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

[Silencio]

Looks like a Fragonard at Abbesses station.

(Aside: when in Paris, don't take the stairs up from Abbesses unless you want a serious cardio workout. However, the mosaics are really pretty.)

[BernDog]

voodoopenguin wrote:
[quote=Ombligo]
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.

[eustacetilley]

BernDog wrote:
[quote=voodoopenguin]
[quote=Ombligo]
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

[BernDog]

eustacetilley wrote:
[quote=BernDog]
[quote=voodoopenguin]
[quote=Ombligo]
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
I stand corrected.

But, many classic paintings of nudes were created more for titillation than for anything else. I just think it's funny how some people can be so prudish about modern sexuality, but then elevate something that was basically porn hundreds of years ago.

[ka jowct]

I'm guessing that one of them is an Ingres portrait; for some reason, Cranach has popped into my mind for the one of the two female figures that has a couple of us in a mild tizzy, but that's probably wrong.

[eustacetilley]

ka jowct wrote:
I'm guessing that one of them is an Ingres portrait; for some reason, Cranach has popped into my mind for the one of the two female figures that has a couple of us in a mild tizzy.

Martin Luther does not approve.

Eustace

[jaine]

Great to see! :goodone: Billboards will play a great role ahead. Creative billboards attracts people easily and they are going to rule in the future.

[eustacetilley]

Hey Jaine, you are a pain.
You're spamming here is quite galling.
But what is worse, and the point of this verse,
Your English usage is appalling.


Eustace