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tends to like the work from
Ochimicho, an area where the
art is weird. It's art that is
unlike anything made any-
where else. The stuff is all sur-
realistic and sometimes hor-
rific . . . they are not my
favorites at all?' Some of the
pieces Mrs. Margolin refers to
include a devil dancing with a
woman in a tavern, an im-
prisoned Franciscan or a San-
ta Claus riding a bull which
turns into a motorcycle with a
skeleton.
"I like stuff from this region
because it is pungent, vivid,"
Mr. Margolin said. "You'll
know Ochimicho because
their stuff is slightly off-kilter
and that's terrific."
Mrs. Margolin favors the
work of the Oaxaca region
which features black clay pot-
tery, painted wooden animals
and figurines. The artifacts in
this region, she said, are in-
fluenced by ancient pre-
Columbian artistic styles and
native indigenous art.
The couple have heard a
wide variety of opinions about
their collection. While they
realize that it does not appeal
to everyone, they are only of-
fended by those who trivialize
the work or view it as "whim-
sical." "I really hate that," Mr.
Margolin said. "Most of it has
a deeply-felt meaning on a
cultural and community level
that reaches back sometimes.
hundreds and thousands of
years. It's very deep-rooted.
It's not whimsical."
"But that doesn't mean that
some of the pieces can't be just
plain funny," Mrs. Margolin
adds. "Some are meant to be.
But many have very tradi-
tional Spanish or Indian in-
fluences."
Ms. Jones said the label
"folk art" tends to unfairly
categorize the genre as some-
how less aesthetically
valuable than other forms of
art. "Many people like to dif-
ferentiate between folk and
fine art. What we consider
fine art needs to be expanded
to include the traditional art.
If you go into a museum and
look at Etruscan or many
Egyptian artifacts, they were
not created as fine art. They
were created out of an in-
digenous tradition. And yet to-
day we consider them worthy
of being placed in a fine arts
context. But we don't think
that way of contemporary folk
art."
"Folk art or indigenous art,"
Mrs. Margolin added, "has for
many years been maligned by
the fine art divisions because
it is not in a sense sophisti-
cated based on criteria in
which most westerners look at
art. To them, it's not perfect or
very realistic. It doesn't, in a
sense, look like art. It looks