never go to the art gallery without your tinfoil hat...

[Stella_Omega]

Bare boobie are very homosexual! Burn it!

Also, she has a radio in her head from the CIA. She's going to kill you.

 

[Boxlicker101]

Bare boobie are very homosexual! Burn it!

Also, she has a radio in her head from the CIA. She's going to kill you.

This is strictly a crazy woman, but I can see her point, although I don't agree with her. The painting is of two women who are standing close together and one of them has peeled her clothing down to show her boobies. The other is also semi-nude, and is displaying her boobies on what looks like a tray of fruit or flowers. I'm not complaining about it, but I can see how she might assume they are lesbians.

If the painting were of a man and a semi-nude woman, she probably would have complained about that too, but for a different reason.

 

[Stella_Omega]

This is strictly a crazy woman, but I can see her point, although I don't agree with her. The painting is of two women who are standing close together and have peeled their clothing down to show their boobies. I'm not complaining about it, but I can see how she might assume they are lesbians.

If the painting were of a man and a semi-nude woman, she probably would have complained about that too, but for a different reason.

Izzat right, Box?

 

[3113]

Bare boobie are very homosexual! Burn it!

I'm sorry, Stella, but I have to agree with Box on this one...

http://i.cdn.turner.com/dr/teg/tsg/release/sites/default/files/assets/twotahitianwomen.jpg
The one on the right is definitely checking out the breasts of the woman on the left (I know you think she's looking down at the basket of flowers, but why would she want to look at those?). And the one on the left is clearly pretending to ignore her. I think she's in a snit over a lovers quarrel they had the night before. I see a sultry make-up sex scene with the two lying on all those flowers under a palm tree.

I also see a plot bunny! Threesome with Gauguin!

 

[Stella_Omega]

Mmm, I like the sultry make-up scene...

 

[stephen55]

Gaugin's Two Tahitian Women was painted in 1899. He swindled some money from friends and backers to go to Tahiti and paint the idyllic, naturist, Edenistic playground, when he knew full well that in 1899 Tahiti was basically an unremarkable island with an international and westernized society.

'The island [and the realities of Gauguin's life there] are virtually unrecognisable in his representations, carefully calculated to intrigue the French audience,' said Mathews.

After two years, Gauguin returned to France, expecting a hero's welcome. But what should have been a triumphant return turned into a morass of misunderstanding and disappointment as his paintings remained unsold.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2001/oct/07/arts.highereducation

The people in France at the time knew that Gauguin was a fraud and so were his paintings. That said, I wish an ancestor of mine had picked this one up cheap at the time. At $80 million today, I'd gladly own it, even if it obviously isn't about two lesbians. It's simply Gauguin trying to con the people of France into thinking that the Tahiti of 1900 was the same as the Tahiti of the mid 1700's. It wasn't.

 

[ABSTRUSE]

as an art major I don't see it as homosexual...women are more comfortable with their bodies, even amongst other women...he painted tribal women who didn't see this as gay!
Our culture is programmed to be ashamed of our bodies!
Do your research people!!!

 

[Stella_Omega]

Of course it isn't a homosexual painting.

I am not a big fan of Gauguin's work. I think he was an illustrator, not an artist-- especially when you consider him next to Van Gogh, who really was an artist in all ways-- practical, romantic, technical, visionary. Every time I see their work together, Van Gogh's soul leaps out at me, where Guaguin's work is... smirky.

And he was such a miser with the paint.

 

[Boxlicker101]

Of course it isn't a homosexual painting.

I am not a big fan of Gauguin's work. I think he was an illustrator, not an artist-- especially when you consider him next to Van Gogh, who really was an artist in all ways-- practical, romantic, technical, visionary. Every time I see their work together, Van Gogh's soul leaps out at me, where Guaguin's work is... smirky.

And he was such a miser with the paint.

I don't know if the two women are supposed to be lesbians, and I am totally indifferent to their sexual orientation, one way or another. However, I can see why the crazy woman might think they are. That's all I have to say on the subject.

