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| Tim "Pricasso" Patch |
Inslaget visar en helt klart intressant approach till måleri. Det visas upp i någon slags talangtävling i Tyskland, varför det mest talas tyska under inslaget. Dock är det viss uppblandning av engelska då konstnären Tim Patch kommer från Australien och uppenbarligen ännu inte talar särskilt god tyska.Kanske intressantare än själva konstnärstekniken är emellertid att folk i publiken blir så chockade. En stilla undran, är det inte så att ungefär hälften av befolkningen har snopp och den andra hälften har snipp och gissningsvis alla av oss har en rumpa? Samtidigt så är det ju glädjande med den uppskattning som konstnären får, bland annat stående ovationer samt konkret framgång i tävlingen med två av tre gillanden från juryn.
Min egentliga fråga kring det här lyder: Vad är det egentligen som är så kontroversiellt med nakenhet? För det handlar ju knappast om själva konstverken, eller hur? Är puritanism en rationell hållning?
hej, I've been using google-translate:) to answer your question - what is so controversal about nudity - would take a lot of time:)
SvaraRaderabut one thing I wanted to say - not all nudity is controversial, depends on the age, gender, context - in general, beautiful, young, and usually women's bodies - you can see them everywhere...so, I think a question should be why some nudity is accepted, and other not? why is some controversial and other common?
Google-translate, eh? Perhaps I should translate it for you instead? I mean, google's translation service usually is pretty "flexible", atleast to my knowledge. ;-)
SvaraRaderaAccording to what you say, I completely agree with you. Nudity is very context dependent. And your follow up question is fully relevant.
This apparently means that I have to define my own question more thoroughly. With my question I'm not addressing for example commercials, pornographic industry or the nudity beach.
I think that there's a clear cut issue with why the nudity of this Tim is so controversial. Or, similarly, why it would be controversial for someone to be nude on an ordinary beach. Or in a café.
Here in Sweden it's usually accepted albeit silently sneered or laughed upon. In Latvia some people threaten me to my life when I go swimming in the lake or river in the nude. It's absurd. Especially since the very same people sit there drinking their beer and smoking their cigarettes and talking about their low-life (too my perspective) subjects of e.g. cars, partying and how to get money.
Just the fact that someone threatens another person with violence just because there is (for instance) nudity is a true social absurdity. What is the lesser evil there? Or, rather, what is evil and what is beautiful? :-)
I can just say that in a situation like that I feel pretty self-assured, since I've got this black belt in karate. But I know many others don't have the same possibilities of self defence (which very well might just be an illusion anyway on my part).
But best of all would of course be if such situations wouldn't arise at all. And then I don't believe that the way forward is to forbid public nudity. Acceptance and tolerance would be good. Nudity doesn't make any direct harm in itself. The harm it makes comes from peoples internal prejudice, which of course has a strong connection with the external prejudice i.e. culture and the social values of society.
Perhaps I should add that I consider neither painting naked nor swimming naked to be sexual actions. Does anyone disagree?
SvaraRaderaHej,sorry for the silence:)
SvaraRaderaYes, google translate can result in awkward sentences, but I think I understood your main points:)
First, to answer your last question: no, I don't disagree:)
and I agree with your sentence:
"The harm it makes comes from peoples internal prejudice, which of course has a strong connection with the external prejudice i.e. culture and the social values of society."
and I think there's your answer to why people react the way they do...but why is society that way, why does it function the way it does and has all the prejudice - well, that's a complicated topic:)
I think that the boundaries of sexualities, and what was considered sexual, have changed during the years,
but there has always been the limit of what is accepted - in a way you could say that for some reasons it was important to have something that is forbidden, hidden, something that when shown, exposed - would trigger reactions, emotions, etc.
and behaviors that are just on the limit - are provocative,
and if there were no limits - there couldn't be this provocative behaviors...
so..hm..this is my string of thought which covers just a little part of this...it's a complicated subject...for me at least:))