Flap Your Lips Friday
Posted by Michelle Moquin on July 11th, 2014
Good morning!
This is literally a Flap Your Lips Friday kind of write. Only in Paris!
From Artfido:
NSFW: Performance Artist Reenacts the Painting ‘The Origin Of The World’
Following on from our previous post where a performance artist was restrained, force-fed and injected with cosmetics in a high street shop window as part of a hard-hitting protest against animal testing (see HERE), another performance artist has gone to great lengths to make a point.
Background: if you’ve ever gazed into the beautiful void that is Gustav Courbet’s “The Origin of the World”, you’re probably familiar with just how provocative (and NSFW) the painting is.
As the title cleverly references, it is a portrait of the female genitalia, through which all human beings enter into life. Combining the romance of realism and the lustful voyeurism of erotic art, it’s, well, heavy stuff.
So, you can only imagine what would happen if someone – let’s say, a daring performance artist – attempted to reenact the racy anatomic still life from 1866… in front of an audience of museum patrons assembled at Paris’ Musée d’Orsay to see Courbet’s masterpiece face-to-face.
Une artiste expose son sexe sous «L’origine du… by quoi2news
According to Le Monde, the racy act took place on May 29 at the Musée d’Orsay’s Room 20. De Robertis entered the room in a gold sequin dress and proceeded to expose her own “L’Origine du monde” to a crowd of unsuspecting security guards and applauding gallery goers. The artist was eventually taken away by police and, as Artnet reports, the museum and two of its guards subsequently filed sexual exhibitionism complaints against the bold woman.
“This is a typical case of disrespecting the museum’s rules, whether for a performance or not,” the Musée d’Orsay’s administration said in a statement published in Artnet. “No request for authorization was filed with us. And even if it had been, it’s not certain we would have accepted it as that may have upset our visitors.”
De Robertis feels differently. “If you ignore the context, you could construe this performance as an act of exhibitionism, but what I did was not an impulsive act,” she explained to Luxemburger Wort. “There is a gap in art history, the absent point of view of the object of the gaze. In his realist painting, the painter shows the open legs, but the vagina remains closed. He does not reveal the hole, that is to say, the eye. I am not showing my vagina, but I am revealing what we do not see in the painting, the eye of the vagina, the black hole, this concealed eye, this chasm, which, beyond the flesh, refers to infinity, to the origin of the origin.”
To be fair, de Robertis claims she’s performed “Mirror of Origin” more than once in the Paris museum, without causing hysteria. And it’s not the first time that an avid student of art history has opted to demonstrate the sincerest form of flattery by imitating a famous work of art. Just last year, a 26-year-old known as Arthur G stripped down to his birthday suit in front of the Musée d’Orsay’s parade of male nudes, “Masculin/Masculin.”
As the Guerrilla Girls pointed out in the 1990s, less than 5% of the artists in the Modern Art section of New York’s Metropolitan Museum were women, but 85% of the nudes were female. Does it take a nude performance artist disrupting a casual day of museum revelry to make the world notice? Let us know your thoughts on de Robertis’ performance in the comments.
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July 11th, 2014 at 11:09 am
What the US media won’t air, the truth of what is going on in Israel. I am not for one side or the other. I just appreciate someone had the guts to say it like it is.
http://youtu.be/J5suQjx4em8
July 12th, 2014 at 6:07 am
Loved this article Michelle. I couldn’t get it yesterday hope this gets in today.
July 12th, 2014 at 6:12 am
The painting would be more authentic if the woman had be black. But then it wouldn’t have been hung in the Paris’ Musée d’Orsay.
White self aggrandizing never stops.
July 12th, 2014 at 6:25 am
World Citizen#1, the problem with your position is that Israel did not start bombing innocent people. No country can accept rocket fire upon it’s citizens.
Israel is forced to retaliate upon the civilians in Gaza because the cowardly Hamas purposely hide in playgrounds, civilian homes, hospitals and schools.
Just as the force innocent women and children to strap on IEDs and commit suicide to kill innocent people in israel and other places around the world they force the people of Gaza to be the target of Israel retaliation because they know that Israel will fire back to defend its citizens.
You know what I’ve said is true, but you hide behind the lie that you care about the deaths in Gaza when actually you want those deaths because you hope to gain something politically by them.
