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Decorah mural creates controversy

September 3, 1999 By admin

The work of an artist from northeastern Iowa known globally for hiscolorful, expressionist paintings is being labeled “pornographic” in hishometown. Brian Andreas painted a mural on an outside wall ofa Decorah bookstore, sparking protests from a handful of residents:Elizabeth Skeate owns Skeate Books, where the mural depicts amulti-colored girl walking across a tightrope — a metaphor for life. Whilebeauty may be in the eye of the beholder, Skeate says there’s nothingscandalous about the expressionist-style two-story painting.Some critics charge the painting is at least a traffic hazard, if notpornographic. The girl is painted in a free-form style that depicts no bodyparts, other than her limbs and head. Skeate says it’s a lot of outcry overnothing. Ironically, Andreas has been commissioned to do four more muralsin Decorah.

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