Gallery removes naked nymphs painting to ’prompt conversation’ | Art and design | The Guardian
▻https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2018/jan/31/manchester-art-gallery-removes-waterhouse-naked-nymphs-painting-prompt-
ET ceci le jour où le prof qui avait publié l’"origine du monde" sur FB gagne son procès contre eux ! et il y a trois ans, le musée d’art contemporain d’Oslo avait simplement exposé deux toiles représentant des fellations sans que ça ne dérange beaucoup de monde.
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?
Manchester Art Gallery has asked the question after removing John William Waterhouse’s 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.
The painting was taken down on Friday and replaced with a notice explaining that a temporary space had been left “to prompt conversations about how we display and interpret artworks in Manchester’s public collection”. Members of the public have stuck Post-it notes around the notice giving their reaction.
