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Visual Art Tips?
Posted by Jen Graves on Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 4:46 PM
What should I be, um, looking for? Avoiding? Give me your erotic art advice, people. Or forever rest your...cases.
Photo: Kelly O holding a plaster cast of Jimi Hendrix's penis at last year's SEAF; more photos here!
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try to remember that not all of your audience are gay males.
i know they, like Loveschild, post a lot, but a substantial number of the lurkers are straight women.
thanks.
i know they, like Loveschild, post a lot, but a substantial number of the lurkers are straight women.
thanks.
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Look for what hits you in the gut emotionally.
As long as it's not another weird gooey duck looking thing made out of a bra. I just didn't understand that one last year.
As long as it's not another weird gooey duck looking thing made out of a bra. I just didn't understand that one last year.
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Look for things that strike you as the polar opposite of the Little Red Studio topless jester-hag, the most horrifying ad on thestranger.com.
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leek @7,
That is exactly the problem with judging erotic art. You call her the topless jester-hag. I think she is one of the sexiest women I know.
Jen, if you listen to most of the advice on here, you will be doomed.
You already have a good working knowledge of art. You know that it is impossible to please everyone's tastes. That is even more true of erotic art than more traditional art.
All you can do is use your best judgement, and seek to collect a good variety of different things. That way most people who go to the show will find at least a few things they like.
That is exactly the problem with judging erotic art. You call her the topless jester-hag. I think she is one of the sexiest women I know.
Jen, if you listen to most of the advice on here, you will be doomed.
You already have a good working knowledge of art. You know that it is impossible to please everyone's tastes. That is even more true of erotic art than more traditional art.
All you can do is use your best judgement, and seek to collect a good variety of different things. That way most people who go to the show will find at least a few things they like.
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Reverse: If you know the subject of that art, don't you think that probably affects your response to the art? I don't think that's about judging "erotic art" per se so much as about how one judges art when one has a personal connection to the artist or subject.
I'm sure your friend is lovely and I imagine someone could enjoy that piece of art without knowing the subject, but it takes a wild stretch of the imagination for me.
I'm sure your friend is lovely and I imagine someone could enjoy that piece of art without knowing the subject, but it takes a wild stretch of the imagination for me.
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The pic made me remember The Naked Gun.
Entering without a search warrant, destroying property, arson, sexual assault with a concrete dildo...?
Entering without a search warrant, destroying property, arson, sexual assault with a concrete dildo...?
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An absence of pretension. Nothing is worse than people who approach the erotic with no sense of fun.
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Getting to touch a real Cynthia Plaster-cast of Jimi was hot. I thought it'd be blacker though. Somehow.
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Does it speak to you? Well, does it?
If so, it may not be art, but it's definitely one helluva brilliant cock.
If so, it may not be art, but it's definitely one helluva brilliant cock.
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If you really want to make things easy on yourself, disqualify all the paintings of women peeing. That should cut your choices by a third or more.
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