“By their fruits you shall know them” (Mt. 7:16). The art of a given social milieu is a part of the fruit it bears as the argument and justification of its existence. I present to you the hideous, rotting garbage that our federal government displays before the whole world as its representative sculpture art in its national sculpture garden.
Compare with ancient Rome (picture depicts copy of Roman original) or even the often-ignored relief Ex Nihilo on the west facade of the Washington National Cathedral. Why would we eschew good, artistically significant scuplture in favor of vaguely artisic-seeming, repulsive nihilism? Why wasn’t Frederick Hart commissioned as a national sculptor? One can only wonder.
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