Art or Fart?

[Bogart]

Terri St. Cloud came to take her painted doors and other artwork down Friday. Her two sons helped, carefully pulling her watercolor poetry off the walls of the Wylde Women Gallery in Leonardtown.</NITF>

<NITF>St. Cloud and Tammy Vitale, a founding artist of the gallery at the Maryland Antique Center, say someone with the center objected to one of St. Cloud's pieces, turned it facedown and asked Vitale to remove it.</NITF>

<NITF>So they're leaving.</NITF>

<NITF>"It's censorship," Vitale said.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2219-2004Oct2.html

 

[Sharon]

That's ugly anyway... good riddance.

 

[Tonio]

From what I saw in the Enterprise and Post Extra, the piece didn't qualify as artistic expression. It was just a scrawl done in a fit of politically motivated anger. This may sound pompous, but any message in "art" shouldn't be pounded into the audience's head like a sledgehammer.

 

[Bogart]

I feel bad for the doors.

 

[vraiblonde]

Fart

 

[Penn]

Fart

Vrai, PLEASE!! I heard women DO NOT fart!

 

[Sharon]

A nude painting of President George W. Bush is a little too funky for the "Funky Furniture" exhibit. A cartoonish painting, called "Man of Leisure, King George," showed a nude President George W. Bush reclining on a couch with his head propped up by pillows. It's a take-off on Manet's Impressionist masterpiece, "Olympia."

Instead of the female servant who stands behind Olympia's couch, a man in suit and tie resembling Vice President Dick Cheney stands nearby, holding a cushion with a crown and a miniature oil rig on top of it.

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http://www.wftv.com/news/3799845/detail.html

 

[Hessian]

Yeah...they haven't been the same since Jim Morrison disappeared in Africa.


oh...you meant the artwork....silly me.

 

[vraiblonde]

http://www.wftv.com/news/3799845/detail.html

Fart. And not very good fart at that.

 

[Wickedwrench]

Certainly not done in very good taste.