Nothing new, but well stated:
“Art is not what you see,†noted Edgar Degas, “but what you make others see.†Ninety years after his death, a new maxim applies to Europe: The art that you do not see reflects what everyone already sees. And what we see is the preemptive surrender of public freedoms in the name of appeasing the continent’s restive Muslim underclass.
Grayson Perry serves as the ideal poster boy  or perhaps poster girl  for this discomfiting trend. A Turner Prize recipient and England’s most famous cross-dressing potter, Perry has been heralded for his controversial explorations of religious imagery, which include a vase entitled “Transvestite Brides of Christ†and a portrayal of the Virgin Mary that is best left to the imagination. Yet apparently there are some boundaries that even groundbreaking artists dare not cross.
“I’ve censored myself,†Perry told the Times, admitting that he treads lightly around radical Islam. “With other targets you’ve got a better idea of who they are but Islamism is very amorphous. You don’t know what the threshold is. Even what seems an innocuous image might trigger off a really violent reaction so I just play safe all the time.†Self-censorship thus boils down to self-preservation. “The reason I haven’t gone all out attacking Islamism in my art is because I feel real fear that someone will slit my throat.â€Â
Maybe if he got one of those dogs of peaceâ„¢, he could …oh never mind. Islam doesn’t allow pet dogs.
Ok, then can stop with the idea that artists, and they ideas they present are brave?
At least he is intellectually honest enough to admit that the purpose of his art is to offend and that Islam is violent.
As a Christian and an Evangelical I’ve decided that the only way I can prevent the constant stream of artistic insults to my religion is to firebomb an artists studio. They’ll be more careful next time.
The above is so idiotic and narcissistic that I had to bang my head against a concrete block several times in order to complete its construction.
I shall now go and staunch the bleeding.
In other words, he’s a cross dressing* pussy. What a surprise.
*Note to all cross dressers that may be reading this comment, I am not implying that all cross dressers are pussies.
One wishes the interviewer had said, “so, you only criticize that which does not threaten you?”
Classic definition of a bully. In a dress.
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