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Rev. Skarekroe		2011-02-25 09:29:22 AM

I think I felt teeth: Of course being subjected to Rubens at an early age makes me like women with a bit of meat on their bones. Not fatties, just not bone skinny.

The problem with Ruben chicks is that they're kinda flabby. They don't need to lose a lot of weight necessarily, but they should try to get some muscle tone under there.

KatjaMouse		2011-02-25 09:31:04 AM

gregory311: CaptAtl: i want the print when they take it down. It is good modern art. I would give a healthy donation to the MIA for it.

I'm more interested to know where you're going to display it than how much you're willing to pay for it.

Seriously. That thing is probably as big as your house. And if you trim it down to just the graffiti it's still a story and a half tall. Maybe you can carpet your basement with it.

Aidan		2011-02-25 09:31:07 AM

Rev. Skarekroe: I think I felt teeth: Of course being subjected to Rubens at an early age makes me like women with a bit of meat on their bones. Not fatties, just not bone skinny.

The problem with Ruben chicks is that they're kinda flabby. They don't need to lose a lot of weight necessarily, but they should try to get some muscle tone under there.

If I've got my dates right (which I probably don't), at that time, not only was privilege indicated by size, but also by the ability to live without having to work for it. Which would explain the err... paintability of the kinda flabby women.

You probably know this already.

KatjaMouse		2011-02-25 09:32:57 AM

Rev. Skarekroe: I think I felt teeth: Of course being subjected to Rubens at an early age makes me like women with a bit of meat on their bones. Not fatties, just not bone skinny.

The problem with Ruben chicks is that they're kinda flabby. They don't need to lose a lot of weight necessarily, but they should try to get some muscle tone under there.

Just remember, there have been people fapping to those mermaids for centuries.
www.artchive.com

Jackson Herring		2011-02-25 09:35:14 AM

Holy cow look at them heifers

goober1223		2011-02-25 09:35:42 AM

KatjaMouse: Venus on a Half Shell

Turtle power!

KatjaMouse		2011-02-25 09:37:35 AM

Jackson Herring: Holy cow look at them heifers

There was a time when people liked rounded knees.

Foolkiller		2011-02-25 09:40:16 AM

Was that Titian red they used?

Rev. Skarekroe		2011-02-25 09:41:24 AM

KatjaMouse: Jackson Herring: Holy cow look at them heifers

There was a time when people liked rounded knees.

Looks like the mermaid on the right has one hell of an outie.

lenfromak		2011-02-25 09:41:34 AM

What offended me was the rash of pop-ups that I was set to block. Yow!

Cer10Death		2011-02-25 09:42:32 AM

I am sending a $100 donation to this museum. Why? Because they didn't react like total ass clowns in a world where that's all people do is act like ass clowns!

Coming on a Bicycle		2011-02-25 09:43:10 AM

- There's a toilet on the floor, mommy !
- That's a conversation I'm not willing to have yet, Yaiden.

Brad_Will		2011-02-25 09:43:58 AM

This statue of Persephone is on the Syracuse campus. It was on the quad when I was there, but they moved it (along with the other statues that were on campus) to the courtyard of the art building.

farm4.static.flickr.com

I don't know if they still do it, but students would give the statue a shirt when it got really cold in the winter. But it was to be funny, not insufferably prudish.

KatjaMouse		2011-02-25 09:45:48 AM

"But he painted a big color block. It's art?"

"Umm... uhh... this is a conversation I'm not ready to have."

Samuel Beale's Ghost		2011-02-25 09:48:30 AM

Walker: The American taliban strikes again. Here's the billboard before the self-righteous censors ruined it:

KatjaMouse: Rev. Skarekroe: The problem with Ruben chicks is that they're kinda flabby. They don't need to lose a lot of weight necessarily, but they should try to get some muscle tone under there.

Just remember, there have been people fapping to those mermaids for centuries.

I think I felt teeth:
Of course being subjected to Rubens at an early age makes me like women with a bit of meat on their bones. Not fatties, just not bone skinny.

God damn it, how about using NSFW links and not putting foobies directly in the thread!! Won't somebody think of the children??

Le French Boo		2011-02-25 09:49:30 AM

austin_millbarge: "Some people said it forced them to talk to their children about nudity in art, a conversation they weren't ready to have."

Translation: They are morons who will never learn how to talk to their children and their daughters are candidates for the pole as a result.

They'll probably be a candidates for my pole. After they turn 18 of course.

/A meatball right over the plate

I think I felt teeth		2011-02-25 09:52:48 AM

KatjaMouse:

Just remember, there have been people fapping to those mermaids for centuries.

i51.tinypic.com

HAMMERTOE		2011-02-25 09:56:00 AM

Stupid shiat like this is why I draw cocks on religious statues.

Chameleon		2011-02-25 09:56:08 AM

FTFA:

The museum has fielded about 10 calls from angry passers-by who said they weren't comfortable seeing nudity outside of the museum, said MIA marketing director Kristin Prestegaard. Some people said it forced them to talk to their children about nudity in art, a conversation they weren't ready to have.

