SanderCohenArt

* See also Sander Cohen
* See also Artists_in_Rapture
* See also Mediocrity_Leaves_The_World
 "Plasterpieces" !! Sander Cohen 'may or may not' have SCREAMED : "Take THAT and shove it Andy Warhol !!!!" 
Note that the game does NOT particularly explain that Sander Cohen's murderous proclivities (nor Steinman's for that matter) take place 'AFTER much of Rapture is in Chaos and no longer much subject to Law, or Sane Peer Pressure, or Ryan's emergency control. 
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 "North Atlantic" - A rather uninspired takeoff on "South Pacific" ( a musical which premiered in 1949 on Broadway, and was a long running hit. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052225/ )
Some talented Player might 'take a crack' at recreating this ...
That version of "Eastside Story" - gangs with bunny ears, was never completed.
Note - A 'Take off' on  'South Pacific'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052225/... ( on Broadway 1949 - Cohen probably heard about it ).
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In Burial At Sea we have Sander Cohen's involvement in the story with Elizabeth (( Who now 'works for him' instead of being relegated to working as a Prostitute - and interesting when you think of the Fate of those Other associates of Cohen ))
(( But notice on the 'cover art', Cohen ( is that Cohen ? ) has the microphone ... When Lizzie was supposed to conveniently be a Singer , and the record is named "Cohens New Songbird" ???? Yes, OK, a casual reference to Songbird ... actually rather sloppily done. ))
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Sander Cohen's 'Plaster Period' Artworks :
Sander Cohen Art Gallery sampling
Strangely enough it IS better than most 'modern' art these days. ( Which depending on who you talk to 'might not be saying much' ).
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Concept image converted to a painting seen in Cohen's Collection ( in Fort Frolic )
Similar method could be employed to create 'art' for the MMORPG ( Play - Do you know where this is ... ? ).
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( Actually I was bored and fired at that neon sign and the arm fell off and dangled. )
Hmm - An interesting 'shooting skill' puzzle activity opportunity for the MMORPG ...
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Is It Sander Cohen - Or Is It Memorex ?? :
Various Splicers, being mental, get Fixations, and Sander Cohen WAS one of the more memorable Rapture personalities ( Players seemed to think so ).   So ( for the MMORPG) it probably would be a popular thing to somehow get him back in one form or another ( for a touch of 'the Old Days' ).   Perhaps a 'play' on the 'Phantom of the Opera' story, with various sightings and strange happenings/clues ( a sudden spate of Plaster Hijackings ... ).  Or a whole small Faction who worship his Memory ( and then are shocked when he walks amongst them, and again (shock!) when it turns out to be an impostor ... and then again perhaps for real !?! )
There is always the old surviving media TV/Radio/Recordings/Newspaper/Magazine/Candybars, and New Rapture is starved for stuff to put on their Media ( and in the Nostalgia shops ) ...
"Happy Chappy" actually (with the MMORPG choreography tools) be put on by talented Player Creators ( including the Splicer's version of it, with all the misremembered lines and antics ).  Real Cosplayers in video ....
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Auto-Strangulation as an Art Form :
( Not really 'Auto' when Sander Cohen does it to someone else ... )
Actually, wasn't that sort of what we saw in "Cohens" in BaSx in that 'Salon' environment ??
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Sander Cohen Shoulda Had His "Moth" Object d' Attention : 
HE had it (perhaps) to mock that Blue Butterfly thing the 'Rapture Family' had.
"Motheman" - Have at least one such Splicer wandering around in Fort Frolic ( which you had to search out for good loot or somesuch, AND it would evade/run away from you ).
Sander Cohen seems to have learned the amusing delights of 'Lobotomy' also ...
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Plasterpiece : Atomic Family
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Plasterpiece : Dedicated Sander Cohen Fan Inspired.
Even the poor chairs got the 'Sanders' treatment ...
At least Sander didn't call himself 'The Colonel' and coat them with "7 Herbs and Spices".
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Plasterpiece : Technical Genius Is Required
Plaster isn't really that strong. SO what I'd like to know is : Did Cohen or some lackey (under direction) ram rebar, old clothes hangers and other metal rods through the corpses to get them to maintain position ( While plaster is applied and sets and later when on display ) ?
Also blood 'leaks' and plaster absorbs it REALLY nicely and stains quite distinctly. So, Cohen turned draining blood into 'Performance Art' too ???? As to 'drinking their blood', Cohen perhaps did not think any of his 'subjects' had anything 'artistic' worth absorbing from them.
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Cohen designed a motorcycle, but unfortunately there were no proper roads in Rapture to ride it ( thwarting his plans to fight crime as "Bunnyman" riding his "Bunnycycle", strangely dressed like Bat Girl from the old TV series ). Perhaps he then made it into the 'Fanciest Commode of All Time' ... 
