Thursday, July 2, 2009

Day 1000 - Sex art, not porn

Helmut Newton

Helmut Newton

Helmut Newton

Hokusai - The Dream Of The Fisherman's Wife

Gustave Courbet - The Origin Of The World

Toulouse-Lautrec

Toulouse-Lautrec

Utamaro Shunga

Utamaro Shunga

Hokusai Shunga

Ancient Greek Pottery

Egon Schiele

Edouard Manet

Gustave Courbet - The Sleep

There is no such thing as good/bad porn. Art history shows that one can make art exploring human sexuality. Pornography is only the failed attempt to make art from sex. Porn is the mediocre, kitsch and gratuitous depiction of human sexuality. A porn image is one that fails to tell more than it shows, not being able to successfully cross the anatomical border of pure flesh.

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