I found this piece at the Springville Art Museum about six months ago, when I was taking a group of girls from my boarding school on a field trip. I gently steered my girls away from this piece because I didn't think their young eyes were prepared for its magnificence. I forgot about its resplendent nobility until I was telling a friend about it in Chicago. This oil painting is larger than it looks. It looms. Gloriously, even. Mt. Rushmore. Look at that.
This is the kind of Mormon kitsch that I would really love to own. So I could destroy it.
Or actually, I would place it behind a red curtain and hide it. Then, for a good time, I would pull a golden rope cord to reveal it to select friends. And we would appreciate it the way one should properly appreciate a work of art that carries this magnitude of terrible, horrifying, blasphemously hilarious unmeant mockery.
Who thought this was a good idea? Who thought THIS of all treasures belongs in a museum?
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Omilaws, Emmers. So I opened a bunch of windows and wasn't paying attention to whose blog I was reading when I saw this. I thought it was someone else's blog -- someone who would seriously treasure this forever and ever and bring it to church meetings as a visual aid and everything. And I wanted to throw a tomato, but I didn't have one. Oh, and it would only prove to mess up my monitor, which is no good.
But for YOU ... I will buy this for you. Your intentions I trust and respect.
Uh... wow. I'm really speechless. And I agree with you 100%
Awesome ... and retarded. Awesomely retarded.
Are they really trying to get people to leave the church, because if I ever do, I'm using this as an excuse.
put that on a shirt and wear it on p-day.
*snicker*
That is so funny! Ah, Mormon Art... what are the requirements exactly?
unbelievable. if you do ever own this and have a destruction party, please put me on the guest list.
Ha ha! Kitsch indeed.
great post. now i know what to buy you for your wedding gift! that and a can of gasoline and a lighter.
This scares me.
Was the artist serious? If so, even better!
My favorite Mormon artists 4 reals: Minerva Teichert and Brian Kershisnik.
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