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Art is objective.
Following your logic, someone could film the rape and murder of your entire family and call it art, no?
jamesrage said:France is one of those Eurotrash countries with anti-free speech laws where they can fine or jail a preacher for saying homosexuality is a sin or fine and or jail someone for offending a Muslim but someone can put a Rosary cross in a jar of piss and call it art and it is not considered hate speech in that country? If this man had taken a plastic figurine of Mohamed and put it in a jar of piss I somehow doubt France would let him hold an exhibit of it and would toss his ass in jail.
Its because many Christians know that there is a double standard. If this was a piss Koran or a Piss Mohamed there is no way in hell this would have been on display in a museum in France and he would have been arrested and or fined for violating hate speech laws. Serrano probably wouldn't have even been allowed to step foot in France.
I think if you take anything a large group of people consider sacred and drop in a jar of piss many people are going to be offended regardless of a what a so called artist claims his interpretation is.
Not necessarily. I didn't say I would one way or the other. However, I interpret "Piss Christ" the way I do because I'm far more aware of Christianity and what many have done to disparage Jesus than I am about Islam and what people have done to disparage Mohammad. I, unlike many people on this forum, am not going to pretend to know enough about Islam to make harsh judgments about it. I interpret "Piss Christ" the way I want to, and the way that the artist himself has admitted to doing so. If you choose to interpret it differently, that's your perogative.
Anybody can claim to be an artist. I donot see the artistic value in putting a crucifix in piss. What talent did it take? Did he mold the crucifix out of plastic, and then drink or eat something that would change the color of his urine? I don't see the talent. Any museum that would allow this to be called "art" isn't much of a museum.
This guy could take a dump, put a candle in it, and voile, art. Complete nonsense.
The guys making a statement, not creating art. He's bogus as an artiste.
Well I don't know that much about Christianity or Islam. I am familiar with piss and ****. I interpret both to be vile and disgusting if I get any on me. Each to their own fetishs I guess.