July 12th, 2014 at 6:28 am
World Citizen#1, I find it difficult to accept the logic that if someone tries to kill your citizens by bombing them and you retaliate the fact that your aim is better somehow makes you the villain.
July 12th, 2014 at 6:30 am
Dear Jewish lords and masters. Please command thy servant as to what help can I be and of what service can I be as a slave to you. We all know as your Honourable Rabbi Yossef Ovida stated that we non jews are created only to serve Jews.
Dear Jews as you can read from the all the comments below, we Hindus are in your favour and all our comments prove that we are ready to serve you in whatever way possible as slaves. Please bestow favour upon us and command us and never forsake us. I would like all Virat Hindus do donate money for saving Israel and if possible help in whatever way possible.
July 12th, 2014 at 6:33 am
World Citizen#1, do you really think people are happy that Muslims are being killed.The unfortunate thing is the moderate Muslims are inactivate and their silence is deafening.A rough estimate of people killed in Syria is about 160,000 and nobody knows how many have been killed in Iraq.
Its not a very pleasant record and now ISIS wants to come to India!! So where are they going to stop. A religion formed by the invasion of Mecca by Mohammad has laid the foundation for this violent Religion and the killings have never stopped.
As history will tell us how Islam spread an example is the Ottoman Empire.Yugoslavia was a Christian country till they were invaded by the Turks and forceful conversion took place. Bosnia is the by product of this.
The Jews are originally from the Middle East so why can’t they live peacefully in Israel .
July 12th, 2014 at 6:34 am
No one can be held responsible.. Let us pray to Almighty for peace between Israel and Palestine..
July 12th, 2014 at 6:34 am
All the media is blocked for philestine and at same time israel is free to use media
July 12th, 2014 at 6:35 am
If pakistan declare war on india, will india be waiting till they are hit by pakistan eill they start the preparing for war.. If india prepare itsenf against will it be called terrorism? So why philistine is called terrorist?
July 12th, 2014 at 6:38 am
The way I see it Israel has no choice. If they sit quietly and allow the bombings of their country to continue, Hamas will bomb them into extinction.
Now, the cowards who hide among their civilian population to do their dirty work that civilians are dying as it they care.
July 12th, 2014 at 6:39 am
Really very sad to see innocent people dying! God alone can only save!
July 12th, 2014 at 6:39 am
Good job Israel. This is the way to go.
July 12th, 2014 at 6:41 am
NO, Great job Israel, show the terrorists that you will respond forcefully every time they start killing or attempting to harm you people. That is the only answer they will respect.
July 12th, 2014 at 6:42 am
What is the defination of self defence? 3 teens killed by unlnown person against that israel parisoned more the 200 palistine people still not release.
Not a single rocket hit israel in area where popilation is but they are hitting all the possible places where innocent people are staying. Isreal killed 125 against no israeli killed still its called self defence.
July 12th, 2014 at 6:42 am
Hamas invited troubles by launching missiles against Israel in the first place, then why blame Israel for death and destruction.
July 12th, 2014 at 6:43 am
Time and again, I remember that famous quote of Hitler, “”I would have killed all the Jews of the world, but I kept some to show the world why I killed them”.
July 12th, 2014 at 6:44 am
Still Kerry has the cheek to say that Israel has the right to defend. Is Israel defending itself by killing innocent unarmed civilians ? USA swear to be guardian of law and order but where are they now?
They will only go to Ukrain , Libiya and Syria and spend trillions of dollars in war on Iraq by siting bogus reasons but no action in Gaza. Israel has made mockery of international law. They should be prosecuted for war crimes at ICC.
July 12th, 2014 at 6:44 am
Very sad to know about strikes and death of innocent people. The attacks on Israeli town is also a sad one. There must be some settlement and people should live with dignity.
July 12th, 2014 at 6:45 am
This is heartbreaking to watch. Few Power hungry men are fighting and thousands of innocent people are paying the price. During this holy month instead of celebrating people of Gaza are mourning.
July 12th, 2014 at 6:48 am
World Citizen #1, the world is not fooled by Hamas choosing the month of Ramzan to declare war against Israel. They are hoping Israel rockets kill many people in Gaza so they can profit from the propaganda like the link you posted here.
But the world is not fooled.
