I'm so annoyed.
One of the conferences I'm producing is called "Measuring the Muse: Arts Research from the Frontlines." Okay, so the image that I worked up for the poster is the following image (the chart lines are, of course, additions since it is about measuring trends, etc...you get the idea):
So at 7:45am this morning the head of the creative team at another very high-up arts alliance organization called me and said that "several of the ladies that work for me are offended by the image." *blink*
Offended? They work at a very respected arts organization. This is a 18th-century French painting. It hangs in a very well established art gallery. They're the MUSES. This is more clothed than they usually are!
I blame Janet Jackson.
If it hadn't been for that Super Bowl uproar then those "ladies" would never have had this issue. Seriously though, if THIS is offensive then I'm not at all sure what wouldn't be. By that definition they'd have to pull most of the pieces in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Even my mom, who is uber religious (Southern Baptist) thought that the painting was "beautiful and graceful." If she wasn't offended then no one is going to be.
I just hate that I had to spend the last two hours running around doing a quasi-sample test of all the women who working in my building to see if any of them acted at all offended. Not that that is really a scientific way to find out, but it is about audience... This poster isn't going into elementary school rooms! *sigh*
Sometimes I think that people are morons.
One of the conferences I'm producing is called "Measuring the Muse: Arts Research from the Frontlines." Okay, so the image that I worked up for the poster is the following image (the chart lines are, of course, additions since it is about measuring trends, etc...you get the idea):
So at 7:45am this morning the head of the creative team at another very high-up arts alliance organization called me and said that "several of the ladies that work for me are offended by the image." *blink*
Offended? They work at a very respected arts organization. This is a 18th-century French painting. It hangs in a very well established art gallery. They're the MUSES. This is more clothed than they usually are!
I blame Janet Jackson.
If it hadn't been for that Super Bowl uproar then those "ladies" would never have had this issue. Seriously though, if THIS is offensive then I'm not at all sure what wouldn't be. By that definition they'd have to pull most of the pieces in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Even my mom, who is uber religious (Southern Baptist) thought that the painting was "beautiful and graceful." If she wasn't offended then no one is going to be.
I just hate that I had to spend the last two hours running around doing a quasi-sample test of all the women who working in my building to see if any of them acted at all offended. Not that that is really a scientific way to find out, but it is about audience... This poster isn't going into elementary school rooms! *sigh*
Sometimes I think that people are morons.
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aspen:
i dont get the painting w/ all the dots.
cgilbe1:
howdy new friend. I see my radical "not offended by artistic nudity" view has won your sg friendship related heart.