New Yorkers call for removal of Met painting that ‘sexualizes’ girl

New York Post ^ | December 3, 2017 | Natalie O'Neill

[sparklite2]

New Yorkers have launched a petition demanding that the Metropolitan Museum of Art remove a 1938 painting of a young woman with her underwear exposed, “given the current climate around sexual assault.”

The piece, titled “Thérèse Dreaming” by the French artist Balthus, “sexualizes” the girl, who is shown lounging in a skirt with her knee up on a chair, according to the petition, which was posted on the Web site Care 2.

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“Thérèse Dreaming” by Balthus
Mia Merrill, the New Yorker who started the petition, says the painting should be yanked from the venerable institution because Balthus — an erotic realist born in 1908 — had pedophilic tendencies.

[ClearCase_guy]

I guess the Left is ready for the bonfires of “degenerate art”. 1930s Germany. Good times, good times.

[snappahead]

Excellent question.
And I’m assuming they’re calling for the Senator from Minnesota to be taken down as well, ya know given the current climate around sexual assault and all

[TigersEye]

Why do I suspect that these “New Yorker’s” real problem is that this French artist is from an era where Frenchmen were actually attracted to women?

[henbane]

TAKE IT DOWN! PUT up some Gil Elvgren paintings!

Elvgren goes way back to when washing machines had wringers.

[Migraine]

Well, I guess that’s it for Georgia O’Keefe paintings then.

[jennychase]

Get Burka or Shawl over this picture.

[FrankR]

How about the “current climate” of angry women running around in “pussy” hats, and giant vagina’s around their necks. Or, protesting in the nude on gay day.

This girl appears to be all alone, and just relaxing. Are those feminazis telling us that it’s OK for men to sit in such positions, but not woman. Maybe she’s worked all day, and it tired.

Or, are the libs just paving the way for the burka?

[TXBlair]

And yet I’m sure these “prudes” are some of the same people who worship Roman Polanski.

[BradyLS]

Jeez. This is tame—almost innocent—compared to what scrolls by the public unannounced everyday in movies, on TV, and in print.

[Fiji Hill]

Show Your Linen, Miss Richardson--The Smoothies (1939)

Show your linen, Miss Richardson
Show your linen to everyone
Dance in a gay, ladylike way,
And we can have a barrel of fun

Show the lace of your petticoat
Lick your heels at the proper note
Show everybody that you’re really hep.
Show them that revolving step.
This is your inning, show your linen,
Dear Miss Richardson.

[hinckley buzzard]

Next they will follow this up by launching a campaign against Womanspreading.. Nah.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

The new Puritans. When are they gonna start wearing those friggin’ belt-buckle hats again?

[ThePatriotsFlag]

Actually, if you look at the 96 works of art of his you can see on the Internet, this one is one of the better ones ... it makes the person look real, his other things are more like caricatures ... some of the pencil drawings are also more realistic. Not my kind of art.

[OrangeHoof]

If she was grabbing her pussy, THAT would be offensive. Animal rights folks would be up in arms.

[Retvet]

Amazing! Ultra left progressive New York goes Victorian. This conservative believes this art(?) should be in A private or adults only porno display.

[deks]

Could you try that again... in English?

[Celerity]

So... They’re ISIS.

[Robert A Cook PE]

Butt there’s no celery in the laundry basket!

[11Bush]

Hope they never find out about Vargas.

[Chauncey Gardiner]

Perhaps a showing of the classic “Lolita” would go over like a fart in a diver’s helmet.