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Controversial public art -- just nude or crude?
KOMONews.com ^ | 06/24/09 | Ray Lane

Posted on 06/25/2009 8:04:32 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway

BURIEN, Wash. -- Controversy is surrounding a new sculpture at the Burien/Interim Arts Space. The bronzed piece is of a squatting, nude woman, and it leaves little to the imagination, according to concerned parents.

"Just cover it up a little bit. Too much parts showing for the little kids," said parent Adam Sankey.

Anybody can walk through the privately-owned art space at Fifth Avenue SW and SW 150th Street. And for some, that's an issue, especially with a new library right next door.

"I don't want my kids around it," said parent Jole Sankey. "My 8 year old doesn't need to be exposed to it. I don't even want my 14-year-old son to be exposed to it."


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: communistgoals; gramsci; modesty; napl
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To: Pilated
It’s just plain UGLY. It’s a dark, sad, disturbing piece. I could not call this art

All art should be joyous, uplifting and beautiful? Some of my favorite pieces of art are the ones that make me think... and some of them are quite dark (in tone, if not palette.) Caspar Friedrich's The Sea of Ice (or Death of Hope as it is sometimes referred) is an immensely sad, dark and disturbing piece, so is it not art?
21 posted on 06/25/2009 8:26:11 AM PDT by Renderofveils (My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. - Nabokov)
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To: Renderofveils
Er, The Wreck of Hope. I figured I'd correct myself before someone else did. ;)
22 posted on 06/25/2009 8:28:33 AM PDT by Renderofveils (My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. - Nabokov)
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To: the_devils_advocate_666; Slings and Arrows

Will it eventually be installed in an alley located in the New Orleans French Quarter during Mardi Gras?

23 posted on 06/25/2009 8:28:47 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (There is no truth in the Pravda Media.)
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To: lojo

I am pretty sure that my three teen-aged sons see better racks at HS. Insert the old saw about ‘they didn’t build ‘em like that when I was in HS’. Maybe they did, maybe not. But the showcase is sure different today.


24 posted on 06/25/2009 8:30:42 AM PDT by ByteMercenary
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To: Just another Joe

Is it slated to become a water fountain?


25 posted on 06/25/2009 8:41:11 AM PDT by sniper63 (Silent and stealthy - one shot - one kill)
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To: sniper63
Is it slated to become a water fountain?

Well, being a male, I don't usually squat to do that but I see your point.

26 posted on 06/25/2009 8:42:16 AM PDT by Just another Joe (Warning: FReeping can be addictive and helpful to your mental health)
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To: reagan_fanatic

She looks like she’s contemplating why she squatted to poop when there was an empty stall just over there on the right.

she has that constipated look.....


27 posted on 06/25/2009 8:42:42 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: a fool in paradise

Here I squat,
Broken hearted.
Tried to ...

28 posted on 06/25/2009 8:44:19 AM PDT by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: lormand
It is not even a natural pose.

Except for the naked part, women mostly squat in public to tend to their young children. I've never myself even noticed that some of them look real good when they do it. But I heard that somewhere.

29 posted on 06/25/2009 8:47:13 AM PDT by Minn (Here is a realistic picture of the prophet: ----> ([: {()
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To: ArrogantBustard

Is that one sheet Sheryl Crow, I ask....?


30 posted on 06/25/2009 8:47:32 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: Minn

South East Asian women squat like that all the time....It looks un-natural for her.


31 posted on 06/25/2009 8:49:09 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: Renderofveils

I could not agree with you more. ‘Dark’ art, even that which attempts to express the hopelessness of the human condition, can be profound, providing a contrast that illuminates the genuine hope that exists. Even when it is not the intent of the artist.

Every picture has its shadows, and it has some source of light. (Joni Mitchell)


32 posted on 06/25/2009 8:53:57 AM PDT by newheart (Obama. We kind of underestimated the creepiness.)
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To: lormand

“It is not even a natural pose.”

It’s called the “third world squat.”

In the first world where we have chairs and resulting stiff hamstrings, it’s not so common, unless you are in the Army or install floor tile for a living.

In the third world, where you don’t have chairs, and the only thing you dare let touch the ground is the bottom of your feet, this is the natural position. It’s hard for westerners to do it, but eventually you master sitting in this position (heels down) and can do so for hours at a time.

I learned it in the military, and used it in a survival school setting.


33 posted on 06/25/2009 8:55:21 AM PDT by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem.)
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To: Jewbacca
I'm taking Tang Soo Do, and am in the process of stretching most everything.

I will have to work on stretching for this "squat" Any special tips on doing so?

34 posted on 06/25/2009 9:04:24 AM PDT by lormand (Michael Wiener - faux Conservative, steaming POS)
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

“My 8 year old doesn’t need to be exposed to it. I don’t even want my 14-year-old son to be exposed to it.”

Thats it.. shield them from everything so they go nutso when faced with the real world. Very few Europeans would give a second thought about their kids being exposed to it. They would probably be climbing all over the thing. Matter of fact non-repressive attitude about sexuality is probably the reason the teenage pregnancy rate in other countries is zip compared to the U.S. Besides that I see nothing disturbing about the sculpture except for the fact its butt ugly. Certainly nothing erotic about it.


35 posted on 06/25/2009 9:08:43 AM PDT by flash2368 (Scary Times)
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To: AngelesCrestHighway
I'm honestly tired of hearing people flip out over a human breast. We gave the fcc MASSIVE amounts of power because of one tit during a football game. That breast injured no one. The overreaction to it injured a lot of people.

We all have breasts. Almost all little kids have had intimate contact with a breast. Almost all men want intimate contact with a breast. It's a human body part.
36 posted on 06/25/2009 9:14:24 AM PDT by mysterio
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To: lormand

I learned with an Israeli Druze screaming at me, pretending to be a Hamas terrorists, and periodically hitting me with an AK-47, as I tried to keep from falling in donkey sh!t.

Worked pretty well.

(Or I suppose you could just do a front squat in a power rack if you are pussy. The weight will stretch your ham strings.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcZ-fS-X7k0


37 posted on 06/25/2009 9:16:39 AM PDT by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem.)
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

I don’t see any sheets.

And she’s using her right hand.

Yuck.


38 posted on 06/25/2009 9:17:09 AM PDT by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: AngelesCrestHighway
Well... It's better than that Britney‑Spears‑giving‑birth‑on‑a‑bear‑skin‑rug sculpture from a few years back.
39 posted on 06/25/2009 9:18:08 AM PDT by Redcloak ("Oh, bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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To: Pilated
I agree. Ugly.

Art is still lost


40 posted on 06/25/2009 9:33:10 AM PDT by Domandred (Hope is the first step on the road to disappointment.)
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