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Cohen's Private Limo 'Bathysphere' as he envisioned it ( and then he saw the price to custom build it and settled for a 'stretched' Austin Luxury Sub ).
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No doubt that Sander Cohen had a god-complex... How exactly he got his minions in Fort Frolic to do his bidding - They were more afraid of how he would punish them by NOT killing them ... ( This a possible model for a Self-Portrait Plasterpiece )
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"A Funny Thing Happened To Me On The Way To Fort Frolic" - A Play by Sander Cohen ( later turned into a TV Sitcom ).
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Sander Cohen often excelled peoples' expectations ... ( He was an inventor .... Not a good one though. )
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Possibly a solution to his various 'Critics' which he rants about ....
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Cohen had many ideas submitted to him for his TV Variety Show. This one of a Barbershop Quartet didn't quite make it.
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You might think that Sander Cohen just 'got off' embarrassing people and making them feel like idiots.
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Proper ADAM accessorization. Stylishly self-designed for use with his ADAM cocktails. Hmm, maybe all the Absinthe he drank did more to shake his sanity ??
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Sander Cohen guest-hosting Rapture Tonight on the Ryan TV Channel, sub'ing for the regular host. It may NOT have been "The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson", but it was the 'big time' compared to the plethora of community-access-quality TV channels. Unfortunately with Rapture's small venue, you'd any night be likely to see the equivalent of "Biggles the Tap Dancing Cat" on the show.
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One of Sander Cohen's "installations" ( what 'artists' call something like this these days ). Some kind of symbolic thing, or Cohen just enjoyed killing people. ( Named a "Concretepiece" by a fawning and still alive 'critic' ).
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Like Culpepper ( who Cohen hadn't gotten to "Art-ifying" yet - plaster sticks better after the corpse is soaked in water ... ) there was more going on in this situation than meets the eye ( It seems implied that Ryan murdered Jasmine Jolene for her betrayal and conspiring with Fontaine, when it may really not have happen that way ).
Hint : What's with the chunk of pipe, pool of blood way over there, awful shoes and cheap hat left on the floor, and those bloody footprints leading out the door ??? ( Another hint is the pole dancing Sander Cohens behind the door making the shadow effects before you enter the room, which you can see if you use the cheats ... )
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Evidence that Cohen actually murdered Jasmine Jolene ?? Guess you will have to Play the MMORPG to find out ...
Symbolic of the "Dual Nature of 'Art' - Creation and DESTRUCTION !!!!" or some other BS like that.
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Sander Cohen's psychosis is an infinite cornucopia for silly ideas.
Cohen's "Harvey" wasn't nice AT ALL (not like Sander).
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After this scene he gave up trying to channel Bugs Bunny to Find his Answers.
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Even tons of plaster couldn't wall out the nightmares that Sander Cohen had every night. Making others share his nightmares was no relief.
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A frequent nightmare Sander Cohen had ... ( critics all showing up at the same time )
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The Eternal Question ( and sounds like the title for one of Cohen's own plays too ... Possibly about 'Critics' being eaten by rabbits or something, in an allegorical fantasy or somesuch ... )
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Cohen might've said - "Well Mongo, just chop that top part off and put it up on that stand, and I'll get around to the 'Art' later". ( Cohen most definitely used embedded wires/rebar to hold his corpses in position while he 'CREATED ART' ).
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Carving faces became too much work. Cohen hit on the idea of encasing his art subjects directly into the plaster and thus left much more time to be creative.
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This 'Installation' ( That's what these 'artists' call something like this these days ) even has several of Sanders Iconic "Plasterpieces". With the likely stench of rotting corpses, it has been said that an artist must suffer.
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In his rise to fame, Sander Cohen had many failures. But he moved on and achieved "Art"
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Ear Envy. The Green eyed Rabbit ...
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Yet more overblown gianourmous stuff the BaSx game makers came up with ( no new ideas, just (literally) expanding stuff ridiculously from the previous games ). Who could EVER have called Rapture 'claustrophobic' with aircraft hangar sized interior places ( very like the humongus ones in Infinite BS ) being everywhere ??? Even with Cohen's enormous ego, practicalities would still override the game designers improbable vastly over-sized distortions.
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What caused Sander Cohen's obsession with Rabbits. Perhaps we have to look far back into his childhood to find the source ...
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War of the Worlds 'Panic' Broadcast Recreation, 1956 : 
Why not ?  A Sander Cohen 'Stunt' ?    A Ryan Impersonator used to lend it authenticity.  A 'take off' on the Orson Welles 'War Of The Worlds' Radio Broadcast ... 
* Alien Cats taking over/destroying the Surface World - Invading Rapture ?