I have a feeling this was the part they were upset about.

The Jami Turman Fan Club		2011-02-25 09:58:59 AM

On the one hand, I think it was wonderfully done.

On the other hand, I think Clear Channel was afraid if they left it up, somebody else would try to do it on a different billboard, get hurt, and sue them.

Ah, what a world we live in.

dionysusaur		2011-02-25 10:01:08 AM

Mr. Shabooboo: " In all time in this wretched Godforsaken country, the one thing that has appalled me most of all this this preposterous preoccupation with bosoms. Don't you realize they have become the dominant theme in American culture: in literature, advertising and all fields of entertainment and everything. I'll wager you anything you like that if American women stopped wearing brassieres, your whole national economy would collapse overnight."

J. Algernon Hawthorne; It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World

So THAT'S what led to the stagflation of the 70's!

I think I felt teeth		2011-02-25 10:01:29 AM

HAMMERTOE: Stupid shiat like this is why I draw cocks on religious statues.

Or, you might have caught a bit of the ghey.

NTTATWWT

LemSkroob		2011-02-25 10:10:27 AM

But she said Clear Channel Outdoor, the company that owns the billboard, has a policy that ads with graffiti must be taken down so as not to encourage vandalism.

YAY FOR COOPERATE POLICIES!!!!

Latinwolf		2011-02-25 10:24:23 AM

The Mind Boggles: Walker: The American taliban strikes again. Here's the billboard before the self-righteous censors ruined it:

That is what they had a problem with??? OMFG people are farktards.
Its like the fundies have a 'death by breast' complex, that their faces may melt if they see a painting of a breast. Come to think of it, can we put these billboards up everywhere and thin out the herd of fundies???

If it causes them to kill themselves, I'm all for it.

Bobbi Wickham		2011-02-25 10:25:35 AM

Geez, Not ready to talk about art. The beauty of the human form etc etc? Maybe it's because my Mom had art history books laying around but I don't get it at all. There is a difference between a nude and porn a biiiig difference and if you can't tell the difference shame on you.

Craptastic		2011-02-25 10:31:21 AM

Ya know, I think I'll visit my local art museum tomorrow. I haven't been for a while, and there are some new exhibits.

Thank you, random fundie tit-hater, for reminding me to support the arts. I might also make a donation to my favorite NPR station, as I could use a new coffee cup.

MightyPez		2011-02-25 10:32:53 AM

LemSkroob: But she said Clear Channel Outdoor, the company that owns the billboard, has a policy that ads with graffiti must be taken down so as not to encourage vandalism.

YAY FOR COOPERATE POLICIES!!!!

Cooperate with what?

UNAUTHORIZED FINGER		2011-02-25 10:34:47 AM

gilgamesh23: That's really funny. And thanks for reminding me, subby; it's been months since I visited the MIA.

When I lived in MSP, we visited at least every six months. MIA is a wonderful museum. They have a great representation of Impressionist artists, with a Van Gogh that I want to touch so bad, a HUGE Rembrandt, Mary Cassatt, Toulouse Lautrec (strongest lines I've ever seen, best poster painter ever), Degas, Goya, and God knows who I'm leaving off. You can spend a day looking at just their Chinese artwork. MIA is truly a world-class museum.

ChrisDe		2011-02-25 10:42:44 AM

UNAUTHORIZED FINGER: gilgamesh23: That's really funny. And thanks for reminding me, subby; it's been months since I visited the MIA.

When I lived in MSP, we visited at least every six months. MIA is a wonderful museum. They have a great representation of Impressionist artists, with a Van Gogh that I want to touch so bad, a HUGE Rembrandt, Mary Cassatt, Toulouse Lautrec (strongest lines I've ever seen, best poster painter ever), Degas, Goya, and God knows who I'm leaving off. You can spend a day looking at just their Chinese artwork. MIA is truly a world-class museum.

www.80s.com

I think I've seen you there.

/hot like Seurat

HAMMERTOE		2011-02-25 10:44:18 AM

I think I felt teeth: Or, you might have caught a bit of the ghey.

Nah. I draw them on the women too.

:)

Le French Boo		2011-02-25 10:46:47 AM

For all you art-snob types, there was a gallery a few years back called "Paint Made Flesh" that toured the US. The curator did a wonderful job and had a Jenny Saville about 3/4 of the way through that will just blow your mind. Here is a link if your interested: Link (new window)

And somewhere out there is a book covering all the paintings in the show. Wish I had the money to buy it :/

UNAUTHORIZED FINGER		2011-02-25 10:50:03 AM

ChrisDe: I think I've seen you there.

/hot like Seurat

LOL, they have a Seurat also! Thanks for reminding me.

/when UNAUTHORIZED FINGER was in Egypt land,
//let my people go

Le French Boo		2011-02-25 10:51:46 AM

*you're

/I draw better than I write

I think I felt teeth		2011-02-25 10:52:29 AM

HAMMERTOE: I think I felt teeth: Or, you might have caught a bit of the ghey.

Nah. I draw them on the women too.

