One point here... art should never be censored by anyone. Classic imagery of Cherubs, Slaying a dragon, even Humans being shot (*especially in the context of street art or protest/revolutinary images), has an important place in society. Much of art is a way for the illiterate to see and understand things that otherwise they might not. It allows one to come to their own decisions on events past and present, real or imaginary. And often it can mislead (*as in art used as propaganda). But you must allow it to flourish and grow for civilization to be truly free and intelligent.

Art makes a statement about societal issues. Tells stories of mystery, bravery and magic. Tragedy, miscarriages of justice, and the agony that comes with seeing the world for the reallity it is! Would you censor Michaelangelo? Leonardo, Van Gogh or Giger???  Art depicts many things, it also tells truisms, and conveys outrage or the frustration of repression. Often these images are raw and brutal, like life, and have violence in them as a way to convey that life is raw and brutal!
You cannot whitewash art! Or life...

Art is a vital necessity of any genre or age. Like music. When you seek to "clean it up", or make it "acceptable", it cheats the artist, the viewer and society. Death, violence, crimes against humanity... to ignore and disallow these in artistic imagery is to actually turn a blind eye to the world's reality. What about the documentary "The Cove"? About the cruelty to dolphins? What if someone did a picture here that depicted this tragedy? To teach the illiterate that does not or is not aware of this crime against mother nature, our planet, her creatures??? Would that deserve to be censored? Because some do not want to see the truth? If the movie industry allowed these rules many would never have seen this travesty! Would that be GOOD??? 

Art is freedom of expression on every level. Often done on behalf of those who cannot speak out for themselves, say like Dolphins! Children in Somalia, or People fighting for human rights in China. Did someone actually say do not show President Kennedy's assasination, Tiananmen Square, or Kent State because it will offend the conservatives at home? In it's own sad way, it is art, it conveys an image on film of the history of our society. Art is supposed to do this.

The limits placed on art by anyone anywhere, is actually saying unless it is acceptable to a few, it should be denied.

~Ariana~

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