Art v. censorship: where is the line? Something about blocking off Renaissance naughty parts just doesn't feel right, yet there's clearly a time when the line becomes blurry and the sacrilegious is not just accepted but expected.

To save you some googling, it’s Brujas yendo al Sabbath, translated as Witches going to their Sabbath (or The Departure of the Witches, or again, The Vision of Faust) by Spanish painter Luis Ricardo Falero (1878). Now here’s not only an uncensored version, but an anticensored one. You can see everything from all angles ; )

… reminds me of what the Internet once did to French painter William-Adolphe Bouguereau’s La Naissance de Vénus (The Birth of Venus, 1879 -- that's right, painted literally a year after Luis completed the above):

... or even to Michelangelo's world-renowned David (1501-4):

I posted this on Diaspora already, but what the heck, let's see if you guys like it here too. None of the ideas or even pieces here are mine (though I did touch up David myself a bit) but putting them together like this is where my contribution lays. I know I'm toeing the line here, but that's what art's all about right? Pushing boundaries? Right? Guys? You guys?

Yay, art! Enjoy : )

Blocking out the uncomfortable bits