Thai Rath has reported that “breast-painting Picasso” Duangjai Jansaunoi was hired by producers of Thailand’s Got Talent to pull her risque stunt on the show.
Duangjai, 23, poured paint over her breasts and smeared them on a canvas to create a crude painting as a contestant on last Sunday’s episode.
A friend of Duangjai said that the producers had approached the woman to propose the act and paid her THB10,000 for performing it. Panya Nirunkul, President of Workpoint Entertainment Plc which produces Talent, admitted that they had approached her but denied that they had paid her, the Bangkok Post reported.
The episode has elicited well-documented outrage from the Ministry of Culture, which is investigating the whole sordid affair.
Pol Maj Gen Saroj Promcharoen, deputy commander of the Metropolitan Police, said police would wait for a verdict from the Culture Ministry on whether the show breached public obscenity laws before pressing charges.
We believe that many have missed the most glaring outrage in this entire issue: The fact that Duangjai was passed to the next round despite her painting being of such poor quality!
The show is called Thailand’s Got Talent, right, not Thailand’s Got Tits? We have seen elephants paint better.
This fact was not lost on members of Thailand’s art community.
“The point is: Is this a good quality painting? No, it is not. What’s more important is that the woman didn’t have a real idea or reason to back up her show. There’s no context, no conceptual thinking behind it,” curator Gridthiya Gaweewong told the Post
Amateur artist Kannika Soonthornyankit put it more bluntly, “This is not art, nor creativity. It’s a waste.”
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