Apr 30th, 2016: Vagina Flower
Georgia O'Keeffe, as an artist/painter trained in photography, she not only had an eye for detail, she could recognize what details were important. Being on the cutting edge of modernism, she was a controversial painter, who the art critics hashed ad infinitum. One of the discussions was O'Keeffe's huge close up flowers and their sexual meaning.
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Enter Allison Wint, a 24-year-old substitute art teacher, who was fired from Harper Creek Middle School in Battle Creek, Mich., for using the word vagina in the classroom discussion. In this case "substitute" is slightly misleading. The former teacher had retired a couple moths ago and Ms Wint had cleaned, reorganized, and restocked with her own money, the classroom she thought she would take over. But was given one hour to get the fuck out. http://cellar.org/2016/ateacher.jpg Photo on the left, WAPO, and Detroit Free Press. Photo on the right, M(Michigan)Live Quote:
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Many years ago I worked as the part-time receptionist & classifieds clerk for a little newspaper up on Capitol Hill in Seattle. That painting brings back the memory of hoofing it down the hill on my lunch break to have one of the fantastic burritos sold at the Wildrose, a very very lesbian-friendly daytime cafe/nighttime bar/full-time habitat for awesome women and those who loved them and their company. They must've had like 15 O'Keeffe prints on the walls. In case they're not open any more but the description sounds familiar, I think they were just a few doors uphill from Toys In Babeland.
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Oh, and under no circumstances do I support the firing of the teacher. I learned the word "vagina" WAY before 8th grade, and doing so did not make me a lesbian, an anarchist, a terrorist, a sexual predator, or a serial killer. I'm a little weird, yeah, but not because I knew how not to get knocked up the first time I had sex.
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However, You wanna talk about vagina art? This guy is not only The Best Artist but he is a champion of the vagina in art.
When I was about 17 I met him and hung out at his studio from time to time, He was at the time, and I'm sure still is, an exceptional person. When you read about him in art criticism magazines he is almost categorically dismissed. It's easy to look at his work with a cynical eye, and think he, like a lot of other artists was in it for the recognition. Granted, I was only a teenager but the guy I met was passionate about his beliefs, very emotional about rights and wrongs, and was, in my opinion, trying to open people's minds, get them to engage, and think. Think about sex, religion, art, ideas, life, what is important and what isn't. He railed against hypocrisy in the church and the art world. Looking at the current incarnation of his website, I can't say I fully understand it, but I recall that he liked to be elusive about meaning; it keeps people thinking and asking, I guess. You have to hunt around with the links but some of his vagina paintings are there, although small. The thing that is unfortunate is that none of his small pen and ink drawings of vaginas are there. They were astounding small drawings about 2 to 3 inches high, as I remember, of vaginal lips. He used a pointillist technique and the lips became gateways, creatures like butterflies (I am not 100% clear on all of the details, but remember being blown away by them. All that being said, no one holds a candle to the Catholics when it comes to vagina art. You don't even have to squint to see the unmistakable form. |
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It's certainly a subject of interest to the majority. One time I complimented one on it's attractiveness, and It's owner got indignant, called me a liar, declaring they all looked alike. I was appalled by her ignorance, but through sheer will power I resisted telling her to get dressed and leave. |
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