Kendra opened this issue on Dec 28, 2002 ยท 120 posts
Orio posted Sun, 29 December 2002 at 7:47 PM
I always put the nudity flag on ALL my pictures showing significant parts of a human body naked. I do that precisely to respect the options of those who are disturbed by human nudity, although I do not really understand such a thing, since I make (or better said I try to make) some ART, not pornography. I would not even PUBLISH a picture that I'd feel a child would be hurted to see. No, actually I would not even MAKE such a picture. It would go against what I feel. Having that said, I can't help being worried when I see that nudity is preventively banned from artistic expression. With the emphasis on "preventively". Most of the western art, of the greater western art, relies -I would say- heavily on the representation of what would fall under the so-called "nudity flag" here. Images that would certainly raise, and not lower, the educational level of young people. Such as Michelangelo's. Such as many Greek statues. And I could go on and on. If these masterpieces were preventively banned by a prudish society, we would not be able to know, and learn from, those artworks. The whole history of art would be different. And surely not for the better. Now, I would surely not dare to compare Renderosity galleries output with such masters. That comes without saying. Yet, it's not just the matter, but also the concept, that counts. The mentality behind all this. And it's precisely the concept and mentality that are worrying me. Much more than the occasional nude picture escaping the net of the nudity flag.