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Here’s a lovely story highlighting the arrogance and stupidity of the publicly subsidized postmodern artist, via AP/YahooNews: $40,000 Library Mural Misspells Names
LIVERMORE, Calif. – It didn’t take a nuclear physicist to realize changes were needed after a $40,000 ceramic mural was unveiled outside the city’s new library and everyone could see the misspelled names of Einstein, Shakespeare, Vincent Van Gogh, Michelangelo and seven other historical figures.
“Our library director is very frustrated that she has this lovely new library and it has all these misspellings in front,” said city councilwoman Lorraine Dietrich, one of three council members who voted Monday to authorize paying another $6,000, plus expenses, to fly the artist up from Miami to fix the errors.
Reached at her Miami studio Wednesday by The Associated Press, Maria Alquilar said she was willing to fix the brightly colored 16-foot-wide circular work, but offered no apologizes (sic) for the 11 misspellings among the 175 names.
“The importance of this work is that it is supposed to unite people,” Alquilar said. “They are denigrating my work and the purpose of this work.”
Alquilar said it took her quite a bit of her own time and money to create and install the work, and that it sat idle at her Santa Cruz studio for two years until the city cleared the way for its installation.
There were plenty of people around during the installation who could and should have seen the missing and misplaced letters, she said.
“Even though I was on my hands and knees laying the installation out, I didn’t see it,” she said.
The mistakes wouldn’t even register with a true artisan, Alquilar said.
“The people that are into humanities, and are into Blake’s concept of enlightenment, they are not looking at the words,” she said. “In their mind the words register correctly.“
FYI, Alquilar’s website is here. With her philosophy of creative spelling, she’d be a perfect fit for the public schools.
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