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INDY500 said:
Holy shit...literally. Now I've heard it all.
Nudity has been used in art since, well, forever as well, but that hardly means that surrounding an image of the Madonna with phonographic cut-outs of vaginas and buttocks wouldn't be perceived by many Christians as a offensive.
But this isn't about "art" hanging in a gallery. It's about a picture of it being published in a newspaper that just 24 hours earlier declared it's editorial policy was to "refrain from gratuitous assaults on religious symbols."
However, next time I visit Paris and the Musée du Louvre I'll be sure and check out their, no doubt, immense exhibit of Elephant Dung Art. Guess I missed it last time.
Oh, now you go look up what you should have been offended by...
Funny you didn't mention that before. Um, Mary has been painted nude before. What is pornographic about a vagina exactly? Isn't that how Jesus was delivered?
But you are right this isn't about art hanging in the gallery, it's the fact that you wouldn't have been offended by the newsprint picture of it, until you went and did some research as to why you were offended by it. Kinda funny isn't it that you have to look up why you are offended, while the cartoons offended and were designed to offend from first glance.
And yes the Louve actually does have art using Elephant dung, Elk dung, human and animal blood. So you did miss it.