adepressedmuffin asked:
Short answer:
It depends.
Long answer:
What is counts as art? What makes it valuable?
Malcom Budd posits that art prompts an emotional response in its viewer; gives them pleasure; grants them the satisfaction of appreciating a work well done; allows them to feel they’re communicating with the mind of the artist; and encourages them to develop an attitude towards the attitude that it asserts.
Anne Eaton suggests that expressing a morally dubious message undermines the value of a work of art because it requires its viewers to identify with ethical deformities, which distracts them from appreciating the works as art. Put simply, she says that to enjoy porn, you have to (at least temporarily) objectify people, and you can’t do this at the same time as contemplating it as art.
Both seem fair arguments. So that brings me back to “it depends.”
Art is subjective to the viewer. What I think is artistic others will not. I prefer porn photos to porn video because the image is detatched from the action, it exists in a bubble. It can be dramatic, evoke emotion, even display the body as the art itselfs (physique, tattoos, expression).
Art is subjective to the creator. Like my most recent tentipenis piece. I feel the result was art. I wanted to draw the viewer in with subject matter that titulated and then shocked. I wanted to experiment with lines, color, form, shape, and to try to use some of the vocabulary I’ve been learning studying Art Nouveau. But a viewer may still find it only pornogrpahic.
It depends. :p