Art Vs. Porn?

Where do you draw the line between what you consider art and/or erotic or sensual art, and pornography?





What do you consider 'over the line'?





I am not calling porn art. I am just wondering where, for you, you would stop considering something to be art. Like a nude would be art, or a sensual painting would be art, but something else would be considered porn. Where is the line?





Where do you stop calling it art, and start calling it porn?





I am asking this here, because you all seem to be thinking individuals.

Art Vs. Porn?
Porn has two purposes, to arouse sexual feelings and provide the creator with money. It may be artistic and beautifully crafted, but that is secondary to its real purpose, to arouse and make money. Some art is porn, but porn is never art.





Art can be erotic and sexual, but its intention goes beyond that. The artist doesn't create to titillate; the artist creates to communicate.





Don't go by societal definitions of porn and art. Soon, society will not even differentiate between the two. When this happens, art loses, not porn. Society loses because a society without some general consensus about the distinguising characteristics between art and porn is a society soon to vanish into history.
Reply:There's no true distinction. I'd say the only possible one is intent when created, but really there is no definition you can make that all will agree upon.
Reply:The difference to me is subtle at times. Art has never aroused me... in that way. However, art is meant to evoke emotion and arousal is a strong force so an artist may attempt to arouse as a way of making a point.





I guess the only sure thing is to go off what the artist or photographers claim.
Reply:Porn is focused on titilating it's audience through graphic display of sexuality, or sexual acts.





Art is designed to please the eye with inherent or expressed beauty of form, and /or to communicate a message to the mind or to elicit an emotional response graphically.





It is both in the intent of the artist, and in the eye of the beholder. Porn can be well crafted and appreciated for the beauty inherent in it, and art done as art can elicit lustful ideas in a viewer so inclined.





Only the"artist", and the viewer decide what they put into and get out of any work. Regardless of what you make or view, keep your intent pure because God reads hearts and minds.





Peace
Reply:I think you'd have to ask the artist or the porn producer. The definition lies in the intent. If it's meant for aesthetic contemplation, it's art. It's it's meant for sexual titillation, it's porn.
Reply:Someone last week said something like "It's all in the lighting," and I laughed, but I tend to agree. In general, art leaves something to the imagination...
Reply:It is the perspective of the viewer that labels it art or porn.
Reply:Well a good place to start is if you are embarrassed to walk your children in front of it -- you can question it's designation as art.
Reply:art is beauty, creativeness, originality, colour, shapes, emotion.





porn is raw, erotic, rude, no emotion put behind, and is just nude people doing "things" to eachother or to oneself.





art makes you gasp in wonder


porn just makes you gasp.
Reply:Art can include nude forms, but not in sexual acts, nor in a state of arousal (per sey).


A friend of mine, nice body, has taken to being a model for art classes. They draw his features, and yes he is nude. That is art. Men and Women, nude is fine, and my preference to have all genitalia, nipples covered. The human body is a great canvas to sculpt whether it be in paint, charcoal, or other means.
Reply:porn all the way. Its far more useful.
Reply:Art is a lot like beauty. It's in the eye of beholder. For example, I think Polk is an utter joke and can't BELIEVE people pay what they do for his crap. But some one out there likes him or he wouldn't have been a famous contemporary artist.....


I suppose the same goes for porn. There are people out there who feel the classic Greek statues are indeed porn. All in how you see it.
Reply:One way I have heard is to say, Would I put this out on my coffee table for my grandmother to see? Or, would I be upset if my child saw this? I think intent is also necessary; was the person who created the photograph, statue, painting, writing, intending to sexually arouse or to intellectually arouse. There is a big difference there.
Reply:Porn is art.
Reply:Appreciating true art requires neurons. Appreciating porn just requires your groin.
Reply:I guess for me, it would be whether the objective was to celebrate and glorify the beauty of the human body, or to get somebody worked up so they could wack it (to use the technical term).