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25 January 2017
Painting portraying of South Korea President Park Geun Hye in the nude sparks violence
A painting portraying South Korea's President Park Geun-Hye in the nude, is stuck on the floor after some conservative protesters damaged the artwork during an exhibition of painting parodies in the lobby of the National Assembly building in Seoul. AFP.
SEOUL: A nude painting of impeached South Korean president Park Geun Hye met a violent end at the country's parliament Tuesday, reports said, as supporters tore the work - which evokes Edouard Manet's Olympia - off the wall and destroyed it.
The image was part of an exhibition at the National Assembly featuring works by 22 artists lampooning Park and her confidante Choi Soon Sil, who is at the centre of the corruption scandal that led to Park's impeachment.
In Manet's 19th-century original, on display in the Musee d'Orsay in Paris, a naked white woman widely identified as a prostitute stares boldly out at the viewer while a black servant brings her flowers.
In Lee Koo Young's version, entitled "Dirty Sleep", Park's features are transposed onto a nude Asian woman who clasps a missile from the Terminal High Altitude Area Defence (Thaad) system to her bosom.
Park last year agreed with the US government to deploy the system in South Korea in response to the threat of missiles from the nuclear-armed North, infuriating China.
She is also depicted dozing as the Sewol ferry - which went down with the loss of nearly 400 lives three years ago - sinks outside her window.
Two puppies cavort on her thighs and Choi takes the place of the servant.
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A painting portraying South Korea's President Park Geun-Hye in the nude, is stuck on the floor after some conservative protesters damaged the artwork during an exhibition of painting parodies in the lobby of the National Assembly building in Seoul. - AFP
A group of some 20 Park supporters went on a rampage at the exhibition, South Korea's Yonhap news agency reported, wrecking the work.
A 63-year-old member of a rightist group was arrested and another was being sought by police, it said.
On its website the Musee d'Orsay describes Manet's painting as a "profanation of the idealised nude", adding that it "provoked a violent reaction".
Pyo Chang Won, the opposition lawmaker who organised the exhibition, has been referred to an ethics panel by his own Democratic Party over the picture, which provoked accusations of sexism and bad taste.
However, he defended the painting.
"It surely does not suit my taste," Yonhap quoted him as saying. "But I believe it is within the boundary of the freedom of arts." Painter Lee is one of nearly 10,000 artists on a "blacklist" drawn up by the conservative government for voicing criticism of Park. Those named are said to have been deprived of government subsidies and private investment, as well as being placed under state surveillance.
The Constitutional Court last month urged Park's defence counsel to clarify the mystery surrounding her seven-hour absence during the Sewol disaster.
Unconfirmed media reports have suggested a wide range of theories about her whereabouts, including a romantic liaison, participation in a shamanistic ritual, cosmetic surgery or a 90-minute hair styling.
Park flatly denied those allegations as groundless, asserting that she kept monitoring the tragedy and issuing orders to rescue any survivors. - AFP
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