Painted Porn O.K. For The Kids?

New York painter, Nick Weber, uses interesting subject matter for his pieces that’s causing a little controversy. Apparently, Mr. Weber had the brilliant idea to freeze-frame hard core porn scenes from movies he found on the web and paint them. Seems kinda like we’re moving backward to me, but that is beside the point.

The latest showing of his “art” happens to be in a gallery directly across the street from an elementary school; causing a big stir amongst concerned parents and a surge in greasy hand and nose-prints on the gallery’s front window.

The painting are very well done… but I just keep expecting “BUFFERING…” to pop up in the center of the picture.

Here’s more from www.artinfo.com :

The artist defended his paintings to the Herald Sun with the argument that children these days are frequently exposed "to much worse." For instance, "kids can watch people getting shot on TV," he told the Sun, explaining, "I was conflicted about how something that is bad could be beautiful." But "they are not photographs — they take about six months to paint." Parents, including LaToyia Carter, mother of a P.S. 42 first grader, aren't buying it. "I'm not ready to have this conversation with my six-year-old when he's walking to school and he sees pornographic pictures," she told CBS.

WARNING : The video shows the artist talking about his creations along with unblurred pictures of his paintings of pictures. Since porn pictures on the Internet are supposedly trash, but paintings of porn are supposedly art; I don’t know if re-posting pictures of the paintings makes them bad again or not… I’m so confused. If you're at work, you may just want to email a link to yourself and check it out later.

Orchard Windows Gallery presents: Nick Weber's Paintings from steven speliotis on Vimeo.

Source : http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/37741/porn-is-the-norm-incensed-les-parents-take-on-explicit-gallery-show-outside-an-elementary-school/

By : Stinkweed Pete