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#Artistic Freedom
ratguy-nico · 4 months
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okey today was a waste. I didn't want to start something new because I have no head for that. So I start working in a scketch from months ago. and get instantly regret with the result, but hey…I tried to do something so dont be harsh on me.
I bring up all the layers so you couldn't see how awful it is. And also because my process is a mess.
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alskylark · 11 months
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hippiegoth97 · 2 months
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Let Me Make Some Shit Clear
Hey, everybody. I never thought I would have to make a post like this, but here we go. Today I was tagged in a post by the lovely @violetpixiedust (please check out their post about this as well they cover it extremely well) and found out I was mentioned in a 'call-out' post for my Gator Tillman one-shot. The OP of the call-out post didn't have the balls to tag me, and instead listed me with many others and blocked me unprovoked. Here's screenshots of that post. I'll go into my feelings on that in a second. But, take a moment to read through all that.
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So, let's set the record straight so nobody misunderstands me.
I do not in any way support MAGA bullshit, or any conservative ideology of any kind. I am a bisexual, leftist, atheist woman who believes in equality, respect, and rights for all.
I do not condone the awful actions of Gator Tillman, or his shit father. My story was very clear on that as well, he's extremely flawed and I thought I made that obvious. I really tried to drive home the fact that he's a product of abuse.
I was rooting for Dorothy Lyon the whole fucking season, because she is a badass woman who has been through too much for one lifetime. I myself am a victim of child abuse which has carried on into my adulthood. I know her. I am her. But I also know, and am, Gator. The OP also completely glazes over the fact that Gator was extremely abused. We see how Roy treats his 'property'. I do not think Gator would have been able to leave the ranch either, unless he got married off. If he left, he would be hunted down too.
Also, Gator knows he did bad things, he was ready to go to jail to pay for them as long as his awful father was kept away from him. Because he FEARED HIM. He was literally a child stuck in a grown man's body, and that is how we sympathize with him. And he killed that poor old woman on accident, I'm sure he took no pleasure in that. And the man in the skirt paid him back triple.
And another thing, it's fanfiction. And for those of you who have been in the trenches as long as I have would know that all kinds of stories get told in this community of ours. Is it always ethical? no. Is it always 100% morally sound? No. Does it explore many taboo subjects through artistic expression? Hell yes. There is a ton of stuff out there that I find repulsive and would never read. I will not say what because it is not my place to censor or judge others, or tell them how to express themselves. I simply focus on the works I do like, and read those. And this is something new fandom culture has seemed to have forgotten. Over and over I see people wringing their hands at smut, or subjects they find triggering, or things society says are wrong. But you're really opening a fucking can of worms when you're calling for the reporting, banning, and censorship of those who think differently than you. That's how you get laws like KOSA that directly target POC and LGBTQ+ content because some think it's 'pervasive' to children. That's how you get laws prohibiting teaching real history and removing diverse books from libraries.
Lastly, I will NEVER, EVER censor myself to please others. I will write whatever the fuck I want. You don't have to like it. That's fine. I learned a long time ago that I'm not to everyone's taste. And I've long since stopped giving a rat's ass about it. I am an artist, and I will continue to create the art that I am passionate about until my last dying breath.
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glass-heart · 6 months
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Decided to be a little creative tonight~
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Yah I just bought some new pens and paper and tested em out.
Went a little abstract but it did felt good to just draw and don't think.
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moth-time · 1 year
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You should draw my fave, Quilava :3
It is also MY fave, anon! Excellent taste.
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We stan a shapeless noodle
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matchaexe · 4 months
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i wanna change up my art style a little bit, so i'm offering a new service to you!
$20 - $100 USD!
click here to request a comm!
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ginstermoff · 1 year
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Antis would've loved nazi Germany.
I'm not kidding, they had a whole thing going on with art censorship and prosecution.
Just google Entartete Kunst (Degenerate Art).
Your art didn't fit with the "pure" bullshit? You were, oh no *clutches pearls*, queer and your art showed it? - well then you were obviously sub-human and/or a pedophile and you were either killed or sent to a concentration camp.
Sound familiar, fancops?
You're not the good guys here. You're a literal cult and your mindset is dangerous.
Grow up, read a book, change as a person.
