January 10, 2005
Missed Opportunities
LEADERONIA- The Department of Cultural Affair has released
the latest ART REVIEW by the Great Leader today.
With a delegation of art students from the Pratt Institute the GL
has visited with Her Greatness the recently renewed Brooklyn
Museum on Eastern Parkway.
One of the GL priority was to evaluate the new entrance that
has recieved wide praise by the local media circus, but the GL
was not impressed and lashed out a comment that the Dept. of
Ethics and Freedoms prefers not to report on this Communique.
The Great Leader, known as passionate architophile, was then
disappointed by the "standard institutional look of this once decent
building" and said that " it looks like a bank, or a lazy commercial
center" and more " boring and unispiring".
Polshek Partnership Architects designed the renovation.
Then, after a lift up to the 4th floor the delegation visited the exhibit
"Passing/Posing: Paintings by Kehinde Wiley" a collection of large
oil painted canvases featuring young afro-american males posing as
white powerful male subject of the Renaissance master as Tiepolo,
Tiziano and so on, all very colorful and sprinkled by golden sperms.
The artist, a young one being born in 1977, seems very talented at
painting portraits and using patterns, sometimes kind of clever, but
the overall result , in the Great Leader's opinion, is shallow and geared
toward a simplific commercial avenue, maybe soda or running shoes.
The Great Leader althought did appreciated to browse a volume of art
among the books at the entrance of the exhibit, a book about one of
favorite painters of all time: Jean August Dominique Ingres.
