An Art Professor of the University of
California has been accused of making final year students strip naked in a
candlelit room in front of the whole class and himself before they can pass the
visual art course and graduate.
Infact, at the University of California, San
Diego, it is stated this naked final exam is a course requirement for a class
in the visual arts department.
Students are also made to perform gestures
that traces, outlines or speaks about their erotic selves.
A disgusted mother has spoken out against the
requirement on local ABC News, after her daughter told her of the final
exam.
The mother insists that the requirement is
not made clear at the start of the course,
and called it a 'perversion'.
Controversial professor of Art, Richardo Dominguez
She added that the exam - during which all
the students and the male professor strip naked in a candlelit classroom - made
her 'sick to her stomach'.
But professor Ricardo Dominguez insists that
he has not had any complaints in the 11 years he has taught the course.
'It's the standard canvas for performance art
and body art,' Dominguez told local ABC News affiliate KGTV.
'It is all very controlled... If they are
uncomfortable with this gesture, they should not take the class.'
According to the course description on the
faculty website, students 'use autobiography, dream, confession, fantasy or
other means to invent one's self in a new way, or to evoke the variety of
selves in our imagination'.
It continues: 'The course experiments with an d
explores the rich possibilities available to the contemporary artist in his or
her own persona'.
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