An art museum in Austria has decided to create a "mini-scandal" to spur interest in its exhibition on erotic art of the 1900's. For its program featuring artwork by Schiele, Klimst, and others, the museum decided to give free admission to those who came either nude or nearly so.
Most of those who came to the museum decided on swimwear, but a few were more adventurous.
For more information on this strange story, click here.
Comment: There is a disconnect between the artist's view of life and that of the ordinary citizen. The artist see beauty in nakedness. The citizen avoids nakedness because it is deemed obscene and indecent.
Why is there this difference?
The reason, I suspect, is that the artist by his nature lives in an idealized world, and one in which beauty is the goal. The citizen lives in a far different realm, where mere survival is the everday objective. Whether it is financial survival or otherwise, the citizen is engrossed in the idea of life as a challenge, while for the artist, life is a celebration of beauty, or at least an ideal of the artist's own choosing.
The artist can define his own terms as long as it is in the province of his profession. The citizen, for better or worse, cannot.
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