>The painting was taken down on Friday and replaced with a notice explaining that a temporary space had been left “to prompt conversations about how we display and interpret artworks in Manchester’s public collection”. Members of the public have stuck Post-it notes around the notice giving their reaction.
>Clare Gannaway, the gallery’s curator of contemporary art, said the aim of the removal was to provoke debate, not to censor. “It wasn’t about denying the existence of particular artworks.”
>“For me personally, there is a sense of embarrassment that we haven’t dealt with it sooner. Our attention has been elsewhere ... we’ve collectively forgotten to look at this space and think about it properly. We want to do something about it now because we have forgotten about it for so long.”
>Gannaway said the debates around Time’s Up and #MeToo had fed into the decision.
>The removal itself is an artistic act and will feature in a solo show by the artist Sonia Boyce which opens in March. People can tweet their opinion using #MAGSoniaBoyce.
>The artist Michael Browne who attended the event where the painting was taken down said he was worried the past was being erased.
>Browne said he feared historical paintings were being jettisoned in favour of contemporary ones.
>“I know there are other works in the basement that are probably going to be deemed offensive for the same reasons and they are not going to see the light of day.”
>Waterhouse is one of the best-known pre-Raphaelites, whose Lady of Shalott is one of Tate Britain’s bestselling postcards, but some of his paintings leave people uncomfortable and he has been accused of being one step away from a pornographer.
>the self proclaimed antifascists/anitnazis are becoming more aggressive with their culture war >after art comes books Get ready boyos, soon they'll be fucking with public school's reading curriculum and school libraries. >Robinson Crusoe is problematic, read some Toni Morrison instead little 6th grader!
Jason Baker
Precisely >Took it down to prompt conversation. Do these asshats expect anyone to believe that shits. We have to stop pandering to the imbecilic and infantile. Enough is enough.
Logan Miller
That's some bullshit. That painting was a gift from the distant past warning modern men about the dangers of women.
Austin Clark
>the removal itself is an artistic act >preventing the public from seeing works of art is an artistic act >censorship is an artistic act
This is a worrying argument.
Tyler Reyes
>yfw this is too offensive for the modern "liberal"
Puritans weren't even offended by this painting
William Carter
>Clare Gannaway, the gallery’s curator of contemporary art women were a mistake
Luis Long
Jews hate white art because a lot of it it demonizes greed.
Jason Rivera
What will it take for these "progressives" to realise they have become social conservatives?
Hunter Cox
This is it. We're entering a dark age.
Jordan Jenkins
>soon they'll be fucking with public school's reading curriculum and school libraries. What fucking world do you live in? It's normal curriculum in the states for kids to learn about slavery at age 7 and the holocaust at 10. At 12 50% of kids still believe in Santa Claus.
Thomas Ortiz
a feminist cunt, who acts like a free prostitute on her free time, is trying to clean up women's image by removing a painting that accurately depicts what women are capable of
shocked
Jack Russell
It's only because they are beautiful women, not 600 pounds with dyed hair. They are jealous.
Christopher Perez
because the painting carries meaning, it actually depicts one of the characteristics of females
So they take down a tasteful, beautiful work of art while celebrating painting in their own menstrual blood. The times we live in.
Kayden Howard
Do you think?
Caleb Rogers
>tfw ywn get baited then eaten by naked 12yo swamp nymphs
Jeremiah Nguyen
I feel bad for these women. I really do.
Make no mistake, these people will die. These people will all die. It's either the right-wing state or Islam, and these people will die an horrible death. We only need to be patient.
Asher Adams
I'M FUCKING LIVID, IS THAT WHAT YOU WANTED TO HEAR? NOW PUT THE FUCKING PAINTING BACK ON THE WALL. LEAVE THE ART ALONE
Landon Gonzalez
Here’s her Twitter. What a surprise she’s a Corbyn-supporting degenerate cunt who probably mutters ‘Tory scum’ in her sleep.
Great, how about you all go into the special conference room and "prompt a conversation" about why there are shower heads but no faucets
Hudson Brooks
Is there even anybody alive today that could create something completely from their own mind? It seems like todays (((art))) students are jelly as fuck.
Charles Reed
>feminist scumbag
Eli Howard
These talentless cunts can't make it as artists (no one would buy their shit) so they move into curating and admin and turn the art world into shit instead.
Gavin Gonzalez
Internet Cossacks to the Femminst Facist!