:)

A woman with a penis? Well who hasn't woken up with one of those after a night of heavy drinking.

Amirite guys?
Guys?
Hello?

DaBishop		2011-02-25 10:58:23 AM

Typical Minneapolis graffiti. Always interesting.

/anyone remember the giant question mark on the building by the river? It was 20 stories in the air. How the $!*@ did they do that?

Metalupis		2011-02-25 10:59:29 AM

I'm happy with how the museum responded, I got to walk through the MIA last summer when I was up that way, very cool place to spend an afternoon

Gimbal		2011-02-25 11:01:46 AM

Revised for brevity:

halB: For all of those "oh this is art" [blah blah blah] people, I must remind you that [blah blah blah blah]

[blah blah blah blah inane blah blah]?

So, this would be like taking an old hustler magazine, and putting it up on a billboard in 2100 to display the "art" of 1980. (Especially because [blah blah blah blah]).

^This

Not quite.

/Your backside is not a suitable citation for reference

yoyopro		2011-02-25 11:11:49 AM

DaBiship
Typical Minneapolis graffiti. Always interesting.

/anyone remember the giant question mark on the building by the river? It was 20 stories in the air. How the $!*@ did they do that?

I have mixed feelings about these kinds of things - -
typical graffiti (such as "tagging") = ugly vandalism
clever graffiti (such as this billboard or the giant question mark) = vandilarity . . . I don't want to approve of it, but I can't help getting a chuckle out of it!

Ex-Texan		2011-02-25 11:18:41 AM

America, slowly getting there, one slippery slope retard at a time; burt they didn't finish the burqa.

I'm curious to know ho you think might be responsible for this. I'd love to catch taggers on a billboard one day. Paintball their asses until I get bored. It's not like they can run, huh?

Raging Thespian		2011-02-25 11:19:58 AM

The thing I like the most about the arts community in the Twin Cities is that we aren't stuck up snobs about it (for the most part).

Brad_Will		2011-02-25 11:25:49 AM

Ex-Texan: America, slowly getting there, one slippery slope retard at a time

www.fohguild.org

MightyPez		2011-02-25 11:26:01 AM

yoyopro: DaBiship
Typical Minneapolis graffiti. Always interesting.

/anyone remember the giant question mark on the building by the river? It was 20 stories in the air. How the $!*@ did they do that?

I have mixed feelings about these kinds of things - -
typical graffiti (such as "tagging") = ugly vandalism
clever graffiti (such as this billboard or the giant question mark) = vandilarity . . . I don't want to approve of it, but I can't help getting a chuckle out of it!

And sometimes graffiti is downright breathtaking (new window)
solehiphop.files.wordpress.com

lilistonic		2011-02-25 11:26:57 AM

"Some people said it forced them to talk to their children about nudity in art, a conversation they weren't ready to have."

Reads just like a parody news article.

My three boys, who are 13, 14 and 16, have three older sisters. So they've always been subjected to discussions of bras, cramps, and so on, just as the older girls were used to seeing their little brothers being changed and bathed. And I assume they get their looks at porn on the internet when I'm not in the room with them, but we have plenty of real art around here as well, in books and things.

A couple weeks ago, I had them watch the uncut version of The Shining with me, as a way of making up for the fairly highbrow stuff I usually make them endure. I'd forgotten about the bathroom scene so I couldn't say ahead of time, as I do, "hey guys, there are some boobies in this movie, don't be too shocked!"

I just sat back and watched their interest turn to horror as the pretty woman decayed into rotting old flesh.

Now that's parenting!

HAMMERTOE		2011-02-25 11:32:25 AM

Brad_Will: slippery slope... that's waisis!!

I believe the correct term is Attractive and well-lubricated Asian-American.

tallguywithglasseson		2011-02-25 11:44:12 AM

Wrong_Intentions: gilgamesh23: That's really funny. And thanks for reminding me, subby; it's been months since I visited the MIA.

Yoi've been MIA from the MIA?

Ha! Nice.

...

Would like to echo what my neighbors have been saying, the Minneapolis Institute of the Arts is awesome. And mostly free! (donations accepted). Highly recommend people visit if they're in town.

wumpus		2011-02-25 11:50:34 AM

I find crucifixes offensive, but I don't biatch about it. It's a little naked man in obvious pain and often covered in blood nailed to a couple 2x4s. The lady on the billboard looks like she's having an alright time.

Dan2ine		2011-02-25 12:13:11 PM

By the way, here's what the vandalism looks like:
stmedia.startribune.com

Somehow, I very much doubt it's the work of the militant arm of the Lutheran Ladies' League.

Good for MIA for being able to take a joke and some free publicity.

/Uff da!

Aidan		2011-02-25 12:14:19 PM

Dan2ine: By the way, here's what the vandalism looks like:

Somehow, I very much doubt it's the work of the militant arm of the Lutheran Ladies' League.

Good for MIA for being able to take a joke and some free publicity.

/Uff da!

Hah. Actually that's hilarious. I love it.

I wouldn't think that was "fundie anti-artists" either.