Ummm.....
Posted on 07/07/2010 3:52:07 AM PDT by Kjirstje
UPI - A scene painted on a beaver statue struck some observers as female genitalia, prompting its removal from a public art walk in Bemidji, Minn., an organizer said.
Deborah Davis of Blackduck says her piece of art, one of nine fibreglass beaver sculptures painted by area artists, was meant to portray a praying woman's hands.
But about 20 people who sized it up as they took in downtown Bemidji's Sculpture Walk called city officials to say they saw something entirely different when they looked at the beaver's belly. And so the offending statue disappeared from the public space on Thursday by order of City Manager John Chattin.
Al Belleveau, president of the Bemidji Sculpture Walk, said he transported the sculpture to his yard until the City Council rules on its future on Tuesday.
But removing the beaver stirred emotions in others who are upset the sculpture was removed. Davis said a group of people had gathered at the spot where her statue had stood carrying signs that read "Censored" and some of the other beaver artists covered up their own works in solidarity with her.
"My intent was to paint Mother Nature, Mother Earth," said Davis, a former kindergarten teacher. "I didn't understand that some people saw genitalia. ... I understand people see different things in art, and they need to be free to do that. ... My intent was to paint a praying woman."
Photo is posted at: http://naturalplane.blogspot.com for 07/07/2010
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_iq2vQY1Jeaw/TDN0TKI_x6I/AAAAAAAAUp4/Kp5ADD64KHA/s1600/beaver.jpg
So much of “art” these days just isn’t art.
That was no suggestion.
Definitely a liar. Can you believe the artist was a kindergarden teacher?
Georgia O’Keefe wannabe.
Even without the “suggestive” part, that is one godawful piece of ugly.
That is one weird blogsite but there is no doubt that the “work of art” should either be in Penthouse or a gynecology textbook.
Agreed. That's a beaver... and a big one too!
Save a tree, eat a ......
Pretty clear that ol’ Deborah was trying to pull a fast one...
22. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to “eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms.”
23. Control art critics and directors of art museums. “Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art.”
24. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them “censorship” and a violation of free speech and free press.
25. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV.
26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as “normal, natural, healthy.”
http://www.uhuh.com/nwo/communism/comgoals.htm
Not only is it a vagina, but it appears to have herpes, to boot!
People need to understand that this is not just a simple lack of taste. This is an intentional long term plan to destroy America.
Communist goals number 22 through 25 as read on the floor of the US House by A S Herlong of Florida in 1963
[22. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to “eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms.”
23. Control art critics and directors of art museums. “Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art.”
24. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them “censorship” and a violation of free speech and free press.
25. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV.]
http://www.uhuh.com/nwo/communism/comgoals.htm
You beat me to it. I left out number 26.
Forgot this...
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0574189/
“Praying hands” ...Yup!
Sure!
Absolutely!
Un-Huh!
(I’ve been praying for hands like those since I hit puberty. I even mentioned it in my letters to Yoni.)
((Good thing she didn’t try to paint “Our Lady Of Guadalupe” on a beaver ... or would that be redundant?))
i’m thankful they were able to have a reason to get rid of it. it’s hideous anyway.
BTW, it looks diseased. I think she needs to paint a tube of gynolotramin.
Ummm.....
in dollars and cents, 26 has cost the most monies so far
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