Mt Gambier’s Blue Blob: Modern Art Is a Cry for Help from a Culture that Has Lost Its Way
Mount Gambier has officially unveiled its newest tourist attraction – a $136,000 bright-blue lump of taxpayer-funded confusion.
It’s been affectionately – or not – dubbed the “Blue Blob.”
According to council spin, this oversized Smurf sneeze is a mythical marsupial megafauna – a nod to the region’s ancient history, apparently.
According to everyone else, it’s proof that arts funding should come with a breathalyser test!
A Sign of the Undivine Times
The artwork is meant to reflect the famed Blue Lake. It mostly reflects a lack of taste, a lack of direction, and a lack of budget restraint.
Still, Mayor Lynette Martin insists it’ll become a cultural landmark…
Which it probably will – right after people stop laughing and start asking for refunds!
Once upon a time, art sought to capture the divine – Michelangelo’s David, da Vinci’s Last Supper, beauty carved from marble and painted onto ceilings.
Now? We get a blue blob.
Modern art isn’t beautiful, it’s deliberately not beautiful.
That’s the point.
Beauty Without God Doesn’t Exist
Beauty implies standards, and standards imply judgment, and judgment implies that one thing might actually be better than another.
We now live in a culture that treats objective truth like it’s a hate crime.
We’ve abandoned the transcendent in favour of the transgressive. And replaced skill with shock.
As a result, we end up with irony far more often than awe.
Of course, this is exactly what you’d expect from a civilisation that can’t even define what a woman is.
If truth is relative and beauty is oppressive, then naturally art must be ugly and incomprehensible.
Mount Gambier’s Blue Blob is not so much art as a cry for help from a culture too proud to admit that it’s completely lost the plot.
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Republished with thanks to The James Macpherson Report.
Image: Screenshot of Facebook/City of Mount Gambier.
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What I think of the Blue Blob in Mt Gambier is unprintable.