Chapter 13 what!red!

Is the director of the museum an artist or a political officer? If the news reports are not biased, then the situation is as follows: Li Zaiqian's sculpture was exhibited in the Municipal Art Museum, and some people wrote a letter saying that the painting was painted red, which looked like the red star of the CCP; curator Su Ruiping was kind, and immediately put the work on display. He spent 8,000 yuan to change the painting to silver, which was protested by the sculptor himself.Is it a small thing?I think it is very serious, because "little things" reveal two mentalities that cannot be tolerated in a civilized society: the first is the extreme contempt for art, and the second is the political leadership that only exists in a totalitarian system.

Not long ago, I received a "Newsletter from the Chinese Catholic Cultural Association" and found that one of the articles "Looking at the West with Right Eyes" was reproduced in it.The article is mine, and my name is indeed mine, but a strange sentence suddenly appeared in the content: "Christianity--Catholicism, Christian belief, because it first came to the West, and we think it is a foreign religion, it is not suitable to believe in, in fact, God Son Jesus Christ, the savior of mankind, was originally born in the Middle East..." This passage was sneakily mixed into my article, but I did not write it!But no reader can see that this text does not belong to the original text.

This Catholic publication published other people's articles without obtaining reprint permission from the newspaper or the author in advance. This is an act of plundering other people's intellectual property.However, altering works and deciphering them to achieve their own goals is deception for readers and slander for authors.If a religious group can redact my article, then a politically ambitious group can also insert its propaganda language into my text-how can an author clarify to the world what he has written?Who will bear the consequences of writing? I believe that the Catholic Association has no malice in altering my article, but what such behavior reveals is extreme contempt for the creator.As a writer, I am responsible for every word I write; each essay is the result of my whole-hearted effort and all my intellect.It is a crime and an insult to arbitrarily alter a work.If Li Zailing's works are red, then he must have his most sincere reasons; only that color can truly express the meaning of his creation, if the color is changed, the sculpture will no longer be his work.Su Ruiping altered the creation of an artist without authorization, just like the Catholic Association altered my article without authorization. The article that has changed beyond recognition is no longer my work, and the red-to-silver sculpture is no longer the brainchild of Li Zailing.This behavior is called deception, called theft.It seems to me that the Catholic Association's behavior is just the result of ill-consideration, which may be forgiven; it is unbelievable that a curator of an art museum would do such a thing!

What is even more worrying is that this "little incident" of coloring clearly shows that Taiwan's art is still shrouded in the vague political shadow.First of all, we have a person who goes to an art gallery. What he looks at is not the artwork itself. On the contrary, when he sees such a red work, he immediately feels political fear (fear that the sculptor is the Communist Party? Afraid that red is harmful to viewing People have the effect of brainwashing? Afraid that the Communist Party will take pictures of this work for publicity?) and wrote this suspicious letter to the museum.

Secondly, we have such an art museum director who doesn't use his brain.There are generally only two possible motives for her altering the works: First, she also has the fear of the contributor; because she agrees that red has a political crisis, she changed the color.Second, she disagreed with the author's statement, but in order to avoid the possible sensitivity of "relevant units" and because of her status as an "official", she thought that changing the color was the safest and least troublesome way. And finally, there is the sculptor himself.In his protest, he said, how could it be counted if only one person voted for it!This means that if two people or a hundred people voted that red has "politics", then the act of changing the color is not wrong.

This coloring event is performed by three people: citizens, cultural officials, and artists.None of the three felt that there was anything fundamentally wrong with politics interfering with art.How is this going?The citizen who submitted the letter suffers from a phobia. We can say that he just doesn't understand the importance of artistic independence, which can be forgiven.So what about Su Ruiping?Did she have any artistic training?Did she understand the responsibilities of being an art gallery director?Is she a political officer or an artist?As for Li Zaiqian, whose work has been altered, does he really think that politics has a reason to control art with a few more letters?

This is really like a society that treats a deer as a horse. ·Response and Challenge· blood is also red Meng Xiangsen Read Long Yingtai's "Ah!red! "I have to say something. First of all, you must declare like Long Yingtai: "If the news report is correct", because I didn't even see that news report. Secondly, I have to ask whether Su Ruiping, the curator of the Municipal Art Museum, had the "true color" (red) of the work first before "immediately changing the work (Li Zaiqian's sculpture) to silver at a cost of 8,000 yuan". Remove it with sandpaper, or dissolve and wash it off with a melting agent such as pine water.

