guarie opened this issue on Jun 24, 2003 ยท 68 posts
lmckenzie posted Tue, 24 June 2003 at 8:52 PM
I think everyone agrees that those who lack the good breeding or the common sense to express their opinions in a civil manner should be ignored. Life is too short to worry about every idiot along the way. I disagree somewhat with the "no gallery..." view. I don't think that art should be an incestuous endeavow where only those who create it have a right to express an opinion. It should be about the human emotions that it inspires in the viewer, any viewer, even if they've never picked up a brush or a mouse. Obviously, the figure seems to have inspired a negative reaction from this person and they were too immature or too stupid to express that appropriately. Unfortunately, some people are always going to view depictions of the nude human body through various moral, religious and other prisims that have little to do with the intent of the artist. Personally, I think it's a stunning figure, done exceedingl;y well. IMO anyone who thinks she looks 11 hasn't looked at many Asian women. I just did a quick Google search and looked at some Filipinas on a "marriage" site. A few that looked no older than Ricci turned out to be in their twenties and one is 32.
"Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance." - H. L. Mencken