Posted on 12/28/2005 8:41:02 PM PST by Aussie Dasher
VIENNA, Austria - Her Majesty would not have been amused.
Neither would President Bush or his French counterpart, Jacques Chirac, over a Vienna-wide art project depicting them naked and engaged in a sexual act with British Queen Elizabeth II.
The work of “euroPART,” an independent artists’ group, the scenes being displayed on electronic billboards across the Austrian capital were also embarrassing for the government just days before the country assumes the European Union’s rotating presidency Sunday.
Austrian media reported that the offending images were yanked Wednesday — just a day after they started flashing at motorists — on personal orders of Chancellor Wolfgang Schuessel. A woman answering the telephone at the chancellor’s public information department who refused to identify herself said she could not confirm the report.
Leading opposition party figures suggested Schuessel was at least indirectly responsible, saying the group had received about $1.2 million in government subsidies.
Schuessel spokeswoman Heidi Glueck was quoted by the Austria Press Agency as saying the chancellor had been “unaware” of the subject matter being displayed.
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A picture is worth a thousand words, particularly in this case. Where is it?
There are some things not fit for human eyes. I reckon this just might be one of them.
UNNNGH!
Yawn. Is it just me, or has the avant-garde become hackneyed and tiresome?
Leading opposition party figures suggested Schuessel was at least indirectly responsible, saying the group had received about $1.2 million in government subsidies.
Of course, if I were an Austrian taxpayer, a $1.2-million subsidy for this trash would get my attention.
That's what at least one of them said, I think.
LOL!!
I don't recognize the faces at all. The pic is a flop. The artistry is that poor.
if your art sucks, bastardize it to make a political statement. Austria is just taking its cues from Hollyweird
Poor likenesses! Chirac looks like he has a face and one half!
thats "art" these days, lol.
sexy pic.
It's not just you. These "artists" are simply trying to think up something that will cause controversy. They are then interviewed and say they "wanted to start a dialogue, and I succeeded." Of course, the dialogue isn't about the subject but about the awfulness of modern "art". And the cycle repeats, and these artists wonder why no one cares about their art and have to be subsidized.
Liar!
*Chuckle*
(That is SO mean!)
I reckon there's a Nobel Prize in this person's future. Not to mention a job with George Soros.
First they renamed Schwarzenegger Stadium, and now this. I guess that makes Austrians highly-principled porn lovers!
There was a time when art was used tastefully to provoke, inspire, make you think.
Too bad today's generation of "artists" have forgotten that - they apparently think childish insults are witty and clever.
Sad, really.
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