The Artistic Critic 001

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Title The Artistic Critic 001
Creator Sam Wilson
Building Gittins Gallery
Spatial Coverage Department of Art and Art History, University of Utah
Location City/State Salt Lake City, UT
Description A bust of Sam Wilson's reoccurring Groucho character gesturing, speaking, to a large, dense composition of portraits facing him. A thought bubble above his head includes a cracked, fallen stone head (Michelangelo's "David"?). Other figures include a rainbow trout, a chicken, a bishop, and a man with a banana on his head. At the top is the following text; "(The artist critic, ultimate) arbiter elegantiarum-damnant quod non intelligunt - componere lites (become a curatorial) concordia discors... Indere sum sacris, (Always pedantic) se none vero, e ben trovato (for they Know populus Vult decipi... (and finally a pallida mors. (they should be) sile et philosophus esto. / (They say) non sum qualis eram Clout this is not our) inter canem et lupum. Sthough banishird to the ultima thule (we-vide er crade (that finally) vila brevis, ars longa."
Subject University of Utah; Department of Art and Art History; Gittins Gallery; Sam Wilson & Tony Smith Exhibition; Sam Wilson
Medium Unknown; Presumed mixed media
File Name SW_ArtisticCritic_001
ARK ark:/87278/s695p3t5
Setname uu_aah_artpr
ID 2551377
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s695p3t5
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