The statue of Justice in the lobby of the Department of Justice was covered because the statue depicted a naked human breast. Should all art that depicts the naked human form, whether sculpture or painting or otherwise, be taken off public view, covered, destroyed, or simply be left on public view? Michelangelo's David is hailed as a masterpiece, yet it depicts a human male in an unclothed condition. Is such art suitable for viewing by the public? By children? Your thoughts, please.
2007-02-04 07:12:02 · 13 answers · asked by jxt299 7 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Visual Arts ➔ Sculpture
Art of anyform should NOT be banned. If a piece of work depicts the naked human form, whatever media it is in, it should be shown as the artist intended it to-on public view. Many pieces of art contain nudity, from all different eras of time.
Children have the availability while standing beside their parents in line at the grocery store/gas station, to look over and see Paris Hilton's half blurred vagina on the cover of 10 magazines and look over further on the opposite side of the counter and see magazines such as Jugs, Playboy, etc.-why should we be worried about the CULTURE that is infused in ART when our own Playboy Pop culture is winning out through most of America? Children and the public see much more vivid things on TV then they have yet to see in an art museum. Art has the ability to positively change the way people/children look at the world. This is ART-it's sanity/reality/beauty fullfillment to the soul (as cliche as that sounds) nothing and no one should have the right to take it away nor hide any part of it!
2007-02-04 07:38:07 · answer #1 · answered by Jack-A 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
nudety is not a big deal and people need to get over they're shame. the nude form is not perverted or shameful. Children should not be sheltered from a nude statue. Any fanatic that things they're daughter will never see a penis if they demolish the david will have a painful life chasing animals around with diapers.
2007-02-04 11:52:40 · answer #2 · answered by Rhuby 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I couldn't believe John Ashcroft had the statue of justice covered up. What is more free than being naked-who are we the Taliban?
The human body is our shell, inside the shell is our soul. The exterior of anything is beautiful-horses, trees, mountains, and humans. Humans wear clothes to protect themselves from the elements, but under the clothes is beauty.
Feeling ashamed is only human. Animals feel no shame.
Humans are capable of many things and thoughts- we can choose evil or bad, good and beautiful.
If we view everything as good and beautiful than everything is good and beautiful.
2007-02-04 07:27:05 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Freedom of speech is protected by the constitution in the US.
In Islam it is banned however, along with any depictions of human beings.
2007-02-04 07:15:59 · answer #4 · answered by polk2525 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Before I would ask if any art such as Michelangelo's David is suitable for public viewing, I'd be asking about the suitability of ubiquitous, gratuitous, sexualized images touted by the media and in the mainstream.
2007-02-04 08:27:52 · answer #5 · answered by Katryoshka 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Banned!......Destroyed!...Out of public view! ABSOLUTELY NOT! I cringe to even think of it, censorship gone awry. Lets just spray paint over the Sistine Chapel! Michaelangelo's David is a piece of Art History in its purest form.
2007-02-05 07:58:41 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
oh my... it is art! not pornography!!!!
there is a difference and it takes the appreciation of the nude human body to understand the difference --obviously.
so, no!!! banning nudity in art is like banning the flute in music because you think it is a sexual reference... grow up & get over it!!!
2007-02-05 14:26:52 · answer #7 · answered by christy 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If the Human Form was good enough for the Creator, should mere mortals object to it?
2007-02-04 07:48:29 · answer #8 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The human form is artistic in itself. An attempt to censor artistic freedom would, esentially, undo the freedoms that we, as humans, have worked so hard to maintain.
God, why would you even bring this up? Kill yourself.
2007-02-04 07:39:46 · answer #9 · answered by Brendon G 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
yes, of course it is suitable for viewing. the increasing american fundamentalist prudishness slowly but surely is getting my goat. her in côntinental europe not once have i heard such a question asked. we are born naked, during our lives we are often naked, where is the problem with that?
2007-02-05 02:50:12 · answer #10 · answered by bobo 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