So it really is more than a month since I posted on this blog. What on earth have I been doing with my time? It’s sad, but sometimes staying alive is a full time job on its’ own. Still, staying alive is pretty good.
I did a bit of investigation into attitudes to life drawing: comments on the Channel 4 website, responding to the televised life classes, were typical. Most posts were positive, with many people resolving to go to “proper” life classes – so in that respect the programmes were a success. The negative comments were predictable and concentrated on the issue of nudity on daytime television rather than anything to do with drawing: “boring”, “a ploy to increase ratings”, “disgusting; shouldn’t be allowed; my children might see it”. I can’t imagine that my parents would have objected, even in the 1950s (the Lord Chamberlain wouldn’t have permitted it in those days, of course). On a medical forum, where the comments were mostly favourable and certainly not outraged by Nudity on Television, I found a link to the Sun newspaper. The Sun asked for comments in its’ usual “cor phwoar” tone – and the comments almost all said “so what? No big deal”. I suppose Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells reads the Telegraph.
