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2008-05-23 Europe

Dutch town moves nudes after Muslims, others complain

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Posted by Fred 2008-05-23 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11130 views ] Top
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#1 We are against censorship but we are cowards"

Posted by Excalibur 2008-05-23 06:39|| 2008-05-23 06:39|| Front Page Top

#2 We are against censorship but there are people who have different opinions about nudity and nakedness and we wanted to give citizens a choice.

Well...some of them anyways.

Posted by tu3031 2008-05-23 08:42|| 2008-05-23 08:42|| Front Page Top

#3 The lights are going out in Europe.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2008-05-23 08:51|| 2008-05-23 08:51|| Front Page Top

#4 couldnt they just have put fig leaves on them?

Posted by liberalhawk 2008-05-23 09:05|| 2008-05-23 09:05|| Front Page Top

#5 Well, now I'm all offended I don't have nekkid chicks to look at.

Someone is gonna die.

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2008-05-23 09:22|| 2008-05-23 09:22|| Front Page Top

#6 Oh yeah, wait until the art from the Louvre is moved to qatar and subsequently rendered local-friendly. (Then wait until qatar discovers Pei's design there shows the location of the Ark and the chalice of Jesus and there are mass conversions to Judaism and Christianity - shhh).

The art of the Dutch is IMO among the most beautiful regional styles ever (though I am unfamiliar with this artist). Head and shoulders above mosaics in style, composition, and difficulty. It would be a poor sign indeed that if going into a Dutch art museum there were stickers of Islamic Rage Boy adhered to the naughty bits.

Posted by swksvolFF 2008-05-23 10:10|| 2008-05-23 10:10|| Front Page Top

I can see dumping them as a matter of taste or national pride - Rembrandt and Vermeer were Dutch, after all - but the turbans complaining is merely tiresome.

Posted by Fred 2008-05-23 11:24|| 2008-05-23 11:24|| Front Page Top

#8 philistine

the faces are "cubist" but prettied up in a way Picasso would never have lowered himself to. ther rest seems more gaugainish.

All very derivative.

Posted by liberalhawk 2008-05-23 11:33|| 2008-05-23 11:33|| Front Page Top

#9 The composition appears to be based on the classical Indian style. Note the triple curves in each figure (hip, knee, foot), the exaggerated proportions of bosom and hip to the waist, the dancerly movement. The palm tree has me puzzled, though, and the hand position looks Western to me.

No doubt the artist got good grades at art school. It's the kind of thing some would hang in the sitting room to demonstrate their progressive taste, and and then decorate the room to match.

Posted by trailing wife ">trailing wife 2008-05-23 12:03|| 2008-05-23 12:03|| Front Page Top

#10 LOL, TW. You rulez!

Posted by twobyfour 2008-05-23 12:13|| 2008-05-23 12:13|| Front Page Top

#11 "...then decorate the room to match."
TW you are so funny, if I tried to put even one triple curved, exaggerated bosomed girl in my living room 'to match,' Mrs. Ret would be doing things to me that would make Jeffrey Dahlmer cringe. (if he weren't dead)

Posted by USN, Ret. 2008-05-23 14:02|| 2008-05-23 14:02|| Front Page Top

#12 That'd look nice over the bar at some lezbo joint.

Posted by tu3031 2008-05-23 14:05|| 2008-05-23 14:05|| Front Page Top

#13 That's what I get for sleeping late, all the good snark is taken.

Posted by Redneck Jim">Redneck Jim 2008-05-23 15:41|| 2008-05-23 15:41|| Front Page Top

#14 Replace them with paintings of Muhamhead fornicating with pigs. Nah Dhimmitude prevents that right...

Posted by Icerigger">Icerigger 2008-05-23 17:00|| 2008-05-23 17:00|| Front Page Top

#15 Like you said, RJ. All the good snark was taken.

Posted by Pappy 2008-05-23 21:24|| 2008-05-23 21:24|| Front Page Top

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