Just a question
Dec 12, 2019 06:28:56 #
MT Shooter wrote:
If a banana duct taped to a wall and sells for $120,000 as "art", then I guess pretty much anything goes.
My thoughts exactly. I think the only definition of 'ART' these days is how much can you sell it for. A great disservice to many fine amateurs out there.
Dec 12, 2019 06:55:38 #
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Dec 12, 2019 08:10:15 #
gvarner wrote:
Porn is porn. Trying to portray it as art is an attempt to legitimize it.
Depends on what you call porn. Actual sex sure, boobs probably not, genitalia some here would but not all...holding herself open probably yes but just not hidden genitalia I would say no.
Porn is in the eye of the beholder methinks.
Dec 12, 2019 10:41:16 #
Dec 12, 2019 11:33:19 #
StanMac
Loc: Tennessee
MT Shooter wrote:
If a banana duct taped to a wall and sells for $120,000 as "art", then I guess pretty much anything goes.
👍👍
Art, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder.
Stan
Dec 12, 2019 11:33:28 #
jaycoffman
Loc: San Diego
It's all in the definitions you use. Both pornography and junk art have no real definition.
Dec 12, 2019 12:03:24 #
trinhqthuan
Loc: gaithersburg
MT Shooter wrote:
If a banana duct taped to a wall and sells for $120,000 as "art", then I guess pretty much anything goes.
Dec 12, 2019 12:50:51 #
MrMophoto wrote:
I thought the humor was obvious, if I have to explain it's not funny anymore.
I really started to consider the "art" of porn ... now I get it! Funny.
Dec 12, 2019 14:03:45 #
Frayud
Loc: Bethesda,MD
Mapplethorp: His prints were works of art in themselves. Absolutely beautiful. An exhibition of his work was shut down by the yapping of congress here in Washington DC. I saw it in Florence (Italy) where it was displayed in a school that was evidently closed for summer vacation. People including those of student age wandered thru and left apparently unscathed.
Dec 12, 2019 14:38:40 #
MrMophoto wrote:
Can pornography be considered "junk art"?
Maplethorp?
Maplethorp?
?? Well, you can name it anything you want!
Dec 12, 2019 15:35:48 #
I saw the Maplethorpe exhibit in Hartford years ago and I have to say that he was an excellent photographer and that I enjoyed the exhibit very much. As far as a man's junk...what do you think of the nude statues by Rodin or Michaelangelo...do you consider those "pornography" ? I don't.
Dec 12, 2019 17:17:06 #
scooter1
Loc: Yacolt, Wa.
MT Shooter wrote:
If a banana duct taped to a wall and sells for $120,000 as "art", then I guess pretty much anything goes.
That one was crazy. Heard someone ate the banana also.
Dec 12, 2019 18:05:31 #
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