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mvaljean525 · 1 year
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                                                 Diadumenè
"...the simply beauty of the attitude so struck me when I saw it [the Esquiline Venus] in Rome for the first time four years ago that immediately on my return I took it up as a subject for my picture. Now, such an attempt at restoration appears to me to be a perfectly legitimate aim for a painter. To represent in painting the 'motive' which suggests the statue, with the rich setting of architecture and colour which the sculptor is unable to give, is surely within the province of the artist; and the action of the figure, one of those simple everyday movements which especially lend themselves to artistic treatment, seems to me quite a suitable for a picture as a statue. It is obvious, too, that there is no room for drapery in this particular subject; if done at all it should be as the statue; the forced introduction of drapery would be a prudery which would increase the evil, if evil there is....I had hoped that by my attempt at realizing the sculptor's motive, combining with it such a surrounding as should not only enrich the picture and form a beautiful setting to a beautiful figure, but give some idea of what the bath-room of a lovely Greek or Roman girl might be, before the days when white glazed tiles formed the highest ideal of decoration, I should lift my figure out of the category of the baigneuses [bathers] of the French Salon."
Poynter, Letter to the Editor (The Times of London, May 28, 1885)
Sir Edward John Poynter painted several versions of the Diadumenè, all derived from the Esquiline Venus and named after the Diadumenos ("diadem binder") of Polyclitus (Pliny, XXXIV.55). Poynter refers to these classical antecedents in defending his work against charges of indecency. Barely visible in the background, there even is a silver statuette in the same pose.
The pictures portray the model binding her hair with a fillet (a strip of ribbon or cloth) in preparation for bathing. As Poynter indicates in a long letter to The Times, the little finger of the left hand visible on the back of the head and the direction of the fillet dictated his recreation of the pose, the left arm raised to hold the hair in place while the fabric was wound by the right.
In 1893, Poynter felt compelled to drape the larger Diadumenè, presumably because he could not find a buyer for the nude version. It now is in a private collection.
The painting was shown at the Royal Academy in 1884, and possibly at the Grosvenor Gallery in 1885, the same year that Poynter displayed a larger version of the subject at the Academy. That figure became the focus of a controversy in the pages of the The Times of London regarding the treatment of the nude in painting and its suitability as a subject for public exhibition.
It began with a letter of May 20, 1885 from "A British Matron," protesting against "the indecent pictures that disgrace our exhibitions" and their "utter want of delicacy." No less degraded were the galleries themselves, "which ought to be sources of innocence and ennobling refinement to both sexes, of all ages and all ranks of society."
Poynter's response is quoted above, but he was resigned to the fact that "on a subject of this kind there are no means of arriving at a conclusion; no arguments can touch either those who look for indecency where none is meant, or those who, like the 'British Matron,' honestly turn away in horror at the supposed depravity which permits of such things being painted and exhibited."
A more pointed reply came from another reader, who suggests that the Matron did not go far enough in her censure, criticizing the painter who had only copied nature and not God for having created such an indelicate object in the first place.
Poynter himself wearily remarks that "An artist, especially if his taste is for classic art, likes for once in his life to try his hand at a simple nude figure as the sole subject of his pictures. M. Tadema has done it, taking as his 'Sculptor's Model' this very statue."
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The University of Chicago
https://penelope.uchicago.edu/~grout/encyclopaedia_romana/miscellanea/esquiline/poynter.html
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Graphic - Edward John Poynter  1836–1919
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poodlepincushion · 1 month
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“Toy Tiger” needlefelted faux taxidermy, I’ve taken to calling him Rudolfo
This little guy was an artistic freedom design with a pair of mismatched vintage glass doll eyes
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artscreat1 · 4 months
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The transformative power of dance and song in the liberation of the soul print design Sweatshirt épais
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skippylynn · 10 months
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Breaking Free! Artistic freedom painted piece done for Cody on twitter!
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chibidarkness1111 · 1 year
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The attack on freedom continues.
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elegantzombielite · 1 year
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"An artist discovers his genius the day he dares not to please."
Andre Malraux, novelist, adventurer, art historian, and statesman (3 November 1901-1976)
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By: Stephen Knight
Published: Jan 12, 2022
When you spend a significant amount of your time pushing back against censorship, you eventually find yourself fighting the corner of people you don’t especially care for. What little I know about the life and career of singer Demi Lovato still manages to irritate me. I assumed her desperate pursuit of attention had peaked with the announcement in 2021 of her ‘nonbinary’ gender identity – whatever that means. Since then, she has also claimed to be able to sing to ghosts – as though the dead haven’t suffered enough.
