Nude painting that was banned for 60 years, now gives offence because the model holds a cigarette
You know, we’ve become so used to the Internet that we’ve forgotten that earlier generations actually had to leave their houses to go and buy or simply look at smutty pictures:
In 1947 a nude portrait was bought by a public gallery and more than 20,000 people queued to see it. However, council chiefs in Newport, South Wales, decided that the painting was scandalising their town and ordered that it be taken down. It went back on show yesterday more than 60 years after it was banned for being “too brazen” – only to receive complaints about it because she is smoking.
Anyway, much may change – like watching naked women in the comfort of your living-room – but your average council officers are as they always were: annoying little busy-bodies who think their religious, aesthetic and/or PC prejudices are the luscious rays of the sun, come shining out of their truly despicable arses.
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