* Nuclear War starting ??
* A Plague Wiping Out Humanity ? 
* A Soviet Communist Invasion of Rapture ???
* Rock-N-Roll makes Human Heads Explode!!!
All is possible in this new 'Theater of the Mind'.
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== A Masterpiece ??? ==
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Spattered with Blue Paint, but NONE on his Painting ... 
LOOK CAREFULLY (I Rotated the Picture to see its hidden Messages)...
 
Little face near top looking right, or whole thing face looking left (or both)
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Of course, selling this stuff to people is the REAL 'art'. 
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The 'Rabbit Kicking' Chorus Line was Quite something to see ...
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Sander was a multi-talented artist ... ( a real Renaissance Man )
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Sander Cohen's murderous antics were a bit premature in BaSx, but it didn't mean that he wasn't already making plans for some future 'artworks'. The whole 'Seeing the future thing' for Elizabeth seems to have failed alot, when it came to the fatal stupidity of working for/with Looney mass murderers See Atlas/Fontaine.
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Sander Cohen - Self Portrait
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Perhaps representing some traumatic event in his Life - Sander Cohen's RED Period
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Sander Cohen's "Plaster-pieces" :
Another  ***Crazy Splicer Achievement*** - Collect all 12 !!!!  ( icon achievements - a player fave ... )
Hmm "Crazy Splicer Achievements".   Sounds like a contest for the Player Asset Creator Community ...
"Make it so, Number One" !  (Yeah, we can have some Splicer Boss say that line too....)
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In Rapture (BaSx), I guess the "Will The Circle Be Unbroken" (Record) Wouldn't Go Over Well (Officially) : 
Though who knows, with all his other nefarious activities, maybe Cohen bootlegged religious media. On the other hand in BS2 had Ryan not SAID "Ryan vs Lamb: Religious Rights" - "Transcript :
Ryan: "Religious rights, Doctor ? You are free to kneel before whatever tribal fetish you favor in the comfort of your own home. But in Rapture, liberty is our only law -- A man's only duty is to himself. To imply otherwise, therefore, is criminal." that he didn't prohibit personal religion ( I think all those Bibles and Crucifix 'Contraband's' REAL issue (for Ryan) was more that it they were Smuggled goods - versus the simpleton's idea intended by the writers ). Under Objectivism, religion is NOT prohibited like it is by the tyrannical communists ( whom Ryan had suffered DIRECT exposure to as a child ), but an Objectivist Society is organized such that one person's religion CANNOT impinge upon another's Freedoms.
Consider : Ryan possibly may have commissioned a "Shall The Chain Be Unbroken" record to be available in Rapture's "Market of Ideas".
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Hosiery was one of the 'consumables' in Rapture. But Sander Cohen's approach to marketing left much to be desired.
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Innovation - Sander Cohen art that changes its look with the temperature.
Toxic elements required ( a similar problem with his "Radium Rabbit" ) made it prohibitive to even exhibit it.
Gimmicks instead of Art. It is what so much so-called 'art' today really is.
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 "Eyes Wired Shut" 
 "Eyes Wide Shut? (last movie) by Stanley Kubrick - The strange parties of Sander Cohen as reported by Stanley Poole
* Rabbits Wearing Pope hats !!!
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Projects :
Sander Cohen's "Dance of the Spiders" ( Choreographed scene in one of his Plays )
"Cat Man DO !! " a funny line from a Sander Cohen Play ( You hear Splicers using it years later )
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 'Art' in Rapture - Can Be SO Much More Fun ..... : 
Looks like a 'still life'.   Too bad we (Players) didn't get 'titles' along with all the 'art' pictures we see in all the Rapture games.  Those can be even more amusing than the 'Art'.   This picture ... is that a corkscrew in front of fruit ???   No real imagination needed to interpret those concepts -- Yes, Sander Cohen's greatest  ambition was actually to open a small Bistro in Paris ...  "Le Grand Lapin".
For MMORPG we CAN have titles (including for all those old pictures including 'restored' ones)  and new additional 'artworks' (it is so civilized to have one of these 'masterpieces' in your Residence or NPC Team base,  you might even obtain one of Cohen's "Plaster-pieces .... preferably one without having a leaking cadaver inside).
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Sander Cohen's TV Show :
Sander probably would have many 'Guest Hosts' as he tired of the constant 'EVERY FRICKEN NIGHT' nature of such 'Art'. ( HIS Introducing "Sander Cohen's Rapture Theater" could all be pre-taped ).
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Sander Cohen's "Rapture Tonight" TV Show Joke : 
About his attempting the first 'Trans Atlantic Solo Flight' (a year before Charles Lindbergh's flight) ... But on getting within 3 miles of France and running out of gas, then having to 'go back'. He later sued the Marx Brothers Used in "A Night at The Opera" for stealing his joke. 
