erotisism and pornography are the children of of imagination. art isn't art because someone painted it, a poem isn't poetry because it has words that are used in a certain way. art is and always will be what we percieve it to be. often we are told by academia and critics what to accept or dismiss as art but we as individuals overide any social or educational summerisation of what art, erotisism or pornography are. we as the individual often dismiss the socio and cultural iplications and tolerences of what is and isn't art. it isn't beauty that is in the eye of the beholder...it's art. one man's fodder for masterbation is often another man's depiction of form and function. is  the mona  lisa art. many say yes.....but is it or is it some tart with a silly smile..oh yes i can see how it's an amalgam of female and male. i can see how the landscape has been used to good effect but is it art? of course it is..to me at least but to some it's utter crap. thats not an inegmatic smile..she looks like she's got heamaroids they may say...missing the fact that heamaroids could indeed cause someone to have an inegmatic smile lol.  i personaly think renee macintosh's work re his furniture and  interior design to be good art. many would disagree saying how  can a chair be a work of art. often for me the art isn't in the functionality but the design, the clean lines, the ergonomics can fry if the design looks good for me. i used to collect japanese swords. the old ones. some of them again for me were works of art. they all measure the same length and width all have the same style guard but each one is differrent. each blade carries its own definition. anyway i'm starting to confuse myself and drift.......art  (something) is art because we make it so on more than one level. sociaty  tells us whats porn we tell sociaty whats art. jmo

 

billy