{"id":256730,"date":"2018-02-01T14:02:52","date_gmt":"2018-02-01T19:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/?p=256730"},"modified":"2021-04-15T19:46:45","modified_gmt":"2021-04-15T23:46:45","slug":"gallery-removes-naked-nymphs-painting-to-prompt-conversation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/fa\/gallery-removes-naked-nymphs-painting-to-prompt-conversation\/","title":{"rendered":"Gallery removes naked nymphs painting to \u2018prompt conversation\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>RAEL\u2019S COMMENT:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>We are really back to middle age censorship\u2026 Museums doing such things should be boycotted.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Manchester Art Gallery takes down work by Waterhouse and asks public to post reactions<\/p>\n<p>It is a painting that shows pubescent, naked nymphs tempting a handsome young man to his doom, but is it an erotic Victorian fantasy too far, and one which, in the current climate, is unsuitable and offensive to modern audiences?<\/p>\n<p>Manchester Art Gallery has asked the question after removing John William Waterhouse\u2019s Hylas and the Nymphs, one of the most recognisable of the pre-Raphaelite paintings, from its walls. Postcards of the painting will be removed from sale in the shop.<\/p>\n<p>The painting was taken down on Friday and replaced with a notice explaining that a temporary space had been left \u201cto prompt conversations about how we display and interpret artworks in Manchester\u2019s public collection\u201d. Members of the public have stuck Post-it notes around the notice giving their reaction.<\/p>\n<p>Clare Gannaway, the gallery\u2019s curator of contemporary art, said the aim of the removal was to provoke debate, not to censor. \u201cIt wasn\u2019t about denying the existence of particular artworks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The work usually hangs in a room titled In Pursuit of Beauty, which contains late 19th century paintings showing lots of female flesh.<\/p>\n<p>Gannaway said the title was a bad one, as it was male artists pursuing women\u2019s bodies, and paintings that presented the female body as a passive decorative art form or a femme fatale.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor me personally, there is a sense of embarrassment that we haven\u2019t dealt with it sooner. Our attention has been elsewhere &#8230; we\u2019ve collectively forgotten to look at this space and think about it properly. We want to do something about it now because we have forgotten about it for so long.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2018\/jan\/31\/manchester-art-gallery-removes-waterhouse-naked-nymphs-painting-prompt-conversation?CMP=share_btn_fb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2018\/jan\/31\/manchester-art-gallery-removes-waterhouse-naked-nymphs-painting-prompt-conversation?CMP=share_btn_fb<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RAEL\u2019S COMMENT: We are really back to middle age censorship\u2026 Museums doing such things should be boycotted. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":327515,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-256730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/fa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/fa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/fa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/fa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/fa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/fa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256730\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/fa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/327515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/fa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/fa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/fa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}