July 12th, 2014 at 6:49 am
Be it a holy month or anything , it doesnt matter these days in any muslim countries . They only believe in violence and spreading it in the name of Allah and Islam ….God save us from such religious bigots .
July 12th, 2014 at 6:50 am
After Muslims in Peshawar, Pakistan blew up a Church last year with 100 Xtian worshippers inside it, why has there been no Xtian terror in Pak?
July 12th, 2014 at 6:55 am
World Citizen#1, you know that in Gaza if you are civilian, you hate Hamas. But we are too afraid to say so publicly. Our food comes from Israel but what we give them in return is rockets — rockets that don’t even make little holes in the ground.
Hamas only cares about war. Most are made up of people who profit from waring against Israel. If there was peace they would be out of a job. But then they would turn their hatred towards the women and terrorize them with their interpretation of the Koran.
Most can’t read or write, they get their religion from power man imams who hide behind their cloths to send those they have duped to die by suicide.
July 12th, 2014 at 6:56 am
Muslims also decimated native Hindu populations in Kashmir and Pakistan. Should we do the same to Muslims in India?
July 12th, 2014 at 6:57 am
It’s the question of their (Israel) safety, self defense and existence.
July 12th, 2014 at 6:58 am
Photos are very very disturbing. ………………. God save these poor little babies and women.! RIP . For the shake of religion people are fighting like beast forgeting that there is one humanistic approach. Other countries are simply watching as mute spectator. When we are taking no action on Iraq then what we will do in Palestine?
July 12th, 2014 at 6:59 am
Hamas should stop attacking Israel. Hamas is no match for Israel and should resist from provoking Israel . As in all cases, it is the ordinary people who gets killed or targeted . Where is the UN force ?
July 12th, 2014 at 7:00 am
Mathews#26, You mean their illegal existence in their illegal entity called Israel in the land of Palestine conceived by some drunken warlords and now supported by America?
July 12th, 2014 at 7:02 am
Bal#28, Hamas is a power hungry group at their self destructive best.
July 12th, 2014 at 7:03 am
Bal#28, The UN force will come only after Hamas runs of out rockets. The same routine starts again after their stocks are replenished..
July 12th, 2014 at 7:05 am
I was watching Youtube and came across a video interview of author Tom Holland of UK. He said mohamed is an imaginary figure and most likely creation of Muslim kings who wanted to justify their killing and invasions in name of prophet and allah. Muslims in UK banned his TV show as they were angry at Tom Holland who is a known and well-established historian
July 12th, 2014 at 7:06 am
Listed here are Koranic verses which are the foundation for these beliefs (prejudice).————-
The Quran, virtually on every page, is a manifesto for religious intolerance. – Sam Harris——————
It is these beliefs that fuels organizations as Hamas, the Islamic Republic of Iran———–
The Islamic Jihad movement. Take them seriously as they take these teachings seriously.
This is no joke.
If you doubt the accuracy …just copy and paste the subsection eg Qur’an 4:160 to your web brower.
Qur’an 9:29-Fight against Christians and Jews ”until they pay the tribute readily, being brought low.”
Qur’an 4:91- If the unbelievers do not offer you peace, kill them wherever you find them. Against such you are given clear warrant.
. Qur’an 9:7-9-Don’t make treaties with non-Muslims. They are all evildoers and should not be trusted.
Qur’an 9:12-14-Fight the disbelievers! Allah is on your side; he will give you victory.
. Qur’an 9:5 Kill the nonbelievers wherever you find them.
Qur’an 2:191-2-Kill disbelievers wherever you find them. If they attack you, then kill them. Such is the reward of disbelievers.
Qur’an (5:51) – ”O you who believe! do not take the Jews and the Christians for friends; they are friends of each other; and whoever amongst you takes them for a friend, then surely he is one of them; surely Allah does not guide the unjust people.”
Qur’an (2:65-66) Christians and Jews must believe what Allah has revealed to Muhammad or Allah will disfigure their faces or turn them into apes, as he did the Sabbath-breakers.
Qur’an (4:48, 4:116)-Those who ascribe a partner to Allah (like Christians do with Jesus and the Holy Spirit) will not be forgiven. They have “invented a tremendous sin.”
Qur’an (4:51)-Jews and Christians believe in idols and false deities, yet they claim to be more rightly guided than Muslims.
