Paraphrasing:

Ten minutes spent sitting by a pretty girl may feel like ten seconds, but ten minutes next to your high school algebra teacher may feel like ten hours. That is relativity.

Art is relative, just as the old saying states that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. You also overlook the fact that people use deviantArt to show off things they draw or take pictures of, regardless of what it is, so long as it follows the rules, or evades them. This website is a social networking website, as well as an archive of artwork from amateurs and professionals.

I could probably get a statue of two dogs engaging in reproductive activities into a museum if I really tried at it.

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Saucetastic

Einstein said something to that effect. I forgot to add that after paraphrasing him.

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Saucetastic

If you really did try
This whole rant started when I just had enough of it.. one way or another I stumbled across this user whose entire gallery was dedicated to pictures of women he'd managed to get to pose nude for him. And when I say 'ose', I don't mean artistically in an "oh wow look at beautiful concept he's portraying! the shape of her limbs are analogous to that of the vitruvian man!" I mean more like "heck, she'd make the next jenna jameson!"
and all his comments were from users of the alike saying things like "Oh i'd totally do her" etc. etc.
it was silly!

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Come read my work! =decknine

ah I was wondering what it'd come from

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Come read my work! =decknine

Well, expressing your desire to have intercourse with something, whether it be a model or a toaster usually means you really like whatever it is you have expressed the desire to mate with.

For example if I said I would "totally do that chick across the room," it simply means I enjoy looking at her, and would perhaps also enjoy taking her to get some coffee and begin a discussion on the evolution of human society.

Besides, the vitruvian man is a loser. He wasn't meant to be art, hes a diagram of a person to show proportion.

Furthermore, what reason is there for pornography not being art? Art is "the quality, production, expression, or realm, according to aesthetic principles, of what is beautiful, appealing, or of more than ordinary significance."

As previously stated, art is relative. quality, significance, beauty, appeal, all relative. It depends on the situation and who you are.

As I understand it, in some countries women can't even expose their skin without repercussions. Other countries, women can do as they please with their bodies.

What about men? What if they were in the same poses as you describe, would it be more or less artistic? Aside from the comments changing from "I WANNA BANG THAT" to absence, there probably would not be much difference. Is it still pornographic?

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Saucetastic

"When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity. "

Ok, that's the quote. I was close with the girl and the sitting.

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Oh yes I totally think it would be pornographic nomatter the gender as long as it was still in this context. I mean, by looking at this user's work not many people would be able to say "yes, thats just art, relative to whatever it is you usually find in the nude section". In no way were these heavily make-upped, large breasted, skanky posing women were meant to depict anything less than porn.
At least, if you believe it to be completely relative, than just in my opinion

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Come read my work! =decknine

yes close enough! I think your version sounds a bit more modern..

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Come read my work! =decknine

Well, just because you have large breasts doesn't mean you're a porn star.

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Saucetastic