I meant to post this earlier...not only did I see this on Vag's link a dink a week back, but I also saw it on Reuters that day too. This really did have me fuming, although I was not surprised in the least, that the worst has finally happened.
The most horrendous thing, is that it is an art museum that did this, and a European museum, at that. (Okay, I take it back. I was surprised the museum wasn't in America, that's all) But these are the people that everyone trusts with fine art. Artists trust them with their fine art, we trust them to take care of the things that are precious to our collective history. This includes art, and it always has.
One can never understand the history of something without knowing its art. It is sociologically, very important to understanding the time. Artists have historically been important in political movements as well. History and art history parallel each other, and they always have. They should form a partnership, if nothing else. The point is, this museum is altering history. They think they have the right to alter history. More than that, they feel they have the right to alter the vision of an artist. And that they somehow know better than the artist did, hundreds of years before they were even born.
This museum, thinks it has the right: Thorvaldsen Museum in Copenhagen.
The gall of these people! I'm not even going to get into the wrongness of the weight issue, because I honestly think that you can see for yourselves, which exactly is the more beautiful image of a woman. Click the link, take a look.
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as someone said in the comments section of the article, they can eat a dick.
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