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The Resurrection of Art
Moving on from Dada

April 4, 2006


Why would well-heeled folks dress up to attend a fancy gathering where they could admire a urinal? Because it's art, of course! Or, at least, so they think.

This spring's Dada exhibit at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., celebrates what the Washington Post describes as "the most radical, irreverent, rule-breaking movement in the history of Western art."

In case you're unfamiliar, the term dada means exactly what it sounds like: nonsense. As H. R. Rookmaaker described it, Dada "was a nihilistic creed of disintegration, showing the meaninglessness of all Western thought, art, morals, traditions." It raises the common to the level of the revered. Hence, Marcel Duchamp sticks a urinal on a wall and titles it "Fountain."

It's odd that the movement's fans laud it as great art, because Dada by definition seeks the demise of art. Echoing Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead, Nathanael Blake writes at Townhall.com, "to abolish art, you declare a manufactured urinal to be a masterpiece."

Some say the Dada movement continued the destruction of art that began with cubism, which preceded it. German Dada artist Kurt Schwitters said he built "new things . . . out of fragments." Post writer Michael O'Sullivan describes Dada as "a putting back together of a broken, senseless world [after World War I], only not with the glue of logic, and not in any sense back to the way things were."

And there, you see, is the problem. Dada sees the fragmentation of the world—and celebrates that brokenness. But true artists "do not merely reflect the world's brokenness," writes Erik Lokkesmoe in BreakPoint WorldView magazine. "The truth-telling artists, rather, also remind us there is more to the story . . . and call us to rise from our defensive crouch to again pursue the faith, hope, and love that abide even in the valley of death."

"In every time and place and in every culture," writes Jerry Eisley, founder of the Washington Arts Group, "art has ultimately flowed from worship." However, artists since the early twentieth century have abandoned the "idea of an ideal measure of goodness and truth linked with beauty." The splintering and extreme individualism that characterize modern art are indicative of the spirit of the postmodern age. Yes, this world is broken, but the role of the artist is to point us toward wholeness.

Art is not dead, however, nor has the Church abandoned it, as illustrated by the resurgence of Christians in the arts—people like Lokkesmoe and Eisley. And another believer whose art flows from her worship of God is Kim Daus-Edwards. Kim's latest work is her book of photographs, Force of the Spirit, that "represents a surrender to the idea of the holy through the medium of photography." These black-and-white images are coupled with Scripture and draw in the viewer to meditate on universal truths. "Even though we may turn away from it, the Spirit's power is ever-present and emerges regularly in our lives," she says.

The world may be broken and seem random, but that is not the end of truth. And true art points toward the ultimate restoration of our fallen existence. Too bad the National Gallery of Art doesn't realize that.







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The Collegiate Network's annual nod to the PC ninnies of American academia, the Pollys, are out today.

Yale University takes the top award for admitting a former Taliban bigwig with a fourth-grade education -- in the name of diversity, of course.

DePaul University also gets a nod for, as the judges put it, declaring war on free speech.

"First, the university suspended -- without a hearing -- a veteran adjunct professor for daring to debate students handing out pro-Palestinian literature on campus. Next, the administration branded as 'propaganda' a College Republican protest of a Ward Churchill speech on campus. Finally, college officials shut down an affirmative action bake-sale sponsored by the campus conservative club and charged the club member who organized the event with harassment," the network says.

The third place award is shared by officials from Stanford University and at the College of the Holy Cross, both of which tried to silence conservative alternative newspapers on their campuses after The Stanford Review and Holy Cross' The Fenwick Review mocked or criticized sacred PC cows on campus.

Cross-Wise

A Traditional Values club at a high school in Michigan is being told it can't put a flag up along with all the other special interest clubs, according to the Livingston Daily, and its members are wondering why they can't but the school Diversity Club can hang a gay pride flag at the school.

Members of the Traditional Values Club have been told their flag -- which features a red, lowercase "T" set in a blue field in the upper-left-hand corner of the white flag -- looks too much like a cross. About 40 members of Howell's staff said the cross- or T-bearing flag should not hang on school grounds because it is an illegal endorsement of Christianity.

