tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3057826380522065501.post3808652807405732190..comments2023-12-28T23:27:33.142-05:00Comments on DLK COLLECTION: Miroslav Tichý @ICPDLKCOLLECTIONhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14875914464454488384noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3057826380522065501.post-56034228020629602742010-03-26T18:22:25.743-04:002010-03-26T18:22:25.743-04:00I was really looking forward to seeing this exhibi...I was really looking forward to seeing this exhibition - however, I feel that it is somewhat like the emperor's new clothes. He appears to have suffered from some undaignosed mental illness, schizophrenia or bi-polar, manic-depressive, obsessive... If any psychologist or psychiatrist had seen this, it would be apparent. Jung worked alot with such patients in Burkholzli Mental Hospital in Zurich. Jung thought some of these people, who were mentally ill, and obsessively drawing, were visionaries. But they only reveal the anguish of a mind trapped in illness and unable to cope in the real world. It is certain that Van Gogh suffered from an undiagnosed illnes, but no one questions the greatness of his art - in retrospect. Van Gogh could actually draw, for one thing.<br /><br />Tichy, to me, was a mentally ill peeping Tom. The drawn-on mats are typical of an obsessive/schizophrenic disorder. It seems that his mental health may have improved as he got older and he became more articulate, but his "work" is really not very good...in fact, it is pretty terrible...there was no "intentional" duchampian rejection of the art world. He was just sloppy, deranged and sexually starved, and the photographs are boring.<br /><br />ICP should really be embarassed that they were 'caught up' in this scam.<br /><br />Disfarmer was an actual photographer and although he was also mentally ill, he captured a segment of the rural population of the 1930s in Arkansas - and his distain for the farming community he grew up in is apparent in the photographs.<br /><br />Tichy took about 2 or 3 noteworthy photographs and considering everything, they were happy mistakes.<br /><br />We SO want to discover hidden geniouses. I wouldn't be surprised to find years from now the entire thing was a hoax. Which of course, could be a performance piece in itself.<br /><br />LorraineLorraine Anne Davishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04974503300033372220noreply@blogger.com