• antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    4 days ago

    Orientalism wasn’t an art movement, the picture is in “academic” style.

    IMO your interpretation can be put in a more straightforward/blunt way: the painting is basically pornography built upon cheap cultural stereotypes. (And it really is bizarre that this sort of garbage art gets upvoted to much, simply because it has an air of refinement around itself that excuses its clearly pornographic character.)

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      And it really is bizarre that this sort of garbage art gets upvoted to much, simply because it has an air of refinement around itself that excuses its clearly pornographic character.

      Maybe we’re just upvoting it because we enjoy pornography…lol.

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        Well, I guess that would be fair, as long as we don’t confuse sexual appeal with artistic value. (Saying this in particular due to a poster guy ITT who said an another poster critical of the painting should “get some culture”.) But the fact that it is posted on an art sublemmy and not some NSFW sublemmy, suggests that the confusion has occurred.

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          But the fact that it is posted on an art sublemmy and not some NSFW sublemmy, suggests that the confusion has occurred.

          Lol. Great point.

          Now I find myself contemplating how long one could theoretically go with a daily cross-post that technically fit the rules of both this and at least one NSFW community…I wonder if they would ever run out of eligible art pieces…