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Qur’an (5:51) Don’t take Jews or Christians for friends. If you do, then Allah will consider you to be one of them.
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Qur’an (5:80) – “You will see many of them befriending those who disbelieve; certainly evil is that which their souls have sent before for them, that Allah became displeased with them and in chastisement shall they abide.” Those Muslims who befriend unbelievers will abide in hell.———–” koran is hate manual against non-believers especially jews and idol worshipers.
July 12th, 2014 at 7:08 am
World Citizen#1, your link does not post the images of places in Israel bought down by Hamaz’s rockets…? Just showing one side of the picture is not the right way of journalism.
July 12th, 2014 at 7:13 am
PE#29, Your lack of history is appalling, or deliberate. The area you are talking about has changed over the centuries many time. The Palestinians have no more a legitimate claim to it that the jews do.
They fact that the Palestinians allow splinter fringe groups like Hamas to keep the hate going is what keeps them in their position. If they learn to live in peace and accept Israel right to exist, then talks can proceed.
Making a ridiculous ancestral claim to lands which Israel is now occupying is self defeating.
July 12th, 2014 at 7:14 am
Viru#34, You pathetic Saffrons, never tired of licking your new found Zionist masters, are you?
July 12th, 2014 at 7:15 am
Saj#32, I’m not surprise for such an imagination will entertain you when your own imagination goes beyond 330 millions of deities!!!
July 12th, 2014 at 7:19 am
World Citizen#1, I can’t believe you expect the world to accept that just because Israel has defenses like the Iron Dome to intercept Hamas’s rockets and prevent the deaths of their civilians, Israel doesn’t have the right to defend itself as vigorously as they can.
Your logic is as twisted as those that use their civilian population’s schools, homes and playgrounds as shelter to fire their rockets from.
July 12th, 2014 at 7:20 am
Bez they are well EDUCATED with 100% “LITERACY RATE” not “MADARASA EDUCATED” they not “ALLOWED ROCKET TO HIT THERE LAND” with the help of “IRON DOM” technology, they have population less then 2 crore but they can “DARE ALL MUSLIM IN THE WORLD WHO IS HELPLESS IN FROM OF ISRAEL”
July 12th, 2014 at 7:22 am
Ask same question to terrorist manual inspired terrorist.u maslim can never never coexist with any religion.death and hell to u Muslim.
July 12th, 2014 at 7:37 am
These two sisters in Pakistan laugh as they enjoy a dance in the
rain about this time last year. (They were quickly executed,
along with their mother, for bringing ‘dishonor’ to the family).
Ramadan Bombathon
2014 Scorecard
Because, if you think all religions are the same, then you haven’t been paying attention.
Day 14
In the name of The Religion of Peace In the name of ANY Other Religion By Way of Anti-Muslim Hate Crimes.
Terror Attacks by muslims against others 100 Terror Attacks by others against muslins 0
2*
Suicide Bombings by muslims 10 Suicide attacks against muslims by others 0.
Dead Bodies produced by those terrorist attacks by muslims 624 –
Dead Bodies produced by those terrorist attacks against muslims 0
Wounded produced by those terrorist attacks by muslims 656
Wounded produced by terrorist attacks against muslims 0
*2014.07.02 – An Arab teen was murdered by Israeli Jews in response to the kidnap and murder of three Jewish teens.
Islam’s Latest Contributions to Peace “Mohammed is God’s apostle. Those who follow him are harsh to the unbelievers but merciful to one another” Quran 48:29
2014.07.10 (Karachi, Pakistan) – A shopkeeper is murdered by Sunnis for being Shia.
2014.07.10 (Kohsan, Afghanistan) – The Taliban murder six employees of a de-mining company.
2014.07.09 (Lamu, Kenya) – Two Christians are killed in their own church by Muslim radicals.
2014.07.09 (Mansuriyah, Iraq) – Nine soldiers are killed in an ambush by Islamic State militants.
2014.07.09 (Yala, Thailand) – Two Buddhist nursing students are gunned down at a market by suspected Muslim terrorists.
2014.07.09 (Kandahar, Afghanistan) – A woman is among nine killed during a massive Fedayeen suicide assault.
