Censored Art

Well done to the censors, it looks even better with the hand written sign covering Saddam up, like most things as soon as it is censored it becomes more interesting.

Indymedia UK are good at censorshop too - good little bourgois summit trotters they are...

You write without linking to the previous article that it was badly received.  http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/07/403944.html I admit to the cryptic comment which touched on contemporary tabloid journalistic treatments of Banksy, Mosley and last year's missing child in the comment I wrote under the name "gurgle etc..,".

Your last article of course allows us see allbeit at an oblique angle the work which you now show us covered with a poster which to my myopic sight seems to direct us to a website.

The figurative artwork is derived is it not from Francis Bacon (born Dublin 1909 died Madrid 1992) & as such must be either appraised in any critical way as post-modernist and in no small way reliant on Bacon's intentions. Whereas his work took delight in the "uglification" or "degradation" of friends, contemporary revered artists or works of the canon of western art which resulted from hypocritical patronage (I think of his famous Titian pope depiction) that which you presented to us as being for public consumption presents characters who have been subject to immediate degradation - Diana or Saddam.

Art is either as Oscar Wilde wrote "useless" and not worthy of the effort except as a time consuming hobby which keeps us off smack and crack or it is the sort wicked past-time verging on profession which in this contemporary age mus rely on reams of essays. To wit - I suggest you explain your pictures and art to us, rather than we explain to you why your art is now more worthy of commentary once it is supposedly censored.

let us know how you get on.

I noticed 'Message board' a while back - you can read the text regarding the recent work and see previous artwork at www.dual.org.uk. Also check my first article for a clearer image at

 http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/oxford/2008/07/402832.html

Obviously this isn't a serious attempt at censorship, otherwise it would have been taken down properly and there wouldn't be a sign saying 'have your say'!

More likely it's an attempt at attention-seeking.

George: This is the fourth time you have posted about these signs on indymedia, with very little actual news content at all; I wouldn't be surprised if you'd put the 'censorship' sign there yourself as an excuse to be able to post more 'news' about the pictures.