 

[R. Richard]

I think you people are overlooking the advantages. It's actually good that she has a radio in her head, because there's obvously nothing else in there.

[Suspect Susan Burns, who turned 53 Friday, also said that the Gauguin painting “Two Tahitian Women,” which is pictured at right and valued at $80 million, is “very homosexual. I was trying to remove it. I think it should be burned,” according to a criminal complaint filed in D.C. Superior Court. “I am from the American CIA and I have a radio in my head. I am going to kill you,” added Burns, who lives in Alexandria, Virginia.]

 

[Stella_Omega]

I think you people are overlooking the advantages. It's actually good that she has a radio in her head, because there's obvously nothing else in there.

[Suspect Susan Burns, who turned 53 Friday, also said that the Gauguin painting “Two Tahitian Women,” which is pictured at right and valued at $80 million, is “very homosexual. I was trying to remove it. I think it should be burned,” according to a criminal complaint filed in D.C. Superior Court. “I am from the American CIA and I have a radio in my head. I am going to kill you,” added Burns, who lives in Alexandria, Virginia.]

What other CIAs are there, we wonder?

... I met her sister last night, in the clinic waiting room. At least she wasn't violent, but she was 1) on her way to see her friend's band play and couldn't wait for the doctor any longer, 2) on her way to take her firefighter son to the airport and couldn't wait for the doctor any longer, 3) having a "Thyroid storm cause of Hashimoto's disease" and couldn't wait for the doctor any longer, 4) having a bipolar moment and couldn't wait for the doctor any longer.

 

[Tio_Narratore]

What other CIAs are there, we wonder?

... I met her sister last night, in the clinic waiting room. At least she wasn't violent, but she was 1) on her way to see her friend's band play and couldn't wait for the doctor any longer, 2) on her way to take her firefighter son to the airport and couldn't wait for the doctor any longer, 3) having a "Thyroid storm cause of Hashimoto's disease" and couldn't wait for the doctor any longer, 4) having a bipolar moment and couldn't wait for the doctor any longer.

Shhh! Stella; we're trying to keep the Canadian CIA secret. But you can tell them apart from the Americans; ours are the ones with quartz diode receivers in their heads.

 

[ABSTRUSE]

Of course it isn't a homosexual painting.

I am not a big fan of Gauguin's work. I think he was an illustrator, not an artist-- especially when you consider him next to Van Gogh, who really was an artist in all ways-- practical, romantic, technical, visionary. Every time I see their work together, Van Gogh's soul leaps out at me, where Guaguin's work is... smirky.

And he was such a miser with the paint.

I so agree!

 

[TE999]

Maybe it's me, but that mug shot of Susan on TSG is creepy; I mean the eyes follow you like in those paintings of Jesus.

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/buster/face-behind-name/susan-burns-no-fan-paul-gauguin-854307

 

[Handley_Page]

As I understand it, the women Gauguin was painting did not cover their breasts as a matter of course, I suspect the one on the right is looking at the fruit. . . .

[oh - all right; the complainer is absolutely nuts]

 

[vrosej10]

What other CIAs are there, we wonder?

... I met her sister last night, in the clinic waiting room. At least she wasn't violent, but she was 1) on her way to see her friend's band play and couldn't wait for the doctor any longer, 2) on her way to take her firefighter son to the airport and couldn't wait for the doctor any longer, 3) having a "Thyroid storm cause of Hashimoto's disease" and couldn't wait for the doctor any longer, 4) having a bipolar moment and couldn't wait for the doctor any longer.

I'm bipolar. I don't go around doing this shit to paintings. This women was clearly delusional whatever caused it. The painting is lovely and I think the homoerotic content is her own projection.

 

[TE999]

As I understand it, the women Gauguin was painting did not cover their breasts as a matter of course, I suspect the one on the right is looking at the fruit. . . .

[oh - all right; the complainer is absolutely nuts]

Suuuure she is. She's probably thinking "Nice melons, Tonga."