Sharp Pencils Only, please

€uroMeinke · 05-11-2010, 07:44 PM

What I'd like to see out of this is some clever explorations into this ban on images Muhammad. It would be great to see someone try to create an accurate picture based on contemporaneous accounts or descriptions found in the Koran (no clue if there are any). In contrast it would be great to see and artist create pictures of famous people (Albert Einstein, Marilyn Monroe, etc.) and call them Muhammad - not having any accounts of his actual appearance, is a title enough to offend. Or better yet, in homage to Magritte, a picture of a Pipe, with a caption, "This is not Mohammad" or maybe better yet, "This is not a picture of Mohammad."

Art could play an interesting philosophical and theological exploration, I could get behind that.

05-11-2010, 07:44 PM	#21
€uroMeinke L'Hédoniste Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: A.S.C.O.T. Posts: 8,671	What I'd like to see out of this is some clever explorations into this ban on images Muhammad. It would be great to see someone try to create an accurate picture based on contemporaneous accounts or descriptions found in the Koran (no clue if there are any). In contrast it would be great to see and artist create pictures of famous people (Albert Einstein, Marilyn Monroe, etc.) and call them Muhammad - not having any accounts of his actual appearance, is a title enough to offend. Or better yet, in homage to Magritte, a picture of a Pipe, with a caption, "This is not Mohammad" or maybe better yet, "This is not a picture of Mohammad." Art could play an interesting philosophical and theological exploration, I could get behind that. __________________ I would believe only in a God that knows how to Dance. Friedrich Nietzsche
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