Nudity as Art

[Blizzardry]

Yay! Mueck! He was one of the few artists you had to book to see and the queues were down the street. He used to make animatronics for Jim henson, but now he does brutally realistic sculptures that have been described as "psychic bombardment".

I actually think pornography is a subset of art. We make it, so it's an artificial artifact. Art for short. I'm not sure that even the great masters like Michaelangelo weren't a little turned on by all that "form appreciation"!

Pornography literally means sexual writings or pictures, but the Greek word Pornea (the sex bit) carries connotations of forced sex or bought sex.

So if you wanted a literal difference between art and pornography, you could say that art respects and pornography doesn't. But that's still too ambiguous and sweeping. There are producers of pornography that respect their stars, who really enjoy what they're doing, and there are artists who like to express the baser side of human emotions and actions, so, er... no, sorry, I still don't know...

[17th Angel]

Originally Posted by Blizzardry

There are producers of pornography that respect their stars, who really enjoy what they're doing, and there are artists who like to express the baser side of human emotions and actions.

Shame they don't respect, better acting... :\