Posted on 12/12/2007 8:13:39 AM PST by mngran2
It's sexy, it's sacrilegious, it's scandalous, and it's just in time for Christmas. LA's hottest art curator Lenora Claire has done it again with a new collection of saucy art pieces guaranteed to get folks hot and bothered.
Mixing Christmas themes with ample female breasts...Claire chose not to rest on her laurels of the hugely successful Golden Gals Gone Wild collection of this summer, but instead opted to pump up the volume with a new group of art that's poised to get viewers hot under the collar.
We were lucky enough to interview the Los Feliz curator who will present Merry Titmas at the World of Wonder gallery next weekend...
LAist: The painting of the Holy Mother wearing a Hooters tank top will clearly offend a lot of people. Especially because instead of the Messiah in the manger, it' s a couple dozen hot wings. When exactly did you sell your soul to the Devil?
Lenora Claire: I've always said art much like breasts should be in your face. Since this is a show about art and breasts I started thinking of taking something as classic as a typical nativity scene and giving it a pop twist. I really feel that is the Virgin Mary found herself knocked up today that she would have to go work at Hooters to support the baby Jesus. Like everything I do there are high brow and low brow elements. It's all about subversion.
Sure on one level people are going to be shocked but that is what gets them talking. You can either get off on the humor of it or the bold feminist statement. Or you can be offended. My goal with this show is to stimulate and titillate and I know I've accomplished that.
(Excerpt) Read more at laist.com ...
Finally, someone talks about Christmas.
Wait a minute......
I’ll wait for his Ramadan exhibit.
Errrrrmmmm, where's the piece that shows Mohammad as dog eating his own vomit? What? Haven't got the guts for that one??
He’s too cowardly to do that!
nuf said. p.s. you're sick in the head!
Beat me to it.
This is not a "bold statement", it's a wimpy-ass Liberal insult to common sense.
Bump.
I have no problem with this statement.
I really feel that is the Virgin Mary found herself knocked up today that she would have to go work at Hooters to support the baby Jesus.
True, but Joseph was a real man, not a metrosexual or a hoodie.
Real artists are supposed to be edgy and bold. This artist is anything but that. Christian bashing is about the safest and most tired route an artist can take — especially in Hollywood.
If her goal was to make me crave some hot wings, mission accomplished. Otherwise, I can’t see any merit in this.
The difference between this and the Madonna made out of elephant dung or the crucifix submerged in a jar of urine etc is those works were funded and exhibited using tax dollars.
The same constititional prohibition on promoting my religious faith also prohibits them from using the power of the State to criticize and mock my religious faith.
Wonder if Hooters plans to sue over trademark infringement.
It also shows what an a-class jerk you are.
Are there many virgins working at Hooters?
Would it be “freedom of expression” if someone went down their and sprayed it with gasoline and lit it on fire? After all, it is considered freedom of expression/speech to burn the US flag.
“I really feel that is the Virgin Mary found herself knocked up today....”
Is that how Mary was impregnated over 2000 years ago? Did God knock her up then? (sarcasm)
The last refuge of the incompetent.
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