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Quantim art: More art genius from Northern Iowa
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Quantim art: More art genius from Northern Iowa
By DENNIS CLAYSON
Another University of Northern Iowa graduate has burst onto the New York art scene. News of Lotta Sales has been found in a number of art journals, and she recently had a very favorable review of her work in the Village Voice. Her excursions into Quantum art have become an East Coast sensation.
Recently, I reported the latest about Justin Case and the Refusalist movement he started. During the heady days at the University of Northern Iowa, now referred to nostalgically as “The Case Era,” Lotta was just another “Iowa kid” searching for a major. She had come to UNI to become a teacher, but when she saw what Case had done, and read about the principles of Refusalism, she changed her major to art.
The principles of Refusalism are, as all good art movements must be, simple but intellectually gratifying, allowing one to think without actually thinking. Case realized that since modern art was largely ugly and unskilled, and could be produced by almost anyone, it must be a cognitive and emotional activity.
Case theorized that art must be a mental exercise and as such could never have an adequate physical representation. Therefore, true art could only be visualized by the artist but never actually produced. The artist must “refuse” to produce the physical expression of the mental exercise.
Lotta Sales, after graduating from UNI, gravitated to New York and found some success producing Refusalist art. Her specialty was very large blank spaces, because her concepts were very large and expansive.
Lotta had produced a piece titled “Three Nudes,” which consisted of nudes whose bodies were mirrors. If you could look at one, you would have seen only yourself. The piece was very popular with female activists.
Sales’ movement into Quantum art came after a bad personal experience.
She had just broken off with her latest girlfriend when she passed by her own art in the museum. Looking at the blank wall, she saw three nudes, but their bodies were now blood red instead of mirrors.
“How could this be?” she thought.
Once an art piece is produced in Refusalism, there is nothing in the philosophical foundation to allow the concept to change; a concept is a concept. Lotta realized that the mental image could change, but more important, the concept may never have been fully developed or complete at any given time. The best that could be said was that the concept was in some sort of probabilistic space that could only be resolved by an observer, but an observer was impossible because the art was Refusalistic.
Fortunately, Lotta had not spent all her time in art and elementary education classes, she had also taken a course in physics and realized that a piece of Refusalist art actually existed in a probabilistic time relationship that could be approximated by Born’s interpretation of Schrodinger’s wave equation.
Hence the term “Quantum art.”
Sales caused a sensation in the New York art community when she produced a piece of art titled “Schrodinger’s Box.” First, she conceived of 50 different pieces of Refusalist art. Refusalists, of course, are very prolific. She numbered them and then an assistant, using the data from an astrological chart, picked a number. Without Lotta seeing the result, the nameplate for the piece identified by the number was placed within a closed box.
An art critic in New York said the following, “Sales’ art is the essence of genius, the personification of Refusalism, ironically not in the refusal, but in the teasing of objectivity. What art object is in the box? Each is in a state of suggestive and tantalizing probability. Sales takes the bold and seminal act of placing a handle on the box, tempting, almost seducing, the viewer to grasp it and open the box, and in so doing, resolve the quantum state of the art.”
“Yet, if a viewer is so seduced and was to open the box, the act of observing would resolve the paradox, reducing the art and the box itself to just another profane object. Without the paradox, the art disappears!”
“What is in the box? Sales’ response was both profound and profoundly tantalizing. “There is nothing in the box. There is everything in the box. It is art, and it is not art.”
The piece sold at auction last Friday for $2.4 million. The new owner will not say whether he will open the box.
Editor’s note: This column is a work of satire. Neither Lotta Sales nor Justin Case really exists. Refusalist art, also, is a creation of Dennis Clayson.
Recently, I reported the latest about Justin Case and the Refusalist movement he started. During the heady days at the University of Northern Iowa, now referred to nostalgically as “The Case Era,” Lotta was just another “Iowa kid” searching for a major. She had come to UNI to become a teacher, but when she saw what Case had done, and read about the principles of Refusalism, she changed her major to art.
The principles of Refusalism are, as all good art movements must be, simple but intellectually gratifying, allowing one to think without actually thinking. Case realized that since modern art was largely ugly and unskilled, and could be produced by almost anyone, it must be a cognitive and emotional activity.
Case theorized that art must be a mental exercise and as such could never have an adequate physical representation. Therefore, true art could only be visualized by the artist but never actually produced. The artist must “refuse” to produce the physical expression of the mental exercise.
Lotta Sales, after graduating from UNI, gravitated to New York and found some success producing Refusalist art. Her specialty was very large blank spaces, because her concepts were very large and expansive.
Lotta had produced a piece titled “Three Nudes,” which consisted of nudes whose bodies were mirrors. If you could look at one, you would have seen only yourself. The piece was very popular with female activists.
