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1,100-square-foot mural creating stir at UMass
http://www.masslive.com/chicopeeholyoke/republican/index.ssf?/base/news-6/1106988663304590.xml ^ | January 29, 2005 | HOLLY ANGELO

Posted on 01/30/2005 1:56:18 PM PST by ConservativeStatement

AMHERST - Are the images that now cover the walls outside Hampden Gallery at the University of Massachusetts campus obscene, thought-provoking, crude or ingenious? Some people cannot get past the naked forms in various acts of sex and violence. For others, the drawings in black marker by Austrian artist Heimo Wallner tell a story of society, filled with everything from violence, love, weapons and fame to pop music, torture, virtue and drugs. And for some, it's hard to understand or process the hundreds of figures and their actions.

(Excerpt) Read more at masslive.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: amherst; art; exhibit; umass; wallner
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To: freebilly
a junior from Athol
The name of the town is not Athol, the author has a lisp.
BTW - the nickname of UMass Amherst is the zoo.
21 posted on 01/30/2005 3:12:17 PM PST by ProudVet77 (Survivor of the great blizzard of aught five)
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To: judgeandjury

Ahhh..hum....

Is there a woman under all that?!!

Jim.....Jim......are you there?!!


22 posted on 01/30/2005 3:38:17 PM PST by This Just In (In the land of the blind, the one eyed man is king.)
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To: Izzy Dunne

A thousand words and no picture?


23 posted on 01/30/2005 3:53:14 PM PST by ALinArleta (One shot! One kill!)
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan

They could have gotten a bunch of middle schoolers to do that for the price of a pizza party. They already do it on bathroom walls, so what the hell?


24 posted on 01/30/2005 3:56:05 PM PST by coydog (My bathroom djinn can beat up your bathroom djinn!)
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan

A picture is worth a thousand words, someone said.


25 posted on 01/30/2005 4:23:20 PM PST by fish hawk
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To: wouldilie

I heard the story on a local radio newscast. I don't recall seeing any newspaper accounts; otherwise, I would have fulfilled the request. :-)


26 posted on 01/30/2005 4:25:23 PM PST by ConservativeStatement
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan

Pee on the wall. Who'll notice?


27 posted on 01/30/2005 4:27:55 PM PST by F16Fighter
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To: Blurblogger
"indeed are live-born with pajamas...."

And continue to fame and fortune that way exposing the MSM mental midgets...

28 posted on 01/30/2005 4:29:11 PM PST by litehaus
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To: F16Fighter

Just don't get too close to the wall in this weather. :-)


29 posted on 01/30/2005 4:29:45 PM PST by ConservativeStatement
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan

OUCH ;-)


30 posted on 01/30/2005 4:33:07 PM PST by F16Fighter
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan
My alma matter, making me so proud...
31 posted on 01/30/2005 5:04:09 PM PST by pabianice
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To: wouldilie
Here they are and not before you have dinner...
32 posted on 01/30/2005 5:05:50 PM PST by pabianice
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To: ProudVet77

Whlie the University of Massachusetts is in Amherst, there is also a town in Massachusetts called Athol.


33 posted on 01/30/2005 5:12:52 PM PST by Alas Babylon!
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan
One school has 9 and 10 year old kids put in jail for drawing this kind of stuff. Then another school pays money for this guy to draw the same kind of stuff. ?
34 posted on 01/30/2005 5:21:20 PM PST by fella
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To: GSlob

Lots of nakedness on the Sistine Chapel ceiling too though.


35 posted on 01/30/2005 5:23:57 PM PST by xp38
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan

Why not just portray everyone as skeletons. After all under all that skin and flesh, we are just bones.


36 posted on 01/30/2005 5:30:27 PM PST by reg45
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To: billorites
No one in my family has ever been naked.


37 posted on 01/30/2005 5:37:58 PM PST by reg45
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To: reg45

Well, apparently we're better than you!


38 posted on 01/30/2005 5:39:34 PM PST by billorites (freepo ergo sum)
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To: ProudVet77

Athol is actually the name of a town in this state.


39 posted on 01/30/2005 5:44:16 PM PST by Radix (Oh look, Mrs McNabb, Mrs McNabb! The Patriots are coming to the Super Bowl.)
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To: Izzy Dunne

If I paint some dirty pictures on a wall and say something stupid like"in the darkness we are all blind" could I get a scholarship?How about my favorite?It doesn't matter what color our skin is we are all pink inside.That should be worth a free ride at Harvard.


40 posted on 01/30/2005 5:49:28 PM PST by rdcorso (Where Is This Allah The Merciful?All I've Seen Is Allah The Terrorist Scumbag)
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