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In reply to the discussion: Bare Breasts On Statue Offend Some at Arboretum [View all]cthulu2016
(10,960 posts)56. I saw a "curator" take a chainsaw to the penis of a statue once.
The artist ( a friend) installed the piece, a wood carving of a male figure, in the park overnight, and it had... irronically... "wood."
Since the sculpture was too big for her to move the curator of the exhibition in the park took a chainsaw to the piece.
No harm should come to the arboretum sculpture, of course. It will end up in a museum or something.
But it's a bit much for a park in Kansas.
Half of the artwork I have ever done was probably a bit much for a park in Kansas too.
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Greek Olympic athletes in antiquity competed in the nude. This is probably an homage to that since
stevenleser
May 2012
#32
Guernica comes to mind. You are SUPPOSED to be disturbed by Guernica. That's the point.
stevenleser
May 2012
#33
I'm pretty sure that's the point. Taking her own pic at a photo spot sans head...
Egalitarian Thug
May 2012
#37
Someone once told me that, at the Vatican, one pope was offended by male genitalia on statues
applegrove
May 2012
#3
I do not question as being "appropriate." I would hope it would engage the viewer in a
CTyankee
May 2012
#14
I don't have too many expectations about art in public spaces, altho I do kind of like
CTyankee
May 2012
#44
Well, you know, everyone is going to have their own interpretation of public art!
CTyankee
May 2012
#66
I don't object to the nudity but I find it creepy and unattractive. It probably gives kids
Raine
May 2012
#18
yet the NFL is a family setting and that's three hours of men trying to cripple themselves
Suji to Seoul
May 2012
#20
When Rick was assigned to the Captain's landing party his shirt was red and he was made of meat.
hunter
May 2012
#28
The curator said that the sculpture is meant to convey the idea that the person
stevenleser
May 2012
#42
well, that was my thought when I realized she was holding a camera on herself.
CTyankee
May 2012
#50
I have hesitated, in some of my Challenge threads, to post images of art that is
CTyankee
May 2012
#67