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I do understand the purpose of these rules, and I submit to them within the confines of the website eventhough there are parts of it that I don't agree with. Obviously we don't want Renderosity to become a haven for child molesters to turn our art into porn. Therefore it is unfortunate but probably necessary.

On the other hand, (having taken a quite few art history classes myself and eventually going for a degree) majority of the best known and most revolutionary artists have painted or sculpted the nude child subject. The subject of the "Christ Child" is almost always nude. Let's not even talk about the Classical Greek/Roman art.

To illustrate I'll site a few:
Lorenzo Ghiberti's Sacrifice of Isaac 1402, Donatello's David 1420, Andrea Mantegna's Camera degli Sposi (The first known illusionistic painting that paved way to the Baroque period), Leonardo da Vinci's Virgin of the Rocks 1485, Michaelangelo... O my gosh The Sistine Chapel, Raphael's Galatea, Titan (too many)... That's just a small portion of the Renaissance, I could go on and on all the way to the 20th century.

The point is that there is a difference between child nudity in art, and child porno. The link is on members' favorite artists... See how many Michaelangelos, Rockwells, and even Giger? had a nude child: mother with child. I guess the question now is: Is this limiting one's artistic vision? Not really, not all of our works have to be posted in Renderosity. Do what you want with your art but only post in Rosity the ones that are allowed. Indeed it's not a democracy but a privately owned community (But there are other 3d communities out there ya know). Unfortunately this may hold back 3D art from making breakthrough developments and a wide scape of art as Madmax said.

Message edited on: 03/22/2005 02:50