I suppose trying to grab people’s attention is a useful strategy when you have an album to flog. Unfortunately, the poster campaign for her latest album, Holy Fvck, has caught the attention of the UK’s Advertising Standards Agency (ASA). This week, the ASA announced a ban on the poster campaign, in response to a mere four complaints. The posters were originally displayed at six locations in London for a four-day period in August last year.
Although the ASA mentions the almost-swear word ‘Fvck’ in the album’s title as potentially problematic, the part of its reasoning that should raise eyebrows is its claim that the poster ‘was likely to cause serious offence to Christians’. This is because the album poster features Lovato wearing bondage gear while lying down on a mattress in the shape of a cross. The iconography is clearly designed to evoke the image of Christ’s crucifixion. All in all, it’s a rather desperate attempt to be provocative. It falls a little flat given that Lovato isn’t Madonna, and this isn’t 1989.
The tiny number of complaints suggests that the ASA made its decision largely on behalf of hypothetically offended Christians, rather than actually offended Christians writing in. By now, the Christian faith has been satirised, mocked and critiqued to the point of placing it on life-support. Where faith and artistic expression is concerned, mocking Christianity has become the easy option. The ASA decision is unusual, largely because, in today’s Offence Olympics, there are other faiths and ideologies that are generally afforded far greater privileges than Christianity.
This is not the first time London advertisements have become an ideological battleground, either. Back in 2016, London mayor Sadiq Khan moved to ban adverts that featured attractive, slim and scantily clad women from the Tube. The censorship in this instance was sold to us as a virtuous attempt to combat ‘body-shaming’. Yet all this did was demonstrate that Khan doesn’t understand that advertising is supposed to be aspirational. The end result of his ban was indistinguishable from the kind of censorship you would get under a religious-conservative modesty culture.
New pseudo-religious movements have been quick to claim offence at advertisements, too. In 2018, a billboard in Liverpool was removed after LGBT activists claimed it was offensive to transgender people. It featured nothing other than the dictionary definition of ‘woman’, as ‘adult human female’.
Given all this, it is hardly surprising that many groups have noticed what can be achieved when one claims to be ‘offended’. However tempting it may seem to fight fire with fire, it is ultimately self-defeating to invoke one’s own feelings of ‘offence’ to shut down speech you don’t like. Because offence is subjective. And so once you decide it is a justification for silencing someone, you have just surrendered any tools you could call upon to defend yourself when someone inevitably tries to silence you.
Unsurprisingly, Demi Lovato also fails to understand this basic principle. In 2021, she criticised her local yoghurt shop on social media, claiming she had been offended by its promotion of sugar-free cookies and other diet foods, which she felt constituted ‘harmful messaging’. What principles can she now call on to defend her right to create her pseudo-provocative art, if she herself thinks causing offence is enough to justify a ban?
I suppose Demi is fortunate she chose Christianity, rather than Islam, to pastiche. That means her blasphemy will not get her fired from her record label. No mobs will be formed outside her shows. And she will not need to go into hiding.
For those who blaspheme against Islam, such prospects are only too real. This month, it emerged in the US that a Minnesota professor had been fired for showing students a 14th-century painting of the Prophet Muhammad in an art-history class. Many will also be familiar with the schoolteacher at Batley Grammar School in Yorkshire, who in 2021 received death threats after displaying a caricature of Muhammad in his class. He is still in hiding today. Worst of all, in France in 2021, another schoolteacher, Samuel Paty, was beheaded in the street after he displayed images of Muhammad from Charlie Hebdo in a class on freedom of expression.
These are all different stories, coming from different contexts, with varying consequences. But the underlying mindset driving the censorship is the same: namely, the belief that religion should be afforded special privileges. That to offend the religious sensibilities of others is unacceptable by default. This view – whether it culminates in bans or beheadings – can accurately be described as a de facto blasphemy law.
We should resist such theocratic encroachments on free expression in whatever form they arise, however large or small, whether they come from the church, the mullahs or the Advertising Standards Agency.
Stephen Knight is host of the Godless Spellchecker podcast and the Knight Tube. Follow him on Twitter: @GSpellchecker
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matchaexe · 3 months
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artistic freedom piece for the always awesome Lach! thank you so much for working with me! 💙
comms are open!
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