Would this 'public art' be approved today?

[DenitaLC]

Is this the only picture available on the `net? I like to get different views. Besides it is a little under exposed.

Rich: Here is the link to the artist's gallery, he has some amazing work.
http://www.soulinbronze.com/sculpture-gallery.html His name is Kevin Pettelle. ENJOY!

[Ken Palmer]

Hello nimrod. Yes, you are more than likely correct. It would draw some complaints and criticism and it would probably end up being removed. So sad!

Ken Palmer

It would probably get some that would complain about it, and because for what ever reason the vocal minority is listened to, it would be removed.

[nimrod]

Hello nimrod. Yes, you are more than likely correct. It would draw some complaints and criticism and it would probably end up being removed. So sad!

Ken Palmer

I do not like to sound so negative about it, but I hear so many stories of nude art in a public place being complained about then removed because of a few uptight people.

[sunnysmile_fl]

Sometimes that's alls it takes is for one or a few to complain about something such as an exibit that appears in a museum and city council people along with governmental legeslature go freaking out thinking that it's the whole world complaining so they react the way they do.

[David77]

Here is public, naked sculpture in St. Louis MO. in a very prominant location. It is called "Meeting of the Waters" but was originally supposed to be named "Marriage of the Waters", but some prudes thought it would sound too sexy, so they named it "Meeting of the Waters".

The sculpture fountain was installed in 1968, I believe. I have not heard nor seen in the paper that anyone objects now.
http://www.pond5.com/stock-footage/1...station-s.html
This is in reference to the meeting, near St. Louis, of the Missouri River and the Mississippi Rivers.
http://www.google.com/search?num=10&...iw=882&bih=518

[David77]

More promintenly display nude art in St.,Louis,
http://www.mobot.org/mobot/archives/image.asp?filename=PHO2007-


2444.tif&returnto=/mobot/archives/results.asp

http://oceansnsunsets.hubpages.com/h...tues-A-Gallery

In the sculpture called "Man, Woman, Child", all three are realistic nude figures of man and woman holding the child over their head. http://www.google.com/imgres?q=nude+...9,r:7,s:0,i:92

http://www.flickr.com/photos/8879749...n/photostream/
http://www.mobot.org/mobot/hort/sculpture/s10.html
http://www.flickr.com/photos/8879749...n/photostream/
http://www.google.com/imgres?q=nude+...:10,s:28,i:204

[nycapnude]

The collection of statues of nude dancers entitled "Dance", mostly children, by John Waddell, were first installed in the plaza of the Phoenix Civic Center ca. 1975. They were there for many years until they were relocated to the plaza of the Herberger Theater Center in Phoenix, still very much on public display. I took many photographs of these figures when they were still at the Civic Center and have been given to understand that the statues were a source of civic pride. Photos of these public works of art on display at the Herberger can be seen at http://www.flickr.com/photos/iaincar...7600389898034/.

[nimrod]

Thanks guys for showing that not everyone is so nude phobic that art, even nude art, can still be within the public eye without it causing harm. These stories need to be shared with the cities that think that they have to give in to the vocal minority.

[Arnabas]

Funny how people respond to "art".

In the local mall when I was growing up, there was a reproduction of Michelangelo's David. It went for a time without complaint, but eventually a "concerned group of parents" decided that it was inappropriate for this large naked man to be on display. The mall administration had someone come in a cover his genitals with a fig leaf. I am not sure what it was made of, but some time later when saner minds prevailed and they wanted to remove the leaf, they had to chip it off and inadvertently took his penis with it. After that, the whole thing was removed.

In another mall that I once visited years later, I was surprised by a water fountain that had life-sized statues of children playing in the water. One or two of the kids were in swimsuits, but most of them (male and female) were naked, their genitals fully visible. As surprised as I was to see it (especially considering it was children), I was more surprised that not a single person that I saw even blinked at the sight of it. I never heard of any complaint and as far as I know, it might still be there.

[ibrahim]

Funny how people respond to "art".

In the local mall when I was growing up, there was a reproduction of Michelangelo's David. It went for a time without complaint, but eventually a "concerned group of parents" decided that it was inappropriate for this large naked man to be on display. The mall administration had someone come in a cover his genitals with a fig leaf. I am not sure what it was made of, but some time later when saner minds prevailed and they wanted to remove the leaf, they had to chip it off and inadvertently took his penis with it. After that, the whole thing was removed.

In another mall that I once visited years later, I was surprised by a water fountain that had life-sized statues of children playing in the water. One or two of the kids were in swimsuits, but most of them (male and female) were naked, their genitals fully visible. As surprised as I was to see it (especially considering it was children), I was more surprised that not a single person that I saw even blinked at the sight of it. I never heard of any complaint and as far as I know, it might still be there.

What surprises me is how ready some people are to complain and how seriously their complaints are taken. At least Michelangelo's David is an internationally famous artwork so the complainers could have easily been told (in more diplomatic language than I'm doing here) that they are simply foolish.