Parody and Laughter as Criticism |
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Asylum Sextet Parody and laughter sometimes serve as the best criticism A civilized and nondestructive of expressing opinions is by doctoring reproductions of of supposed masterpiece. Tampering in this way eliminates a need for lengthy explanations. Shocking philistine behavior some might at first exclaim, but I assure you that it is quite traditional. Artists, especially surrealists have tampered with famous paintings for various reasons. Dadaists when they could afford it would even doctor original Academic works, as did Miro and others. Both Duchamp and Dali did some famous tampering with copies of the Mona Lisa and Picasso in some sense did little else. Click on small pictures to enlarge
Some examples of creative doctoring.
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Before the advent of the Internet this kind of criticism was impossible.
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