sculpture hidden from view amid bestiality concerns

[stormium]

art is in the eye of the beholder but, in 'george the athiest's' and rob mackay's eyes, all they sees is bestiality and a big wooden dick.

the scene: socratetes sculpture park in queens, new york, new york.

the sculpture: bear eats man.

the message: according to the artist (thordis adalsteinsdottir), the piece represents man's vulnerability in nature... which is why the man is naked and the bear is attacking him from behind.



when i first saw this sculpture, all i saw was the naked guy's penis, made a few off handed comments regarding 'wood' but it had not occurred to me that the bear's penis was inside the guy's butt. i suppose if you looked at the sculpture long enough, you could come to that conclusion... but, if you did... then wouldn't the issue be with you and not the sculpture? and if we allow censorship or a valid piece of artwork just because a few perverts are thinking that the bear is banging the guy's butt, then what's not to stop the censorship of other pieces of artwork on the premise that they are morally objectionable... but just to perverts?

source: http://www.qchron.com/editions/western/b...47daf.html

[System Folder]

That kind of thinking could lead one to wonder if the Venus de Milo is offensive to double amputees.

[joew771]

What is that medieval demon child trying to do to the sculpture with her evil mind powers? Maybe she doesn't like it either.

[NIK]

With or without the peen or the possible bestiality the fact remains that it's a piece of crap. The disgrace here is that anyone has wasted any time or money on something that looks like it was made by a pre-schooler. That is not art people, it's rubbish.

[stormium]

That is not art people, it's rubbish.

i believe that they also call it folk-art.