Posted on 04/08/2016 5:30:42 PM PDT by Kaslin
His photographs of flowers are quite lovely.
The central issue was why were taxpayers being forced to subsidize his “work” ?
So how long has he been burning in Hell? Must seem like forever to him.
I once saw a photo spread of Elton John’s house and in it were wall sized naked sex act pictures from this pervert.
I knew then Elton and that fruit he married bought kids for something other than parenting.
No one can convince me otherwise.
Don’t ever Google Maplethorpe pictures.
A liberal-ish attorney of my acquaintance said he was watching it and turned it off when they started showing some of the sex act pictures, that it was really repulsive stuff.
Agreed. Although I tend not to like Modern Art, I do have a fairly broad range of art that I find interesting. Some of it is “odd”. I would always oppose censoring art that someone found “too strange” — but I very strongly oppose using taxpayer money to fund art which is, let us say, questionable.
The government should not be in the business of funding culture change, which is what Mapplethorpe and people like him are all about. Why should taxpayers pay? It’s manipulative and evil.
He was an absolute degenerate who died ravaged by an STD. The world is a far better place without him.
I'm no prude, but I find sex is far more interesting when it's not stressed. I think Patricia Neal in a tight dress in "The Fountainhead" was sexy without really trying. Madonna is not sexy despite trying her hardest.
But of course the issue here is the entertainment industry determined to foist perverted homosexual acts (and sexual issues period) on the American public for some reason. Maybe HBO has a very active homosexual audience, but it can't be that large. Nevertheless, HBO seems hellbent on airing series and docs on sexual subjects.
The wife and I dropped HBO after many years because frankly we found most of its programming boring. (Yes, we're old fogies) We originally subscribed to watch "The Sopranos." We simply don't care about having their overtly sexual programming crammed down our throats. Never saw one episode of "Hung," or their other series about Masters and Johnson, or the other crap.
Is there really an audience for this garbage? I can't believe the average American viewer, even if they're liberals, will find a documentary about a disturbed individual who made repulsive photographs worth watching. I could be wrong, but I don't think so.
Ugh.
I thought his “flowers-as-chick’s-beavers” paintings were nice, until I realized that was Georgia O’Keefe.
I gotta see this upcoming season of “Game of Thrones”, but I’m not keen of the idea of paying $10 a month extra for HBO.
Mapplethorpe also had pictures of child porn.
Stop paying HBO. Watch it for free on putlocker.is.
I cancelled HBO many years ago because of their substandard programming. I had paid thru Dec 31st but they stopped service on Dec 30 because of the New Years holiday weekend. They cancelled it acc. to their convenience, not what I paid for, and I missed some of their New Years Eve specials. Thought that was shitty.
So HBO is doing a movie on Lyndon Johnson and the civil rights act, Byran Cranston stars. I guess he now has a fetish for playing communists and making them out to be heros. The trailer painted Johnson in that light.
Somehow I doubt his real life line of “I’ll have those (n-word)s voting Democratic for the next 200 years” will be included.
Yeah, I caught that. Probably going to be more like a sci-fi movie, and nevermind reviewing what nationalizing the welfare state has done in 50 years to the Black community.
Some of Roberts work was exceptional
He was a messed up homosexual ....died hard
I don’t wish that on anyone
He was used up as a twink by the bears very early
One time a group of friends were all at one of our houses, happened to be a gay man who lived alone. I came down with a terrible migraine and he let me lie down on his bed until my pill took effect. At some point I felt a little better and picked up the book on his nightstand and opened it. It was a Mapplethorpe book of photos. The first few were flowers and normal subjects. Then boom it went into naked men wearing weird leather emphasized their privates, and one with a whip inserted. I shut the damn book, placed it back where it had been, and closed my eyes again. Within a few minutes I heard the owner come in and remove the book he had left there. Yeah.
My experience with Mapplethorpe. Later I read Patti Smith’s autobiography, and her partner in crime and roommate was Mapplethorpe, I believe. Didn’t he die of AIDS?
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