Third Quarter CC#2: 'Women Don't Paint Very Well.'

Spiegel Online interviews Georg Baselitz, an egotistical male artist, and he states the quote of the moment, "Women don't paint very well." Spiegel writes an article revolving around this, noticing the worst pieces of this mysogenstic man.This may be the reason and purpose for this article.

Baselitz blantly states, "Women don’t paint very well. It’s a fact." Just the sexism is so strong in this and it makes me want to puke. I do not understand how the gender has anything to do with the artistic abitlity. Maybe one day, this man will realize his wrong doings and apoligize. Yeah, that is a thought.

Spiegel, an online interviewer, wonders, "Maybe this whole interview is a desperate ploy to revive the tail end of an unfulfilling art career? Nevertheless, it puts a pit in our stomachs when a museum-level artist can make such offensive statements and the whole trainwreck is simply referred to as "unfortunate commentary."." This is the part where Georg realizes his mistake. Maybe he just wanted to baffle the world and readers. We may never know. This man is, however, a very mean man that I would like to call mean words. Unfulfilling, a word that we are using to describe this man's career. Maybe that is why he is saying that women do not paint very well.

Spiegel types, "In an wildly insulting interview with the online German publication, the artist "smiles mischievously" while unloading shockingly curmudgeonly cranky sexist statements." Sexist is a word that even Spiegel uses to describe the infamous Georg. Saying something that he wanted you to know that he was thinking, I would say this is some "voice" being added by Spiegel. You can really tell that he is saying his mind, even if he crosses it out.

A connection to my friend, Sarah Rudd. She is the best painter I have ever seen. She is also a female. If Georg believes that "women simply don’t pass the test," he has obviously never seen Sarah work. When you watch her paint, it is like a magical trance in the way that she moves her hands with the brush. Every stroke makes it look closer and closer to being nearly perfect. You just can not say that this woman can not paint very well. Painting is her life, art in general is her life.

The type of writing used in this article is insane. I love that Spiegel wrote this article, it gave me room to vent, something I needed to do. All of the different offensive statements that this guy uses is just flabberghasting. Really, he thinks he can get by with these harst statements? I am ready to show him why they say, "If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all."

Third Quarter CC#1: Woman Bites Her Own Wrists

The author, Anonymous, describes the actions of the woman in the Izard County Jail in, Woman Bites Her Own Wrists. This irked me a bit, so here I am. Irking people is, I am guessing, the author's way of getting your attention. The article seems to be implying that the woman, a lady named Michelle, is actually possessed rather than mentally ill.

You may be thinking something along the lines of the movie, The Devil Inside right now, so let me clear something up. This woman was admitted into a "treatment facility" later on. According to our Anonymous author, "A Viola woman who bit her wrists while in jail restraints was rushed to a hospital for massive bleeding, and now faces felony charges stemming from her conduct." Does that not seem crazy to you? I think that sounds really crazy. When I first looked at the article, I thought, "Definitely about a possessed lady." I was proved wrong. The way that the article is phrased, it makes the woman appear to be possessed. Maybe the author believes that she is.

As stated by Tate Lawrence, a sheriff at Izard County Jail, " Michelle Alaine Batterton was being held in jail as the result of minor charges from Fulton County, but when she began screaming and hitting her head against the door of her cell officials placed her in a restraint chair in order to prevent her from doing bodily harm to herself." This is still pointing the the idea that the author might be trying to say that the woman, a crazy lady, is possessed.  Maybe she is. The things that she is doing to herself and others seems to make it out to be that way.

Author then types, "District Judge David E. Miller set her bond at $5,000 and granted her a conditional release for admittance to a treatment facility." What better way to end the article? The judge seems to believe that Michelle, the crazy woman, is only crazy. I still believe that the moot point of this was to imply the possession of Michelle.   Is that not just the best thing? 

I would like to connect this to The Devil Inside, based on the assumption that the author wanted us to believe Michelle is possessed. In this movie, the mother is possessed and she does all kinds of weird things. Including screaming and hitting her head on the wall of her cell until officials of the facility had to pull her away from it.  Do you want to connect her cuts for her? The cuts were on her wrist, as were the "cuts" or puncture wounds from Michelle's teeth. Maybe she wants someone to connect her cuts. All she could make them with was her teeth.   

                                                             
The idea of possession is scary to many of us and tends to be cast out of eyesight. The author is attatching the innuendo that casting something under the rug is not the way to go about things. Everything needs to be dealt with and then packed away in an organized file cabinet.