Fury as gallery removes Victorian Pre-Raphaelite masterpiece of pubescent naked nymphs [tr]

UK Daily Mail ^ | February 1, 2018 | Amie Gordon

[C19fan]

A leading art gallery is facing a furious backlash after taking down a Pre-Raphaelite masterpiece in a bid to 'provoke debate'. Manchester Art Gallery has temporarily removed John William Waterhouse's Hylas and the Nymphs in an attempt to rethink historical artwork that 'presents the female body as either a 'passive decorative form' or a 'femme fatale'.'

[Delta 21]

SHoulda set a Mason jar full of urine with a crucifix in it on your desk and see how she liked that.

[Daffynition]

[Daffynition]

It’s the Kardashians!

[Daffynition]

How can you be so astute so early in the morning? GEESH! :)

[C210N]

In this day and age, they could do the equivalent of photoshop to the paintings and “address” the naughty parts. It’s in Britain, could probably consult with Terry Gilliam.

[Red Badger]

...and finished it off with Occam’s Razor.................

[Joe 6-pack]

Coffee.
Copious amounts of coffee.

[PapaBear3625]

The girls have breasts. They are post-pubescent.

[mairdie]

One of my very favorite artists.

http://www.iment.com/maida/family/mother/vicars/laurensalmatadema.htm

Mother raised me on a book of academic nudes which is now self-destructing. So I put the book online as an experiment in how to make an art book as accessible as a book in your hand. Talk about comfort food!

[I-ambush]

Yes, but Hyalas did not check their drivers licenses to see if they were over 18.

[McGarrett]

As the great Lewis Grizzard said when talking about Yankees making fun of Southern speech. “Take the word Nekkid. We know the difference between naked and nekkid. Naked means you don’t have any clothes on. Nekkid means you don’t have any clothes on and you’re up to somethin’.”

[elcid1970]

Those are young women. Beyond any doubt

Maybe the painting was removed because of death threats from Muslims.

[ican'tbelieveit]

OOOH... wonder what is going to happen to Victoria’s Secret.

Don’t they have some TV special every year?

[eldoradude]

Socialist taliban at work.

[aquila48]

The new puritanism - brought to you by... The feminazis.

This is truly hilarious.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Well they better not mess with the Gil Elvgrin paintings, or the sweet young things from the 1950s calendars riding the RIGID tools!
Then there is The Birth of Venus in the Met.

[buffaloguy]

I’ll take all the original Waterhouse paintings the gallery has. And the Tademas.

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[sparklite2]

It’s stuff like this that gives child porn a bad name.

[SunkenCiv]

I set it on *her* desk, made sure there were no fingerprints on it, then turned her in. ;^)

[SunkenCiv]

http://www.google.com/search?q=breeches+painters