Art and naked children

[starrkers]

Is it art, a paedophile's wet dream or just a marketing ploy?
Does it even matter?


New storm over nude child picture

Child offended by furore

Protecting art for art's sake

 

[Stella_Omega]

It's art.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

It's art.

If the couple had chosen a different medium, say oil paint or bronze, there would have been no issue. What started off the wowsers in Canberra is the fact that it's a photograph. It's art and the parliamentarians can go suck an egg.

 

[TE999]

That cover looks like a painting rather than a photo unless the painting was done from a photo.

Oh yes, it's art.

 

[_Lynn_]

It's art.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

That cover looks like a painting rather than a photo unless the painting was done from a photo.

Oh yes, it's art.

It says in the article that the cover is a photo of a child posing in front of a painting. Personally, I can't figure out what the kafuffle is all about, other than political posturing. It's a sweet little picture of a sweet little girl who's just come in from playing in the sprinkler. How is that "pornography"?

 

[SlickTony]

I don't know much about art, but it looks like art to me.

Next target: the naked putti that appears in so much Italian Renaissance art!

 

[voluptuary_manque]

I don't know much about art, but it looks like art to me.

Next target: the naked putti that appears in so much Italian Renaissance art!

But only in Canberra. I don't think that photo would even raise eyebrows in Little Rock, AR or Ottawa. Certainly not in Washington or London.

 

[SlickTony]

I sent the link to my daughter to see what she thought of it.

 

[Liar]

Wait, that's a photo?

Then it's not only art, but also top notch handiwork.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Wait, that's a photo?

Then it's not only art, but also top notch handiwork.

Yes, exactly. A work of well-crafted art. I think the real objection may be that you can tell without any reservation what, and even who, it is. Now if the image were blasted into grotesque unreconisibility, no doubt the wowsers would be wanting it hung in the National Art museum. But this is post-Modernist, that is to say representational. Can't be 'avin' any o' that 'ere, ducks, people will think we ain't culchured.

 

[3113]

Art. What the Prime Minister thinks tells us a lot more about his mind than the picture. That picture is as innocent an image of a child as I've seen, nothing sexual or provocative about it. If it was a full grown naked woman or man posed the same way, I'd say the same thing.

I think the little girl with the peek-a-boo tush that once advertised suntan lotion was always far more sexually provocative.

 

[Roxanne Appleby]

It's art.

Yep.

So was this:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/ec/LedZeppelinHousesOfTheHolycover.jpg

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Art. What the Prime Minister thinks tells us a lot more about his mind than the picture. That picture is as innocent an image of a child as I've seen, nothing sexual or provocative about it. If it was a full grown naked woman or man posed the same way, I'd say the same thing.

I think the little girl with the peek-a-boo tush that once advertised suntan lotion was always far more sexually provocative.

I remember those from Coppertone. They were adorable.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Art. What the Prime Minister thinks tells us a lot more about his mind than the picture. That picture is as innocent an image of a child as I've seen, nothing sexual or provocative about it. If it was a full grown naked woman or man posed the same way, I'd say the same thing.

I think the little girl with the peek-a-boo tush that once advertised suntan lotion was always far more sexually provocative.

Yeah, I wonder what ol' Morris has bookmarked on his computer?

 

[jomar]

Art. What the Prime Minister thinks tells us a lot more about his mind than the picture. That picture is as innocent an image of a child as I've seen, nothing sexual or provocative about it. If it was a full grown naked woman or man posed the same way, I'd say the same thing.

I think the little girl with the peek-a-boo tush that once advertised suntan lotion was always far more sexually provocative.

And look how Jodie Foster turned out. It was the innocent Ivory Snow ad that led poor Marilyn Chambers to porn!

 

[TE999]

And look how she turned out!

Got a recent picture there buddy?

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Got a recent picture there buddy?

Uh-huh!

http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii177/1volupturary_manque/jodie_foster_5.jpg

 

[Roxanne Appleby]

that one's porn. probably violates lit's rules.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

that one's porn. probably violates lit's rules.

Dunno, how old was she when it was shot? And I disagree about the porn since nothing shows but her side. Heck, I've seen billboards that showed that much.

She doesn't even have a provocative expression on her face.

 

[3113]

She doesn't even have a provocative expression on her face.

I dunno, VM, that's pretty, er, "come hither and save me from the big bad wolf!"

 

[3113]

Here we go!

http://www.synthstuff.com/mt/archives/Coppertone_girl.jpg

Whadda think? Art?

 

[Boxlicker101]

that one's porn. probably violates lit's rules.

I wouldn't call it porn, except maybe the very softest variety, and I don't believe it violates the rules of Lit, regardless of her age.

What I did wonder about the news article is this: Why is the government subsidizing the magazine in the first place?

I don't think the picture on the first post is porn either.

ETA: I think the Coppertone ad is a drawing, not a photo. I wouldn't call it porn either, but I don't know about calling it art.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Box,
The government is subsidizing the mag because it's Australia. You know, like Canada where they haven't quite caught up to the current UK model and are still stuck in the early '60's.

 

[Misty_Morning]

I think it's art.

I think it's beautiful.

It's innocent.

Seeing this thread made me think of another artist. Hopefully one day Grace and I will be using her services:

http://www.jenniferloomis.com/portfolio2_family26.html