You are actually right! Here are some nymphs trying to drown one of them.
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No. Comparing this with the Nazi book burnings shows an embarrassing grade of historical illiteracy and tone deafness. Notwithstanding the above, I believe that this iconoclastic removal is misguided, zealous, and detrimental to the freedom of the arts.
There, I did it again, sitting neatly between all the stools.
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particularly The Guitar Lesson.
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I don’t know. I get it. Maybe they didn’t do the best job explaining their reasoning, but this was most certainly not “because bewbs.” They wanted to draw attention to the trend in art of this periodþgenre that treats women and sex as nothing more than a moral hazard, as a dark, mysterious, temtping man trap, rather than complex humans with agency. seems worth a chat.
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Aren’t they nymphs? Which is to say mythical creatures?
…which is to say, an explanatory allegory for unexplained or difficult to understand mundane realities…
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Suddenly I understand Skyler Samuels’ performance in The Gifted.
Or Apollo, he seemed to have a thing for nymphs…Daphne, Chione, Melia, Acantha, and more.
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I’m trying to remember at what age I learned Hylas’ death in mythology was more cruel than being crushed by Talos in Jason and The Argonauts.
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Well… We really only have Herc’s word for what happened, and he was pretty clumsy with his friends and lovers.
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Oh, yes. This is clearly pure stunt. Take down artwork for a day or two, film the removal, all with great fanfare, to “start a conversation.” Watch as heads explode and commenters rend their garments over censorship; comparisons to Nazi book burnings and Degenerate Art fly like bullets in a Keanu Reeves flick. Then enjoy the aftermath, as interest in the painting and the collection as a whole increases by a factor of ten.
Gotta admire it, actually.
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Two different museums.
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Sonia Boyce’s pretestuose stunt is based on “air” and it is embarrassing for the ART History itself.
#EpicFail
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The taking down of the painting is an artistic act. It only makes sense in the context of how the gallery was titled: “In pursuit of beauty”.
This is a stupid fucking title for a gallery in which this painting was included. And a good reason to take the painting down from the gallery. Just a dumb fucking title.
That said, I’m not particularly impressed by this performance. It’s a little broad and easy.
But seriously: “In pursuit of beauty”? Really? “Nymphs’ll fuck you up” would be much better.
Also, this painting is sexy af
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That’s one hell of a painting.
The culture wars are starting to look more and more like the cultural revolution.
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I may have been less than clear, as you seem to have missed my point.
Of course I’m not comparing this singular act of removing a painting directly to Naziism. That would be silly and unnecessarily hyperbolic. What I’m doing, and what a lot of people in the thread were doing was to point out the end destination of the road that this small act of petty political prudishness puts us on.
Also, I accept that a really strong push back against a small incident like this may have looked a little silly, but had there not been such a strong reaction, that painting would be gone, and we’d be one more salami slice down the first paragraph of Faranheit 451. Then next time, they’ll push a little bit further.
So I don’t mind if people think I’m overreacting now, because history has taught us that if we ignore petty regressiveness like this, if we ignore baby steps on this road , and only start to complain when we reach repressive totalitarian acts, well, that’s too late to do anything about it.
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