except that the museum paid for it and guess what, the people paying your commission have a big say into what they want painted. So do not act shocked that they painted over a painting that they paid for on their property. But it gets better because “L.A. Museum’s Destruction of Anti-War Art Disrespects Veterans”<\/a><\/p>\n

Much of the anti-war movement is led by veterans, who’ve seen firsthand that these wars aren’t making us safer and aren’t worth the cost. If Deitch talked to more veterans rather than making blanket assumptions about their viewpoints, he might be surprised to find that many, many veterans stridently oppose the wars being fought by the U.S. at present. For example, the video Rethink Afghanistan<\/a> published on Veterans Day featured veterans denouncing the war in Afghanistan as an unjust war. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Except considering the past “veterans” that have been coming from the anti-war camp and considering how stories in how returning vets,<\/a> are used as prompts, one has to wonder what their idea of respect is. <\/p>\n

\nHere’s an interesting thought experiment: imagine if Blu had painted a mural celebrating, rather than dissenting from, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. What if the mural had depicted the war in Afghanistan as a conflict that served American interests, where our team, including our allies in Kabul, were the Good Guys and our adversaries the Bad Guys. In other words, if Blu had lied through his art, rather than using it to tell the truth, would Deitch have painted over it? Maybe, but I doubt it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Except that they still do no get it, it does not matter what the subject is. If the person that is paying you to paint says that they do not like it, they have a right to reject it. Regardless of what the theme or subject matter is. <\/p>\n

But do not try to use our name when you are upset about it when the owners paint over you picture that they paid for on their own building. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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