In the 1890s there was a naked struggle over a White House painting
You can be certain that helped to sell a few copies, even if what the paper printed was a puny two-column, black-and-white engraving that made it hard to see what the fuss was about.George Frederic WattsWell,nudity haters. The two allegorical figures in Watts’s painting — a winged male angel who is leading a pale, auburn-haired female up a rocky path — are unclothed.
The group most opposed to “Love and Life” was the Women’s Christian Temperance Union, which was against more than just intoxicating spirits. Critics were aghast at the debate. The Washington Post’s arts columnist wrote: “There are two classes of people who object altogether to the nude in art, no matter how the subject may be handled. The one class, and I am happy to say the larger class, may be generally recognized as the artistically ignorant; the other, as the innately vulgar.”Vulgar people, wrote the columnist, “can manufacture a coarse joke out of divine materials, and see the devil in every finger print of God.
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