Sales’ movement into Quantum art came after a bad personal experience.
She had just broken off with her latest girlfriend when she passed by her own art in the museum. Looking at the blank wall, she saw three nudes, but their bodies were now blood red instead of mirrors.
“How could this be?” she thought.
Once an art piece is produced in Refusalism, there is nothing in the philosophical foundation to allow the concept to change; a concept is a concept. Lotta realized that the mental image could change, but more important, the concept may never have been fully developed or complete at any given time. The best that could be said was that the concept was in some sort of probabilistic space that could only be resolved by an observer, but an observer was impossible because the art was Refusalistic.
Fortunately, Lotta had not spent all her time in art and elementary education classes, she had also taken a course in physics and realized that a piece of Refusalist art actually existed in a probabilistic time relationship that could be approximated by Born’s interpretation of Schrodinger’s wave equation.
Hence the term “Quantum art.”
Sales caused a sensation in the New York art community when she produced a piece of art titled “Schrodinger’s Box.” First, she conceived of 50 different pieces of Refusalist art. Refusalists, of course, are very prolific. She numbered them and then an assistant, using the data from an astrological chart, picked a number. Without Lotta seeing the result, the nameplate for the piece identified by the number was placed within a closed box.
An art critic in New York said the following, “Sales’ art is the essence of genius, the personification of Refusalism, ironically not in the refusal, but in the teasing of objectivity. What art object is in the box? Each is in a state of suggestive and tantalizing probability. Sales takes the bold and seminal act of placing a handle on the box, tempting, almost seducing, the viewer to grasp it and open the box, and in so doing, resolve the quantum state of the art.”
“Yet, if a viewer is so seduced and was to open the box, the act of observing would resolve the paradox, reducing the art and the box itself to just another profane object. Without the paradox, the art disappears!”
“What is in the box? Sales’ response was both profound and profoundly tantalizing. “There is nothing in the box. There is everything in the box. It is art, and it is not art.”
The piece sold at auction last Friday for $2.4 million. The new owner will not say whether he will open the box.
Editor’s note: This column is a work of satire. Neither Lotta Sales nor Justin Case really exists. Refusalist art, also, is a creation of Dennis Clayson.
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Independent wrote on Nov 23, 2008 2:04 PM:
" The WCF should get the money they paid Clayson back, after this attempt. "
Independent wrote on Nov 23, 2008 3:07 PM:
" Is this Clayson's rebutal to cross1242?
The ultimate "straw man", essay?
Not clever and not worthy of the paper it was printed on. "
The ultimate "straw man", essay?
Not clever and not worthy of the paper it was printed on. "
Spenser wrote on Nov 23, 2008 3:38 PM:
" Even the WCF editors are posting comments on Clayson's work.
Presumably the editors note was added because they knew you wouldnt comprehend the article. "
Presumably the editors note was added because they knew you wouldnt comprehend the article. "
Independent wrote on Nov 23, 2008 6:47 PM:
" Spenser, I don't get Clayson's articles any week, with or without editors notes. "
Independent wrote on Nov 23, 2008 9:17 PM:
" By the way Spense, what did you get out of the article, besides hating me? "
hfrmack wrote on Nov 23, 2008 10:29 PM:
" It’s called a “parable”.
I didn’t know Clayson had it in him.
It isn’t the best one I’ve read, but it’s not bad either.
I had to read it a couple of times my self to get it.
For those of you who don’t get it, try re-reading it a time or two more.
Very clever…it might be tougher for “Democrat/Liberal/Progressive/Socialist” readers to comprehend, but if you open your mind, the truth can be revealed.
I even saw some critique in this parable of Republicans, though very small.
But that is just my perspective. The “art” is in the eye of the beholder…
(The Editor’s note was for obvious reasons.)
-hfrmack "
I didn’t know Clayson had it in him.
It isn’t the best one I’ve read, but it’s not bad either.
I had to read it a couple of times my self to get it.
For those of you who don’t get it, try re-reading it a time or two more.
Very clever…it might be tougher for “Democrat/Liberal/Progressive/Socialist” readers to comprehend, but if you open your mind, the truth can be revealed.
I even saw some critique in this parable of Republicans, though very small.
But that is just my perspective. The “art” is in the eye of the beholder…
(The Editor’s note was for obvious reasons.)
-hfrmack "
jeroze wrote on Nov 23, 2008 11:10 PM:
" We wait with great anticipation to see who will acclaim this as a right on the target column by Professor Clayson.
