No respect for beauty that was characteristic of todays society. The works of the great masters were at most employed as ironic references, or used in advertising. Michelangelos The Creation of Adam, where you see a pair of jeans in place of the spark. The whole point of the picture, at least as he saw it, was that these two monumental bodies each came to an end in two index fingers that almost, but not quite, touched. There was a space between them a millimetre or so wide. And in this space life. The sculptural size and richness of detail of this picture was simply a frame, a backdrop, to emphasise the crucial void in its centre. The point of emptiness that contained everything. And in its place a person had superimposed a pair of jeans.
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About John Ajvide Lindqvist, Let the Right One In
John Ajvide Lindqvist, Let the Right One In.
Themes
- Art — Creativity, expression, and the role of art in society