Art or Porn?

Posted in January 9, 2007 ¬ 18:41h.RobinNo Comments »

This is a question that seemed to come up in the 70s a lot more than it does nowadays, but I guess what with people putting great white sharks in formaldehyde and chopping up cows and putting them in formaldehyde, the art world has other things to think about when it comes down to what is art or not.
Anyway, I was looking though a comprehensive gallery of “erotic art” when a few things took my attention:
The subjects of the drawings displayed were almost all women. There is a certain cartoony air to the works, and most of the bodies represent a perfection even supermodels can barely attain – large breasts, or at any rate sagless breasts, flat stomachs, and tight asses. Hardly any fat, hardly any humanity to the pictures. I could be wrong, as some were obviously modelled by real people, but is this stuff really art? There are 52 x 16 pictures on this site to view, but I chose a few which kind of represent both sides of the arugment IMHO.





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