"Street Artist Etienne Lavie Hijacks Billboards in Paris Replacing Ads with Classic Artworks"

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BernDog wrote:
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great idea but I did notice the only image people were shown looking it was the one showing two females topless.
Modern society.. sigh.

First we are talking about France, the French are not particularly prudish about these things and secondly I guess those looking were Japanese tourists.

Paul
Third, that wasn't exactly "high art" when it was first painted. Porn, then and now.
No, it wasn't "Porn", then or now. It was political, and evoked symbols that are obscure to us now.
Here is a good discussion:

http://lorenaybe.hubpages.com/hub/Two-women-in-a-tub

I think that you may be confusing this with the _many_ depictions of "Leda And the Swan", which on occasion, could get quite frisky indeed.

"If correctly viewed, everything is lewd.
I could tell you things about Peter Pan,
And the Wizard of Oz,
There's a dirty old man!"
-T. Lehrer

Eustace