Even the ACLU said it had no problem with the Traditional Values Clubflag. Since the club was started by students, said Executive Director Kary Moss, its actions are not being endorsed by the schools

Fruity

The president of Hobart and William Smith Colleges in upstate New York, Mark Gearan, is complaining about his school's sports fans mocking the rival Syracuse Orangemen with tee shirts that read, "At least our mascot isn't a fruit," according to the Finger Lakes Gazette.

Gearan said use of the term might be misinterpreted as a derogatory reference to gays, making its use "especially painful to many because of our commitment to diversity, equity and social justice."

Chicken 'Basketball?'

The good folks at United Poultry Concerns are calling on the owner of a tourist attraction in South Dakota to close an exhibit that features chickens playing tic-tac-toe and basketball inside giant slot machines.

UPC wants Reptile Gardens in Rapid City to close the attraction and to "develop alternative programs that teach respect for the relationship that chickens and other birds share with reptiles in the course of evolution."

"Chicken basketball and tic tac toe should have no place at Reptile Gardens," said UPC president Karen Davis. "These games contradict the wholesome family outing image fostered by the company. No animal should be presented to the public as a slot-machine gadget."
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Seek the Lord while He may be found;
call on Him while He is near. Let the
wicked forsake his way and the evil
man his thoughts. Let him turn to the
Lord, and He will have mercy on him,
and to our God, for He will freely
pardon. "For My thoughts are not
your thoughts, neither are your ways
My ways," declares the Lord. "As the
heavens are higher than the earth, so
are My ways higher than your ways
and My thoughts than your thoughts.
As the rain and the snow come down
from heaven, and do not return to it
without watering the earth and making
it bud and flourish, so that it yields seed
for the sower and bread for the eater,
so is My word that goes out from My
mouth: It will not return to Me empty,
but will accomplish what I desire and
achieve the purpose for which I sent it.
You will go out in joy and be led forth
in peace; the mountains and hills will
burst into song before you, and all the
trees of the field will clap their hands.
Instead of the thornbush will grow the
pine tree, and instead of briers the myrtle
will grow. This will be for the Lord's
renown, for an everlasting sign, which
will not be destroyed." Is 55

O Lord, you have searched me and you
know me. You know when I sit and when
I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar.
You discern my going out and my lying
down; you are familiar with all my ways.
Before a word is on my tongue you know
it completely, O Lord. You hem me in -
behind and before; you have laid your
hand upon me. Such knowledge is too
wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain.

Where can I go from your Spirit? Where
can I flee from your presence? If I go up
to the heavens, you are there; if I make
my bed in the depths, you are there.

If I rise on the wings of the dawn,
if I settle on the far side of the sea,
even there your hand will guide me,
your right hand will hold me fast.

If I say, "Surely the darkness will hide
me and the light become night around
me," even the darkness will not be dark
to you; the night will shine like the day,
for darkness is as light to you. For you
created my inmost being; you knit me
together in my mother's womb. I praise
you because I am fearfully and wonderfully
made; your works are wonderful, I know
that full well. My frame was not hidden
from you when I was made in the secret
place. When I was woven together in the
depths of the earth, your eyes saw my
unformed body. All the days ordained
for me were written in your book before
one of them came to be.

How precious to me are your thoughts,
O God! How vast is the sum of them!
Were I to count them, they would
outnumber the grains of sand. When
I awake, I am still with you. Search me,
O God, and know my heart; test me
and know my anxious thoughts. See
if there is any offensive way in me,
and lead me in the way everlasting.
Ps 139

But indeed for this purpose I have raised you up,
that I may show My power in you, and that My
Name may be declared in all the earth. Ex 9:16


When I survey the wondrous cross
On which the Prince of Glory died,
My richest gain I count but loss,
And pour contempt on all my pride.

Were the whole realm of nature mine,
That were a present far too small:
Love so amazing, so divine,
Demands my soul, my life, my all.
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