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Originally Posted by Howard Beale
This painting is creating controversy.
My 2 cents: If an artist has managed to get a painting onto a wall at the Met then leave it there w/o some stupid plaque.
From the article you linked:
'But Christian Viveros-Fauné, a New York-based Chilean art critic, went further, writing in The Village Voice in the same year that Balthus was “painting’s most memorable crotch-shot man”.
In a piece entitled "Ol' Dirty Master," he wrote: “The original upskirt artist, Balthus devoted a career to obsessively depicting female pubescent sexuality. Today, there is no question that Balthus was a paedophile.”'
I can understand the backlash, given the mores of 2017. Deference to 'managing to get a painting onto a wall at the Met' sounds like a blind appeal to the authority of that institution, if you ask me.
Some great images in this thread, btw.