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To: Dane
I have seen the statues myself when in Washington, D.C. The artist was more interested in working scale, texture, and shadow together to create this art then politics.

They left me with an upbeat mood about the building, and by association the Justice Department. I like good art, and I note that the artist, Gutzon Borglum who carved Mt. Rushmore left plenty of bare female secondary sexual characteristics in the open in a few of his breathtaking sculptures he did before age sixty when he started his last great piece of enormous scale in South Dakota.

I don't want to go look at elephant dung, or jars of urine in some art that has been controversial lately; but I also don't want to see art become the commercial grade, cleansed product that used to make me want to throw-up whenever I saw Soviet or Nazi enforced standards present in their art.

No, I have a bad feeling about this, as I do about the art BYU had redone on campus to show historic Mormon figures without their beards because the students were not allowed facial hair either.

169 posted on 01/28/2002 7:44:59 AM PST by ThreePantherEightyDuce
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To: ThreePantherEightyDuce
No, I have a bad feeling about this, as I do about the art BYU had redone on campus to show historic Mormon figures without their beards because the students were not allowed facial hair either

What is wrong with an AG not wanting to have a picture with a big boob hanging over him on every front page of the nation?

Anyway I disagree with you about this being art. Art is in the eye of the beholder and I am sorry but that statue IMHO, is more appropriate for Hugh Hefner's garden.

Oh BTW, not all of one artist's creations are masterpieces.

178 posted on 01/28/2002 9:25:31 AM PST by Dane
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To: ThreePantherEightyDuce
as I do about the art BYU had redone on campus to show historic Mormon figures without their beards because the students were not allowed facial hair either.

They really did this????

277 posted on 01/28/2002 10:22:41 AM PST by sneakypete
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