That Don't Impress Me Much

The artwork at my school falls under one of 3 categories, all of which are not very good:

- abstract
- pornography
- abstract pornography

It seems like it's a game to see what new pieces of offensive artwork you are going to find on the 8th floor of the Fine Arts building while you are on your way to class.  This is the 3rd "exhibition" I guess we can call it of offensive and pornographic artwork displays that I have noticed this year, actually this semester it just started.  In reaction to the first display, many LDS students signed a petition to remove the artwork and relocate it to a private spot within the Fine Arts department, away from being in plain view of the entire student body.

You would think that would be the end of it.  False.  There has been 2 other displays since then that are equally as obsene as the first.  I am baffled as to why they continue to put up these pieces even after many responses of disgust were put forth from the student body.  There is nothing artistic about drawing penises and buttholes and taking pictures of people with large blowup penises and happy expressions on their faces. What a way to celebrate International Women's Day.  Really classy kids, really classy.

What in heaven's name do you hope to achieve by putting up displays like that?  You want attention? CLEARLY.  Clearly no one was thinking about what those pictures are actually saying about the people in them.  Contrary to the image of being liberal, non-conformist, stick-it-to-the-man badass, don't care what other people say hipsters, you actually look ridiculous.  What are you going to say when 30 years down the road, your kids see those pictures?  Can you show those pictures to your grandmother?  You think you are making such a big statement about society but really you are making a bigger statement about yourself that you have no class and no respect for yourself or for other people. 

If you want to express yourself through art and choose to do things like that, that is your choice but do not push that onto the unwilling public.  I do not pay through the nose to go to school to see a huge penis in my face as I am trying to get to class.  Take that offensive material somewhere else because nobody wants to see it.  GROW UP.  Drawing penises isn't funny anymore.