You people and your religious cult are insane. When you are not killing, maiming and murdering innocents who do not practice that cult religion, you turn to your women who you force to remain in your male pedophile cult and kill, maim, torture and murder them.
Now Mr. World Citizen#1, you come to this blog with your bullshit link showing some russian actor proclaiming anger because Israel does what any civilized country would do defend its people against insane attacks by Hamas.
Did you expect to find brain dead people here? Go practice your deceit elsewhere. I noticed you didn’t return unless you have chosen the initials PE to deceive us into believing you have a minuscule of support for your bullshit attempt to dupe us.
July 12th, 2014 at 7:39 am
Jews are not killing palestinians. They kill hamas and hezbollah terrorists who have threatened the very existence of Israel and its people. They are not cowards. They know very well how to deal with their enemies.
Since thousand years muslim kingdoms in middle east have butchered innocent jews men,women and children. why ?? just becoz they dont accept ur cult and want to maintain their own identity ???
among all abrahamic religions–judaism, christianity and islam…judaism is the oldest…the religion that came from the only legitimate child of abraham–isaac. All Jew haters —any answer ???
July 12th, 2014 at 7:48 am
Well I see she is one sided still, I stopped watching her news update now I know why.Hamas is using their own people as shields.read your Bibles and research on your own whats really going on dont rely on people like this woman or anyone else. So you can have a clear understanding. Peace
July 12th, 2014 at 7:50 am
she got it all wrong.
yes, there is extreme devastation in gaza right now and yes it is terribly sad.
what she doesn’t realize is that it’s not israel’s fault. it’s their elected government/terrosrist org hamas’s fault.
if right now hamas stopped launching missiles at israeli cities, the war would be over, period.
July 12th, 2014 at 7:50 am
The same biased crap can be spewed against Russia; just replace Israel with Russia, and Palestine with Chechnya. As I support Israel cleaning house in Gaza, I support Russia cleaning house in Chechnya.
July 12th, 2014 at 7:55 am
I came here to respond to your article Michelle, but the tenor is all about Israel firing rockets into the Gaza strip. I wonder why “World Citizen” feels that it is okay for rockets to be fired into Israel, but not okay for Israel to retaliate.
I would like to hear your explanation “World Citizen.” You started this dialogue thread. Where are you now? Could it be, you are absent because it didn’t go the way you intended?
July 12th, 2014 at 7:58 am
I have to agree with you Sonja. If the aim was to portray the mother of humanity, it should have been a Black woman’s pussy that was displayed. I mean we all can trace our ancestry back to one.
July 12th, 2014 at 8:07 am
Al, I saw your post and some of the comments to them on Friday’s blog. You have summed up the facts succinctly. If those that want to make a difference take your advice, we will hand the republicans a colossal defeat.
July 12th, 2014 at 8:16 am
This exchange between a woman, Amber and a Muslim, Ryan says why we can not hope for sanity from members of that pedophile cult.
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Amber
God bless israel. Only civilized nation in the middle east surrounded by backwards Muslim savages. Keep it up israel, we Americans support you, we dont like those muslim terrorist they always ruin everything. Look at Europe.
Ryan
+Amber you dumb whore just looking at that face makes me wanna puke and punch it, dumb typical blonde bitch who has no sense of right and wrong, i would really like to see you say that to a muslims face and then see if that face of yours stays in one place WHORE
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July 12th, 2014 at 8:22 am
It’s funny how some in world have no idea what Hamas is and still think they are poor people who just want peace.. that is the exact opposite.
Israel Just wants peace and quite for our people, while hamas want to kill every jew possible. They are animals who have no respect for human lives. They use their kids and women as human shields.
After Hamas fire over 500 missiles into our whole country day in day out, israel tries to find the terrorists and destroy them and their houses. But what the dirty little shit terrorists do is go to some poor family and shoot missles from their house. So when israel attacks the house some innocent people die. this is war.
You can only blame the arab animals from Gaza who started it all. You all know nothing about Israel. Free Palestine? No, Free Palestine from Hamas and then maybe there will be peace. I’m Done. Fuck this shit.
July 12th, 2014 at 8:26 am
Noam#50, I really hope Hamas personally fires a rocket between your mother’s legs. You filthy bastard. It would be so nice to hear you come back on here n tell us should that ever happen.
Thank you, you Jew mother fucker.