• Hyperrealism@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    8 hours ago

    Counter argument: a lot of what we now think of as fine art, used to basically be porn. Old rich pervy men or the clergy having an ogle at young women, pretending to be fancy and holier than thou.

    If this was a photograph, plenty of people would consider it more NSFW.

    This one’s not too bad, but it’s arguably creepy when the women in these kinds of painting look younger. John William Waterhouse’s Hylas and the Nymphs, for example.

    I mean, it’s a bit weird that it’s ok to have Paul Gaugain nude’s on the wall. Beautiful and important paintings, but invariably they’re paintings of the underage girls he raped.

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      5 hours ago

      Did I say fine art, or art?

      And I know I said

      for corporate droning reasons

      So maybe you’re responding to the wrong comment? Doesn’t seem to relate to anything I was saying.