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  • Utah art teacher is fired after parents complain about classical paintings (tr)

    12/30/2017 8:29:17 AM PST · by Oshkalaboomboom · 115 replies
    Daily Mail ^ | Dec 30, 2017 | AP and Matthew Wright
    A Utah art teacher was fired amid complaints that images of classical paintings containing nudity were passed out in a classroom and seen by sixth-graders, a newspaper reported. Mateo Rueda said he wasn't aware that a set of educational postcards from the elementary school library contained a few works depicting nudity when he handed them out during a lesson, the Herald Journal newspaper said Thursday. The two images seen by students were the Impressionist-era portrait Iris Tree by Amedeo Modigliani and the Rococo-style partial nude Odalisque by 18th-century artist Francois Boucher, the teacher said. Also included in The Art Box...