Thursday, May 3, 2007

Street poster art


Street poster art is a kind of urban art that explores attributes (like languages and/or techniques) of the traditional poster art or even of the common poster format. It can be still understood as an art piece that is pasted on the streets. Sometimes not comprehended as a form of contemporary art, street posters culture are growing up fast and nowadays we can see works in places like Barcelona, Berlin, London, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Madrid and New York

Tuesday, April 17, 2007

Erotic art

Defining erotic art is difficult since perceptions of both what is erotic and what is art fluctuate. For example, a voluptuous nude painting by Peter Paul Rubens could have been considered erotic or pornographic when it was created for a private patron in the 17th century. In a different context, a sculpture of a phallus in some African cultures may be considered a traditional symbol of potency though not overtly erotic.
In addition, a distinction is often made between erotic art and
pornography (which also depicts scenes of love-making and is intended to evoke erotic arousal, but is not usually considered art). The distinction may lie in intent and message; erotic art intended as pieces of art, encapturing formal elements of art, and drawing on other historical artworks. Pornography may also use these tools, but is primarily intended to arousal one sexually. Nevertheless, these elements of distinction are highly subjective.