Gloves off in nude sculpture dispute

The Denver Post ^ | 8/3/06 | Monte Whaley

[Millee]

[ahayes]

I think it's kind of cool. Better than some junkheap of concrete and steel.

[Millee]

What say you, art fans?

[GSlob]

A Michelangelo or a Praxiteles this sculptor Kirsten Kokkin is surely not. They should have gotten it on the artistic merit [or rather lack thereof] instead of nudity.

[RAY]

What is the difference between "nude" and "naked"?

[GSlob]

"What is the difference between "nude" and "naked"?"
Aesthetical. "David" is "nude". "Bacchus" is "nude". But this crap is "naked". Had it possessed artistic merit and value [beyond that of its bronze at about a dollar per pound], it would be "nude", too.

[martin_fierro]

To have the figures doing the same pose clothed would've detracted from the artistic statement, y'see.

[supercat]

A Michelangelo or a Praxiteles this sculptor Kirsten Kokkin is surely not.

True, but at least from the photo it looks like it's probably better than 90% of what's out there.

[Dumpster Baby]

"Triangle"

"Threeway"

[motormouth]

yeah, I want one just like it for my coffee table.

MM

[Millee]

About 30 pounds.

{Bada-Boom!}

[austinmark]

Ya know, it COULD have been worse....

( Brittany "Birthing" in Bronze )

[JRios1968]

[Larry Lucido]

You know, after spending all that time posing for that sculpture, I'd hate to see it covered up.

[Osage Orange]

Oh.....my eyes!!

[RockinRight]

My eyes!! My eyes!!

[JRios1968]

See, I win...uh, no, what I mean is...

[Zetman]

I have wondered about the appropriateness of this sort of thing myself. A town near us, Walnut Creek, California, has a statue of a nude woman standing on a pedestal, reading a book. It is out on a busy street in their new shopping district (very popular and very busy shopping area). My 7 year old daughter sees it whenever we walk past it. I don't like it, but I figure that if I freaked out about it, I would give the thing more prominence in my daughters mind than it deserves. Instead, when she saw it, I made a comment about how silly/stupid-looking the woman is, standing there with no clothes on, like a little baby who doesn't know better (or some such thing like that - I can't remember EXACTLY what I said).

No doubt, some artiste-type on a similar council had it put there under the cover of it being non-sexual, and a "tasteful" nude. That's the "cover" they always use to do something like this. They are being oh-so reasonable, educated, mature, and open-minded about such things. If you disagree with them, you are the opposite.

I love it how these liberals come up with what they consider to be insulting names for anyone who disagrees with them. In case, the word chosen was "prude". It seems that on a social/mental scale, they have never advanced beyond high school, or grade school even.

[BJClinton]

Were you in the pool?

[Feiny]

I do like his buns.