O nigger, postmodern devil and damned devil's kith and kin, secretary to Lucifer himself. What the devil kind of knight are thou, that canst not slay a hedgehog with your naked arse? The devil shits, and your army eats. Thou shalt not, thou son of a whore, make subjects of Western sons; we have no fear of your army, by land and by sea we will battle with thee, fuck thy mother.
Thou Babylonian scullion, Macedonian wheelwright, brewer of Jerusalem, goat-fucker of Alexandria, swineherd of Greater and Lesser Egypt, pig of Armenia, Podolian thief, catamite of Tartary, hangman of Kamyanets, and fool of all the world and underworld, an idiot before God, grandson of the Serpent, and the crick in our dick. Pig's snout, mare's arse, slaughterhouse cur, unchristened brow, screw thine own mother!
So the Sup Forums declare, you lowlife. You won't even be herding pigs for the Us. Now we'll conclude, for we don't know the date and don't own a calendar; the moon's in the sky, the year with the Lord, the day's the same over here as it is over there; for this kiss our arse!
Social conservatism isn't the same as puritanical prudishness.
Landon Young
Here’s something she liked enough to retweet.
Thomas Morris
They are officially now more prudish than the Victorian English - let that sink in.
Leo Hernandez
It's neither male nor female until someone looks at the genitalia. It's a Schrodingers nog.
Luis Nguyen
>destroy history because I find it offensive generation
Please drop the nukes, Donny Boy.
Caleb Richardson
It depicts women in a degrading and sexual way that’s horribly misogynistic and offensive. Give me one reason besides “””culture””” why they should’ve kept it up. You conservatives are idiots.
Jacob Sanchez
Nice effort but you're trying too hard.
Brayden Foster
>tfw all classical art gets burned/destroyed in the far future because they are all "offensive"
Anthony Cruz
>depiction of Greek legend >Victorian fantasy >illustrates the nature of man's untempered lust as a risk to personal destruction >inappropriate depcition of lust
Or maybe they're just saying a depiction of a naked pubescent woman in any context is offensive, in which case, congratulations Millenials for being more prudish than THE FUCKING VICTORIANS.
Landon Bell
Bonfire of the Vanities 2.0
Leftists are the new Christians
Luis Gutierrez
nice
Henry Sanchez
We are entering into a Neo Puritanism now. Its painful to see stuff that just repeats from century to century.
Asher Richardson
It makes sense, something must fill the void.
Joseph Cooper
"This gallery exists in a world crossed by issues of gender, race, sexuality and class that affect us all" said the cunt.
Here the word "questions" is an euphemism for "struggles".
Talmudic neo-marxism is most definitely real.
Emily Hicks, Marcuse's student, reported by Lydia Sargent :
"In her essay, “Cultural Marxism: Nonsynchrony and Feminist Practice,” Emily Hicks argues that the marriage of Marxism and feminism leads to a narrow formulation of their respective oppressions and a narrow understanding of the dynamics of society.
Hicks states that a cultural Marxism is needed to reach and incorporate broader groups of people into a socialist movement: people who do not all have the same politics or the same political needs. Nor the same socialist vision. A Marxism that cannot reach more people with its theory and practice will become irrelevant.
With an analysis of current political and economic trends viewed through the concept of nonsynchrony, Hicks shows why it is that despite a huge dissatisfaction with capitalism among certain sectors of the population (gays, working women, blacks) there is not necessarily a huge outpouring of support for a radical alternative.
Hicks discusses why some women will make radical demands for childcare, birth control, [and] equal pay but will also feel a tremendous antagonism towards the women’s movement claiming forcefully that they are not “women’s libbers”.
Hicks argues strategically for the need to build broad non-exclusive organizations struggling for progressive change. "
Dylan Hernandez
OMG I saw a breast ! Why are only white breasts sexual?
Jaxson Long
>It's painful Better to accept the cyclic nature of things.
Luis Rogers
How did our civilization got to this point?
Cameron Robinson
>Finally! My years of writing passive-aggressive post-it notes has all been building up to this moment! Snark, don't fail me now!
Leo Nguyen
We seriously need to start physical violence against such people.
Chase Fisher
>the past was being erased But isn't that exactly what the Left wants? The absolute and complete erasure of any trace of the Patriarchal, Bourgeois, Racist, Sexist, Homophobic, Islamophobic, LGBTWTFBBQ unfriendly West?
Isn't it so that they may bring about the perfect progressive society free of bigotry and hate?
Lincoln Smith
Wait, leftists are offended by decadent, degenerate, sexually provocative things, now? When did they become authoritarian social conservatives?
