I thought it had something to do with the quality of the background music.
The censored pic make it look like sheās lying on her back.
Yes it is much more āReclining Nude After Her Neck Was Brokenā with the blur.
ādetittilatedā , āpenissippiā - so much greatness here.
We had a great conversation about this in grad school, 1970ās slideshow of various images. It was great, I brought popcorn. But no matter how wrong he was, nobody has ever defined it better than Justice Potter Stewart.
that and his ānow you see them, now you donātā hand thing, heh
The blurring would have been more understandable if the picture in question had been Mel Ramosās You Get More Salami With Modigliani.
Slightly more NSFW, although the link is to the Carnegie Museum of Art. I was doing research!
Actually there is a very close relationship with art and porn. Of course not today porn, but the old school ā¦
Iām guessing youāve seen cafe flesh tooā¦ very blurred line between the two there!
Recently I saw an episode of āBotchedā where they did breast reconstruction surgery on a woman whoād had a double mastectomy. Right after the surgery, no blurring. Then they gave her nipple tattoos. They showed them once, and then blurred out the tattoos for the rest of the episode. Such an odd culture we live in.
I remember when they played schinders list on network broadcast tv, sex scenes, boobies and allā¦
On the last season of Hannibal, a show that regularly had nudity and extreme gore, NBC decided to blur the buttocks on Botticelliās āPrimavera.ā
Such a strange Puritan country I live in.
The pronunciation of āModiglianiā was a lot more shocking than the blurring (I know the Italian āglā sound is hard, but at least they could have gotten the stress pattern right - it sounds like theyāre saying āModigli aniā, which is kinda fitting as ani means exactly what you think it does)
Is the US public or the public censors or whatever only capable of thinking in extremes?
Just porn and notporn? Nudity or eroticism isnāt pornography.
Weāve always been a pretty Puritanical country (makes sense, I guess, we were founded by Puritans), but in terms of recent history, I think coming off of a decade of hyper-neo-conservative rule has caused quite a bit of a backslide in maturity when it comes to this stuff.
When I was in (public) high school 15+ years ago, my French IV teacher showed us Manetās Olympia, a frontal nude painting of a prostitute, as part of an āArt History of Franceā unit. The class didnāt flip out, there was no outcry from admins or parents. We had a brief discussion (in French) of the scandal caused by the painting in its time, how it compared to the other Manets we had been looking at, and moved on to the next piece. Now, as a public school art teacher, I would get fired for showing that painting uncensored to my class - itās taken for granted that weāll omit or censor nudity in our curriculum. And the students I get donāt have the maturity to handle that kind of imagery, giggling and tittering during field trips to the art museum, where encountering the odd nude is inevitable, or genuinely questioning why I have a particular young adult graphic novel on our class bookshelf, because it includes a scene where the protagonist is in a sex-ed class, and there are a couple of line drawings of breasts.
Meanwhile, this same school found it cute and hilarious to have an event at a pep rally where female teachers kissed blindfolded male student football players on the cheek without their knowledge or consent, as a kind of āprankā (the male students had been told they were going to be kissed by cheerleaders, which is also fucked up, but in a different wayā¦).
Basically, our cultural understanding of bodies, art, and sexuality is about at the level of a not-especially-intelligent 9-year-old. Weāre doomed.
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No, youāve allowed yourselves to be taken over by the Philistines (read Jurgen, by James Branch Cabell for the reference; the chapter on Philistia is brilliant, the whole book worth reading.)
The pity is that in the battle between the Protestantiban and the Internet with its free-to-view pornography, the loser is art, and the kids who will never visit, say, the Uffizi, and see Botticelliās Venus in its full, massive reality and suddenly get what art is all about, because, as you say, theyāve been conditioned to think of nudity only in the context of porn.
A few years back I was in a writing group. There was a 13 year old girl in the group which sometimes created some concern by the rest of us who were writing some more adult content and not comfortable putting it in her hands. Anyway, we had a speaker to the group who was writing a novel set in the turn of the 19th century. He was showing us how stereographs were the bleeding edge tech of the day and were, of course, used for the boobies. So he shows us some of the actual photographs but none of us felt they were titillating in the least since the women were just staring at the camera with their blouses down; the camera angles were not like what we associate with dirty pics. We even felt fine with the 13 year old girl seeing them.
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