Suggestion, maybe it would not be wise to hold your breath. "
Suggestion, maybe it would not be wise to hold your breath. "
cf1981 wrote on Nov 23, 2008 11:22 PM:
" maybe clayson FINALLY realized his weekly rants against obama and all things progressive were going nowhere.............. "
Kramerica wrote on Nov 24, 2008 8:35 AM:
" Indy, Spense's suggestion that you didn't understand the article (as usual) qualifies as HATING you? Please. You libs need new tricks. "
Phil wrote on Nov 24, 2008 2:01 PM:
" All I can say is that when it comes to satire, Mr. Clayson will never be confused for Mark Twain.
He will just be thought of as confused - period. "
He will just be thought of as confused - period. "
hetfield wrote on Nov 24, 2008 2:01 PM:
" Not only is hfrmack right on, but clayson also has some liberal slaps buried in here. From Quantom physics and Schrodinger. I love the Sales and empty box part as well. sounds just like the liberals and the magic b hussein will spin. but if you look closely they are nothing but empty promises.
"The piece sold at auction last Friday for $2.4 million. The new owner will not say whether he will open the box"
In a nutshell! buy it, but be careful. You DONT know what's in there. "
"The piece sold at auction last Friday for $2.4 million. The new owner will not say whether he will open the box"
In a nutshell! buy it, but be careful. You DONT know what's in there. "
Adversary wrote on Nov 24, 2008 2:02 PM:
" Well, I see that they fixed their spelling error. Initially, the headline said, "Quantim." "
Phil wrote on Nov 24, 2008 5:27 PM:
" So the empty box is either George Bush's head or the government he put in place - either one is a fitting metaphor. Refusalism is the way his government refused to do anything the right way. And the $2.4 million is how we taxpayers are left paying for a lot of nothing - the Bush deficit and the recent bailout.
Pretty straightforward I would say.
Still not as good as Mark Twain would have done it. "
Pretty straightforward I would say.
Still not as good as Mark Twain would have done it. "
hfrmack wrote on Nov 24, 2008 10:33 PM:
" Phil wrote on Nov 24, 2008 5:27 PM:
" So the empty box is either George Bush's head or the government he put in place...
No Phil,
The empty box is the space between your ears. "
" So the empty box is either George Bush's head or the government he put in place...
No Phil,
The empty box is the space between your ears. "
jeroze wrote on Nov 25, 2008 7:00 AM:
" Returning to the subject of last week and how the press allegedly went soft for Obama, and what will the press be like with the president elect Barack Obama,
HEAR YE , HEAR YE
Today an associated press writer, Beth Fouhy used the description of "bully pulpit" to describe Obama's message that we can't wait because of the urgency to do something now to stop the free fall of the market and the need to repair it and stop the free fall.
Anybody still want to say the MSM is giving Obama favored treatment? I would challenge again the Rushy, Foxy, Hannitizing, UnReally, people to take note. "
HEAR YE , HEAR YE
Today an associated press writer, Beth Fouhy used the description of "bully pulpit" to describe Obama's message that we can't wait because of the urgency to do something now to stop the free fall of the market and the need to repair it and stop the free fall.
Anybody still want to say the MSM is giving Obama favored treatment? I would challenge again the Rushy, Foxy, Hannitizing, UnReally, people to take note. "
Anthony wrote on Nov 25, 2008 1:35 PM:
" cf1981? do you really think that this piece is NOT about Obama. Hmm, interesting. "
Kramerica wrote on Nov 25, 2008 1:42 PM:
" Jeroze, THAT'S your example? You've GOT to be kidding me. I'm sorry I even posted, as it's not even worth the debate. "
jeroze wrote on Nov 25, 2008 2:48 PM:
" kAmerica: You are right of course...far right perhaps, but also correct...this whole issue is sour grapes for Professor Clayson and his crew. My blog is illustrative of how the CC (Clayson Crew) have made mountains out of molehills. "
hetfield wrote on Nov 25, 2008 5:35 PM:
" The piece sold at auction last Friday for $2.4 million. The new owner will not say whether he will open the box.
the empty box is b hussein and his empty promises. he has done nothing to warrant the presidency.
when you liberals open the box, you will get nothing but huge taxation, deficits and huge spending.
it has already started with no blame buyt on the left. "
the empty box is b hussein and his empty promises. he has done nothing to warrant the presidency.
when you liberals open the box, you will get nothing but huge taxation, deficits and huge spending.
it has already started with no blame buyt on the left. "
hfrmack wrote on Nov 25, 2008 7:20 PM:
" Phil wrote on Nov 25, 2008 3:06 PM:
Then someone owes me $2.4 Million.
Oh, so you're the one that bought the peice at auction last Friday, huh?
Will you not say if you will open the box? "
Then someone owes me $2.4 Million.
Oh, so you're the one that bought the peice at auction last Friday, huh?
Will you not say if you will open the box? "
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Independent wrote on Nov 23, 2008 10:41 AM:
I will be laughing all day! "