Puffed out, it looks like it s belching or falling asleep. Only in the 70s could it have been performance art and then only by someone who was absolutely unconcerned about looking cool. It s hilarious. Everyone I know has a picture of these goddamn dogs. Wegman needn t worry.
Most critics bend themselves into cute li l mobius strips trying to justify the doggies as art.
They talk around and around and never really answer their own questions except to point out that the Romantics didn t consider animal portraits art, but since the doggies seem to exhibit a certain Weltschmerz, they must be okay. You know how critics are. So if it s okay to like the banal Conceptual stuff, you can certainly enjoy the Weimaraners. They re a lot better realized technically, emotionally and from a narrative standpoint. Visa Olympic synchronized-swimming ads and now the dog portraits have ads of their own.