he, as an artist does!!!
it is amazing that this is not self-evident!!
it is very important!!
he, as an artist has pictured that scene in a church for his own reasons. we might understand it or not, but nevertheless it is for him important. perhaps he was to communicate a message. perhaps we understand that message as he wanted us to do, or we get a different feeling out of it. but, this is the essence or art. there was a whole shock being created when an artist showed in greece, a painting with a cross and a penis next to each other. we have the right not to watch it, or to say this picture is not of my taste. but saying, why didnt you change the panis with a sasauge - who cares ? it is intervening in what an artist is suppossed to do. then we are not talking about art, but about instructed painting (in this case). he got an inspiration to present it like that, and that it is how he will present it. if we intervene in his inspiration, then we are in practise killing art.
when i was still in cyprus i watched a couple of times the show "mihani tou hronou", how the cencoring committee was working during the junta times. the similarity is at times striking
i did not see any american films having scenes deleted in any cyprus tv, just because they showed a murder taking place in a church. if the (not art but) "moral cinema committee" , considered such scenes as insulting the "cypriot morals" (sic), they should protect the cypriot public from all similar scenes. shouldnt they ?
