Art Goes On Trial

[Kylyssa]

The paintings are lovely.  Anyone who sees anything sexual about those images is perverted.  It's like saying Anne Geddes more recent work is pornographic.  Emotions are displayed by the entire body and a nude captures that expression more purely than a clothed version can in some instances.  

Clothing would detract from some of the elemental nature of a few of the paintings.  The beach paintings for instance, with the boys nude this could be any boys any time in history.  They are like an everyman as they are everyboy and represent youth itself.  The boy curled up like a bean was a beautiful expression of light and shadow and innocence.  The African boy was an emotional portrait of a man child on the verge of manhood.  These were just my impressions on a first glance.  None of the postures were suggestive or sexual in any way that I could see.

[Sophus]

Kylyssa, I love the way you read into his work. There was another person somewhere on the net who wrote some great thoughts about many of Otto's pieces that they were able to extract out of. I'll try to locate the website..... I totally agree about the "natural" element it adds.  :| Seems questionable, but that's the legal system for ya.[/quote]

That makes since. However I suppose because Lohmüller used models there would be a "victim" in the minds of these idiots.

There seems to be a bigger issue at work here...

What are you talking about?