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Me KITZLEN
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Started On : 14-Mar-2007 at 09:37:36 AM, #Views : 6540
Topic Subject : Re: Re: A new topic has been added-Re: Re: A new topic has been added-Re: A new t... |
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There is a wonderful story of an old woman, in part of Britain, I know well, asked by a sculptor from London if he can make a study of her.
She refuses.
He takes it as shyness and covertly makes a sketch-model of her (fully clothed).
He returns to London, uses his study and then posts the 'sketch' to her. She takes a hammer to it ...and is even more convinced it is the work of the Devil when she discovers the armature inside the plaster.
Celtic art only allows/allowed the dead to be represented in art.
As far as I know the Roman church only allows saints to be represented in churches, and you have to be dead to be a saint (though I am shakey on Roman theology: "I am not now, etc.").
Representing the human form has a long and complex cultural history.
Some object to it all, some to the living. The face must not be seen by some, the breasts by others, the genitalia by others.
This is the Association of Lifecasters INTERNATIONAL and one cannot seek to impose one cultural code.
From my youth, I always recall, a group of women waiting (as I was) for a much delayed flight, breastfeeding in the departure lounge. Time had run long and necessity intervened. To my then naïve eyes such a sight would anyway have been a shock, but that they wore head scarve and veils only heightened the -to me- cultural anomaly.
Those who make "graven images" should not be too ready to throw stones, perhaps?
. . . . and no body has answered my artistic point as to whether 'those bits' "spoil the line" of a sculpture, or not . . . ;-)>
K.
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