Work of art my A$$!
For somebody who spent the last few weeks moping and crying over a furry best friend who passed away, I find it UNBELIEVABLY CRUEL that some people actually thought it’s a work of art to put a live, starving dog on display.
And I thought I’ve seen the worst of animal cruelty seeing a dog run over by a car on the street. This is unbelievable. Does he derive pleasure seeing the dog tortured like that? It’s cruel, absolutely cruel.
Help sign the petition boycotting this cruel artist.
Art is supposed to be beautiful. And I don’t see anything beautiful in such cruelty AT ALL.
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November 13th, 2007 at 7:03 am
ugh this artist can be punished for violating the law on animal welfare.
http://www.internationalwildlifelaw.org/phil_animal_act.html
Can’t we report him for violating Sectiion 6 of Republic Act No. 8485, THE ANIMAL WELFARE ACT OF 1998?
“SECTION 6: It shall be unlawful for any person to torture any animal, to neglect to provide adequate care, sustenance or shelter, or maltreat any animal or to subject any dog or horse to dogfights or horsefights, kill or cause or procure to be tortured or deprived of adequate care, sustenance or shelter, or maltreat or use the same in research or experiments not expressly authorized by the Committee on Animal Welfare.”
November 13th, 2007 at 2:29 pm
Snopes is keeping track of things: http://www.snopes.com/critters/crusader/vargas.asp
Personally, I do hope this isn’t true, because I always wish cruelty isn’t true.
November 13th, 2007 at 3:11 pm
That Snopes writer probably has eye problems. Even if those scabs were just “makeup,” just one look at how thin the dog is, you’ll know that the dog is being mistreated. Dogs don’t get that thin unless they’re starved.
I pity that Snopes writer’s dog (if he or she even has one), when its owner doesn’t even know if a dog that thin isn’t being mistreated.
“Well-fed?” That gallery director’s got to be kidding. Or he just really needs his eyes checked. The poor dog makes my healthy dogs look overly obese!
November 17th, 2008 at 11:45 pm
Animal cruelty is BULL**** it is unfair for animals im only 12 and im going to fight for animal cruelty to be stoped once and for all!!!!!!!! its cramp that some people believe that can get away with this S***!!!!
January 29th, 2009 at 5:37 am
i think it is cruel to put animals in danger, its horrible to hurt them. stuff art if it involves animal cruelty. i love animals and think that the way they treat them nower days is out of order.
June 6th, 2009 at 8:26 am
Well, so many people against the artist and still, we do the very same thing, everyday passing by abandoned animals, poor people and beggars. Awake up! The dog died because no one of the exhibition visitors did give food to the animal. We are the hypocrites here. I don´t appreciate the aesthetic of this kind of work but I can´t see that the big picture it is about our capacity to relate. Anyone with a fair understanding of contemporary art could and should intervene in that piece. But no one did…
Instead of criticizing the artist, you should invite him to do a similar intervention in your home town. Them, perhaps, people would look to life in a different way and start appreciating the true value of things.
Art isn’t about beautiful pictures on the wall. It´s never been.
Look behind the pictures.
June 7th, 2009 at 7:13 am
Invite the artist in my hometown? Do you even know where I live?
Here in Manila, there are a lot of squatters who don’t have enough to feed their families. And YET, they still value lives of animals and keep pets even when they themselves don’t have enough. They don’t starve animals. I’m sure they DO know the value of things, don’t you?
If somebody stuck you in an exhibit and starved you for the sake of art, would you like that?
This is NOT intervention, it’s CRUELTY.