Isaiah Perry
Hahaha just perfect, absolutely perfect.
You can only laugh at.
Bentley Collins
Progressives are weirdly puritanical. On the one hand paintings like that are inappropriate but on the other hand Gay Parades are just fine.
Jaxon Fisher
Of course it is.
Liam Williams
diversity is their strength but it is also their greatest weakness. eventually they will fracture.
>Hicks discusses why some women will make radical demands for childcare, birth control why hasn't a movement been started to push for "affirmative family planning"? you could start pushing for extra birth control and abortions to "underprivileged minorities" as a way to combat the undue burden that is having children. the left already views kids as a disadvantage so you could play that up and get white liberals to start donating to foundations to limit the black and hispanic birthrate. they already do it in africa. the best contraceptive is feminism and niggers love getting free shit. they won't be able to resist free condoms and abortions.
Mason Gonzalez
Cherchez la femme.
Whenever bs is like this happens, a woman will be at the bottom of it
Jackson Hernandez
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Kevin Flores
You can hardly say the idea for the painting was wholly original to be fair.
Daniel Murphy
Ackshually schroedingers nog exists in both states until observed, not neither.
>t. Doctorate in transsexual metaphysics
Hunter Rodriguez
I enjoy reading the letters pages of my local papers for the same reason. Infinitely amusing.
Michael Davis
ATTENTION seeking is what they are doing. She thinks, like many, that attention seeking is art. Who needs skill at painting when you can scream like a baby, right?
Kayden Diaz
>>The removal itself is an artistic act and will feature in a solo show by the artist Sonia Boyce which opens in March. People can tweet their opinion using #MAGSoniaBoyce.
>>“I know there are other works in the basement that are probably going to be deemed offensive for the same reasons and they are not going to see the light of day.”
get these fucking kikes hands off of this shit before the destroy it, what the fuck?
Gabriel Wood
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Dominic Phillips
> #MeToo had fed into the decision.
I wonder if she's aware that nymphs are dangerous creatures who seduce men to drown them. The women aren't the victims on the picture...
Isaiah Hill
I've been predicting for a long time we'll see the sacking of the UKs great galleries and museums in the coming decades.
Nolan Moore
Bonus points if it gets replaced by a graphic painting of a Muslim man raping 12 white British girls, and these same people fall over themselves to defend it
They can call it "Wednesday in Rotherham"
David Butler
Nothing ever changes. I hate these people.
Landon Foster
>I wonder if she's aware that nymphs are dangerous creatures who seduce men to drown them. The women aren't the victims on the picture... Sounds exactly like #MeToo.
Bentley Bell
God fucking damnit.
Brandon Sullivan
Feminists are petty, jealous, evil people.
Jackson Sullivan
they're probably insulted that the nymphs take the form of beautiful young women instead of "real" women.
Levi Taylor
I will happily acquire my pilots license when the time comes.
Wyatt Baker
That's just women. They despise eachother more than anything.
Camden Lee
Exactly. This piece of beautiful art is offensive, and this degenerate filth is not >GO FIGURE
Aiden Ross
The gallery curator, should be attacked and disfigured with acid.
Jaxon Powell
Someone should photoshop the girls into pepes and the guy into wojak.
>Join the swamp >No, I don't want to feel these feelings
Thomas Campbell
No she isn't aware. And that itself is mind boggling Someone should bombard these idiots with mockery just for that alone. THERE ARE NO WOMEN IN THAT PICTURE the cretinous bitch. Thanks BTW. Nicely pointed out.
Grayson Carter
That's because of their progressive stack mentality. Heterosexuality is the most prevalent and successful sexual orientation, therefore it is the oppressor. Homosexuality is unpopular and not on equal footing with heterosexuality, therefore it is being oppressed. So now they are fighting to manifest their god of equality, doing this means denigrating heterosexuality at any chance they get while supporting homosexuality in anything it does. They fight the culture war and until equality is achieved in their mind (which of course never happens so they just keep fighting) every act committed against the oppressor, no matter how heinous, is now justified and morally defensible, while at the same time every fault or flaw of the oppressed is either completely overlooked or attributed to be caused by the oppression they've suffered.
It's the same kind of thinking in every area. They do the same with blacks and with Islam too.
Xavier Green
If you're an "artist" in contemporary times, you can call any act "art" as a smoke screen for your real motives.
>Getting naked in front of an audience and sticking lasers in your arse is "art". >Doing rape porno is "art". >Censoring art you don't like is "art". >War is peace.
