1,100-square-foot mural creating stir at UMass

http://www.masslive.com/chicopeeholyoke/republican/index.ssf?/base/news-6/1106988663304590.xml ^ | January 29, 2005 | HOLLY ANGELO

[ConservativeStatement]

AMHERST - Are the images that now cover the walls outside Hampden Gallery at the University of Massachusetts campus obscene, thought-provoking, crude or ingenious? Some people cannot get past the naked forms in various acts of sex and violence. For others, the drawings in black marker by Austrian artist Heimo Wallner tell a story of society, filled with everything from violence, love, weapons and fame to pop music, torture, virtue and drugs. And for some, it's hard to understand or process the hundreds of figures and their actions.

[ProudVet77]

a junior from Athol
The name of the town is not Athol, the author has a lisp.
BTW - the nickname of UMass Amherst is the zoo.

[This Just In]

Ahhh..hum....

Is there a woman under all that?!!

Jim.....Jim......are you there?!!

[ALinArleta]

A thousand words and no picture?

[coydog]

They could have gotten a bunch of middle schoolers to do that for the price of a pizza party. They already do it on bathroom walls, so what the hell?

[fish hawk]

A picture is worth a thousand words, someone said.

[ConservativeStatement]

I heard the story on a local radio newscast. I don't recall seeing any newspaper accounts; otherwise, I would have fulfilled the request. :-)

[F16Fighter]

Pee on the wall. Who'll notice?

[litehaus]

"indeed are live-born with pajamas...."

And continue to fame and fortune that way exposing the MSM mental midgets...

[ConservativeStatement]

Just don't get too close to the wall in this weather. :-)

[F16Fighter]

OUCH ;-)

[pabianice]

My alma matter, making me so proud...

[pabianice]

Here they are and not before you have dinner...

[Alas Babylon!]

Whlie the University of Massachusetts is in Amherst, there is also a town in Massachusetts called Athol.

[fella]

One school has 9 and 10 year old kids put in jail for drawing this kind of stuff. Then another school pays money for this guy to draw the same kind of stuff. ?

[xp38]

Lots of nakedness on the Sistine Chapel ceiling too though.

[reg45]

Why not just portray everyone as skeletons. After all under all that skin and flesh, we are just bones.

[reg45]

No one in my family has ever been naked.

That does not compute
• They never change their clothes
• or underwear
• or take baths
• or showers - Phew!
• or ...
• therefore, you must be adopted.

[billorites]

Well, apparently we're better than you!

[Radix]

Athol is actually the name of a town in this state.

[rdcorso]

If I paint some dirty pictures on a wall and say something stupid like"in the darkness we are all blind" could I get a scholarship?How about my favorite?It doesn't matter what color our skin is we are all pink inside.That should be worth a free ride at Harvard.