Snow babe has to get dressed

I thought this was pretty funny:

Family forced to dress snow sculpture of naked woman in bikini after complaints to police

Now, I think that such a controversy should be evaluated on purely artistic grounds. The nude is a recognized artistic form. So did they do a good job?

Here's the snow sculpture:











Here's a smaller study by Robert Graham of the female torso he created for the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, still standing outside the LA Coliseum: the model was long jumper Jennifer Innis from Guyana.









I think the snow sculptors did great. Thus, I think this qualifies as art and isn't obscene (and furthermore, being in a medium that will melt, it is ephemeral, and therefore not something that would somehow offend the community for a long time). It's a very good nude -- even if she is a bit frigid.


As an aside, I've never been able to find a single picture of Jennifer Innis the person; though it's easy to find pictures of the model for the male torso, U.S. water polo player Terry Schroeder. For historical purposes, it would be a heck of a scoop to find the full Jennifer.