Well, uh… there’s that…
Link in spoiler because it’s not safe for work or anybody for that matter…
Anonymous, my butt. You’re not fooling anybody, 'Pool!
Did Bea Arthur pose for the painting?
Now that’s art!
… in a fun house mirror?
… for El Greco?
I’ve seen things far worse than that.
Seems like a nice painting of a decent-looking woman, to me.
Although the words in the title of the o.p. are all from the English language and appear to have a grammatical construction, the semantic content appears to be null as they describe a condition that could not possibly exist in a rational world.
Of course, the same could be said of The Star Wars Holiday Special, which does, despite George Lucas’ best attemp at Orwellian destruction of history, does still exist, and incidentally also features Bea Arthur doing something unspeakable.
Stranger
Damn, I really hoped the thread title meant a nude by Bea Arthur
“God will get you for that, Currin!”
Betty White could be next. :eek:
I like it and I don’t understand the posts implying it’s hideous. She was an attractive woman. It’s a nice nude. It’s not like the breasts are painted in a particularly saggy or ugly way. Its it just funny to pretend she’s ugly because she was a Golden Girl?
Huh, what I was seeing was saggy, apparently artifically stretched due to it’s NSFWness. Here’s one that’s just ‘blocked’.
In my link Christies says the painting was “imagined” from a photo of her clothed.
Anybody else suddenly wanting silver dollar pancakes?
Well, yeah, she’s a bit saggy, but not all that much. And not at all wrinkly below her neck.
Finally, something to hang opposite of my Estelle Getty nude.
It’s based on a clothed photo so that’s just how the artist imagined her nude.
You people really need to see some more real bodies.
Here’s the site shapeofamother.com, breast section. (NSFW, two-click rule in effect).
It’s a non-pornographic site where real women post nude pictures of themselves after childbirth, to make peace with their changed bodies.
Amen.
She’s got the breasts of an older woman, but they aren’t hideously saggy. Given what i would assume is the average age of Dopers, I’d imagine most of us see something similar when we look in the mirror or at our female partners. Unless your only exposure to female human breast is barely legal porn or something, I would think this painting portrays a perfectly normal set of breasts.
I just found it odd that people were saying she’s doing something unspeakable, or that the picture shouldn’t be viewed by anyone (implying it’s horrific to look at). I just assumed the joke must be because she was on TV as a funny older woman or something. I don’t understand. I look at the painting, and it’s a nice nude of an attractive older woman.
Well, it makes more sense to me than this: http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=16291043&postcount=1