The Hookah Lighter by Jean-Léon Gérôme - eviltoast
  • MajorHavoc@programming.dev
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    1 month ago

    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.

    • antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      1 month ago

      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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        1 month ago

        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…