Because, this is an "absolutely" critical issue: if Li Zaiqian's sculpture is really star-shaped and red, it is only superficially "painted" with silver, "absolutely" is the problem Significant, because that's "whitewashing," it's "covering," it's "covering"—and what is it that's whitewashing, hiding, or covering?It is "Red Star"!This is even scarier and more dangerous than the naked "red star", because the naked red star can be seen by everyone at a glance-didn't some citizens point it out in a letter? ——However, the whitewashed, concealed and shielded red star is enough to "cover people's eyes and ears", making people turn a blind eye, see but not see clearly, and make people "unclear". , who can know?This is "concealing evil intentions", and the crime should be—what?I dare not speak, let the citizen who submitted the letter judge and make a verdict!

Therefore, the way to repent and avoid disaster is to "wash" off the silver first, and then send someone to "wash" off the red hidden in the silver - remember, it must be washed cleanly, even Not a single bit of scum is allowed to remain—and then, you can’t paint it with silver, you must first invite people from all walks of life—including of course the original submitter—to look at it from all angles and micro angles from up, down, left, right, in all directions , Is that sculpture of Li Zaiqian in the shape of a "star" or "possibly" in the shape of a star, or even "must" be in the shape of a star? Sand it off, what does it look like?It is to polish it into a shape that can never be a star, absolutely, never can be a star, so that it is "safe" and "no problem", and then, it can never be a star things, paint them in silver—note, you can paint them in any color, but you can’t paint them in red. Yellow, because, unfortunately, in the "Five-Star Flag" of the CCP, its pattern—that is, the star—is not red, but "yellow". Therefore, not only the red star is unusable, but even the yellow star is also problematic ——In this way, remove all possibilities of the star shape and paint it in silver, and then mark it as "Li Zaiqian's work"—that's right, this is what Su Ruiping, the director of the Municipal Art Museum, should do .

In fact, this is not surprising. More than 20 years ago, when we were studying in university, we heard our gentle and elegant aesthetics teacher, Mr. Yu Junzhi, tell us that a certain young abstract painter had a profile exhibition in a certain country. After his abstract works were pointed out, the words "Mao XX" were hidden in his abstract paintings, so the crowd was uproarious, and the painter was detained by the public security unit for questioning. something happened. Up to now, I still clearly remember the extremely elusive smile on Mr. Yu's very obvious face. ※ ※ ※ Let me give another example to embolden the citizen who wrote the book and director Su Ruiping: about half a year ago (of course, "if the news report is not biased", but I saw that news report with my own eyes), a certain When a female councilor was inspecting Zhonggang Road leading to Wuqi Port in Taizhong, she suddenly found that the street trees on both sides of Zhonggang Road were full of yellow flowers.This was a disaster, she rushed back to the government office immediately, and said: "The big road is full of yellow flowers, what's the point, our Taichung City has become a "yellow city", so I suggest that the mayor cut down all those trees." , another kind of tree—as for what kind of tree it is, I don’t know, anyway, it can’t bloom yellow flowers, and of course it can’t bloom red flowers, otherwise, it’s either yellow or red, so it’s okay!

It's a pity that the mayor of Taichung at that time did not "follow good people like others". I think the reason why he dared to be so stubborn was probably because the street trees on Zhonggang Road were only yellow flowers, not red flowers, and the female councilor's senator One book only said that "Taichung City may become a yellow city" rather than a "red" city. Otherwise, it would be strange if the shoulders of the mayor of Taichung were not crushed by her, and even if the two rows of street trees on Zhonggang Road did not Even uprooting would cost each tree about 8,000 yuan and send someone to "paint" it silver. To be honest, I think these things are still very small things, just a mere work of Li Zaiqian, just a mere two rows of street trees on Zhonggang Road in Taichung City, the important thing is yet to come : The most important thing is to cut down all the poinciana trees in Tainan City, because the poinciana tree is not bad. From April to September, for half a year, no flowers bloom, but it turns red, and the worst Yes, its petals are five petals (it seems; anyway, it doesn't matter if they are really five petals), and Tainan City has become a red city, or even a red star city in half a year? If the red color is so terrible, if it goes on like this, we have to draw blood from 18 million people one by one, or invent a "healthy" bleach to bleach the blood - because the color of blood is also red of!