Unfortunately You Need 'An Army of Joke Writers' to have new material for every night, so THIS joke would have got reused far too many times (and Sander Cohen probably is NOT as good as Jack Benny at using 'running jokes').
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Do you see the faces in those rocks ? ( This is seen outside the windows at Persephone ). But then, with the psychotropic drugs given you (the inmate) to 'keep you calm' there in that psychiatric containment facility, you probably see pink bunny rabbits crawling up the walls too.
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Cohen Follies :
All Star Chorus ( the style is more throwback to 1920s 1930s, Broadway kinda thing )
The Actual 'Ziegfeld Follies' had ALOT of risqué stuff in it that makes much of Cohen's weirdness ordinary.
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 "Frankenstein", the Ballet (by Sander Cohen ??) :
Heh, someone in the real world had the same idea, but I think that Sander Cohen could come up with something far more creepy and twisted. Maybe his 'creation' has his 'Artist' theme with 'Critics' with animosity to those incapable of admiring such great creativity ...
Consider the lack of Ballet talent in Rapture - Any game animations will lack the grace to do proper Ballet, but not so much (or badly) for what it would be in Rapture.
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Dance Number From Hell :
Sander Cohen had been impressed by Busby Berkeley films during the 1930s, but Cohen could never get enough dancers to do his own grandiose choreographed geometric dance presentations.
So Cohen invented the 'Dance Kaleidoscope' - a rig which would decrease the number of dancers required by a factor of 6.
Unfortunately for his later Splicer minions, Sander often made use of this Kaleidoscope device for punishing 'Critics' ( anyone who disobeyed him ) using extremely bright flashing lights and filters made from his favorite art images. Epileptic fits and excrement-spewing insanity were the frequent outcome ( He sought and achieved this, as always, 'artistically' ). You might consider all those plaster covered creeps wandering about Fort Frolic to be the 'lucky ones'.
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Sander Cohen - "When I am dust, this is what they will point to ..."
So even if Sander Cohen had a Viking Funeral and also drowned all his minions in Fort Frolic, his 'Quadtych' should be kept all nice and safe somewhere, IF he truly sees it as his Greatest Work.
We CAN manage that for the MMORPG.
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Sander Cohen Reigning King of Splicer 'Performance Art" :
Infinite BS is a Sick Joke which Cohen Writes as a Play (or worse a Musical) to afflict his Play Company With ( as a mechanism to have them all killed for being the cause of his decline ).  An unfortunate "Elizabeth" is a mere assistant that Sander Cohen ( with his usual Flair ) sadistically makes kill each one of the cast in order to herself stay alive.  Garrotes, Hammers, and Plaster,  Oh My !!   His 'Quadtych' pales in comparison.
Cameo by Security Chief Sullivan who has been brainwashed by Cohen into thinking Culpepper in the bathtub is "Atlas in Drag" whom Ryan did truly order 'the Bump' (kill) to be put on.  Knitting a Red and Black Blanket is some Deep Metaphor, never explained .. except vague emphasis on how "Deep" it must be.
You want Plot Twists ? -- You get Twisted Plots !!
There's Weird, There's Strange, There's Damn Freaking Bizarro-land Weird ...   Sander Cohen - 'realized'.
See it all on the MMORPG .... (and more).
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As a Tribute to the Canon Breakage in the Burial At Sea DLC :
We see one of Sander Cohen's "Plasterpieces", which is obviously Elizabeth, who like Cohen's other 'disciples' was disposable, and in HIS Mind being Best employed as PART of his 'art'. Perhaps a Songbird 'fished out of the drink' might be seen in a scrap pile, or being cooked by Splicers for dinner. 
DON'T CRITICIZE - Or YOU will 'Wind Up' one of Cohen's 'Platerpieces'.
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May have been one of Sander Cohen's best works - (alternate Title "Death of The Critic")
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Was it Genetics or Environment that made Sander Cohen what he was ??
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Sander Cohen thought himself a Playwright. His productions might be atrocious, but there was little else in Rapture to compete - It being such a limited Stage Theater market. His 'latching on to' that phrase of Ryan's may indicate how much a sycophant he was ( We might assume that his career in the Surface World was largely due to Ryan's patronage ).
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Burial at Sea had the Idea of Making Sander Cohen Be Like Andy Warhol ...
Warhol (and Dali also) did alot of work with the film medium.
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A Piece of Art Sander Cohen did on the Surface just before he came to Rapture
Later (MMORPG), a Journal would be found in Rapture detailing Sander's personal thoughts about this 'Arc of Art' as he called it.
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Really weird thing was : Sander Cohen did this piece up on the Surface in 1940.
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