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Originally Posted by ScaredWebWarrior
And he's totally right. Unless, of course, you can point me to many more works of art depicting disabled people?
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I can't think of any names off the top of my head
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Show me just ONE other piece of art (shocking or otherwise) that depicts a disabled person.
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Just because a
subject isn't in art very often, doesn't mean that when it is, its automatically praise-worthy. There are no pictures of the skin between my toes, but that doesn't mean if I produce one it is pushing the boundaries of art or (in my words) "being inventive or creative".
The guy is making up for that lack by exploiting a disabled woman, and that IS rather sick, IMO. Being disabled ISN'T a defining characteristic. Go up to any disabled person and ask them what is the most important thing about them. The fact they are disabled? Or their personality? Resilience? Spirit? Things that should be captured in art, not a disability, which is a characteristic of disabled people but not THE characteristic. Would they say they are a person or a disabled person? If you think its the latter, you haven't met any/enough disabled people.
Take away the disabled side of it, which was put in for shock/promotional value, and what do you have? A plain, white, marble sculpture of a nude woman. Like that hasn't been done before.
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Originally Posted by punky
If the author wants to know what a real decent work of art is, tell him to go look at Munch's "The Scream". Well, he could if some toerag hadn't nicked it. |
Highly overrated! (IMHO)
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Originally Posted by marky
they should get rid of nelson then, was he not blind in one eye and only had one arm
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LOL!
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Originally Posted by andy 1
in my opinion its disgusting to have any statue of a naked women in trafalgar square.
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That's just prudish.[/QUOTE]