Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: US sex hysteria and art

pjbear opened this issue on Feb 26, 2006 ยท 53 posts


pjbear posted Mon, 27 February 2006 at 9:14 PM

Kendra: Why s/he used a European painter,you would have to ask the web artist! I only ran across this and thought it made a statement and was worth a laugh. I did not make it. Now do I understand you? I will venture a guess but it is only a guess. I imagine that the website used it because it is a great work of art and there are many splendid paintings of Maria lactans showing a naked breast and Jesus as a biologically intact boy, and other naked boys (like John the Babtist) or angels around them. These hang proudly in museums and churches all over Europe and are treasured. (actually the reason I was searching on the web is that I had seen so many of them here and especially from the Renaissance and late medieval that I was trying to find out if there was a trend over time. They are a genre.) While in the US John Ashcroft had them cover the naked breasts of the statue of Justice. That really maked us look silly and backward to Europeans. And personally I think that it is silly (and sitting here in Europe even embarassing in principle)that Poser children and animals come without genitals, presumably because of fears about the political activists and trends in the US.Not because they make better art models.To me biolgically disfigured models look disturbing as would humans without noses, or dogs without ears.