Street art in Berlin advertising an art show .-subject to edit. re-edited 9/7/13

Interesting that you can put something like this up in Berlin and no police come and tear it down .
But, does something like this cause a disturbance to the psyche?. For example, if a child saw it, does it constitute abuse of the child?.
Will the child be damaged, or is the the parents reaction, and parenting skills that cause the trauma?.

Real life ads from the company are pretty open about their pornographic inspirations.
It is worth noting owner  Don  Charney is always in and out of court for sexually harrassing the models, four of them are suing him and he all but admits it in various interviews. This msnbc article shows his views on women.http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14082498/ns/dateline_nbc/t/sexy-marketing-or-sexual-harassment/#.T1oH0_E2-So

What about geographical context then? A Titian, if placed in a public space would it cause controversy or does the historical distance give us an objective perspective?.

Is it porn or art, and do we care  because  academics tell us its culturally significant.

Carravagio's paintings of children, does our pleasure in viewing these images alter when we know he was a paedophile who kept a young boy in his studio as an assistant and model and had sex with him, perhaps the young boy painted here.

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Look at these tribal members, are we offended by their old flesh, that it is so exposed or do give it a pass from an anthropological position.

Are you offended by nudity, is it male nudity or female or children's naked bodies?
Is it context?

Do we only pixellate out genitals on recent recordings of naked men?
Perhaps if its non sexual, or only because he is in a public space?

It gets muddled when we try to ascertain the rules.
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Apologies for the hurried edit in this post- work in progress. Feel free to leave comments if you have them, i always reply.

'Buried Treasure'1928 starring Everyready Harton (sic)-nsfw

The animated pornographic movie was made and produced by various animated studios in tandem, with each studio working covertly, producing the sections at night. .
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eveready_Harton_in_Buried_Treasure
Wikipedia ascertains it was made to honour the birthday of animation pioneer Windsor Mckay.
The main thing i find interesting about this film is the introduction of bestiality,  which though disturbing has to be a response to the Hays morality code which asked that animals wear trousers and female animals wear dresses (particularly cows). The racism of the time is manifested by the mexican stereotype.
These types of films show that the past which some naively believe to be innocent, of sexuality, predjeduice and corruption was in fact less progressive than our own.

I added my own soundtack since the film was silent, the low resoloution is due to the films ageandthe reproduction process.
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I will be using this video in art.

THE CUCKOLD PHENOMENON 2 :In art.-nsfw-subject to edit.

I am interested in the culture and history surrounding cuckold ism, both as an investigation in to the psycho sexual reasons behind it, and how this is represented in art. Most fetishes have an active art scene, which is viewed separately from the photographic representations of the sexual act. So what is going on?. The art must serve as another purpose. 

Isaac Cruickshank-circa 1800 'The cuckold departs for the hunt'.

In which we can see the ironic title, with a man under the bed, who is making the 'cuckold' gesture at the departing husband. This is a moral etching, not the pornography of later years.

Here we can see the man holding the baby, he is making the symbolic horns gesture, suggesting the paternity of the child is up for question. The man grinning, in the background suggests he is the real father. Pots and pitchers and ladles dipping in to them were sexual metaphors.Vemeer used them a lot.

Horns representing the cuckold. The male fear of raising another persons child and not passing on ones genetic material is an old fear in art. (researching artist)

And the modern version of the cuckold, latent homosexuality, the man tied up, impotent, but with an erection. He is a 'sissy' a man humiliated by the 'bull' who is having sex with his wife. The modern pornographic phenomenon of cuckoldism is very different from it's origins. Now the male is a willing passive participant. I have seen cuckold art that represents homosexual contact between the bull and the sissy, but mainly it is the white guy watching his wife having sex with a larger black man while he is humiliated, gaining sexual satisfaction from being dominated .
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Pertinent to the subject is this amusing and educating website which details the porn habits of other countries.The website is very safe, and contains no nudity rather a graph that is highlighted as one drags the curser over the relevant country.
 http://www.pornmd.com/sex-search
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This post will be edited and added with conclusions later.
Apologies for the rough and ready feel to it.

Tree of knowledge.

This is the tree of knowledge, as we know Eve was punished for seeking knowledge, so the bible tells it. In my interpretation i see the garden of Eden as a negative space where ignorance rules, an, educational dark place. At the side of the tree, under the apple are the things Eve has gained from biting in to knowledge. She is educated, has learned new skills, and has control over her own reproductive process.

I prefer to see the Garden of Eden as a transitional period, one in which Eves biting in to the apple was an evolutionary and revolutionary act.

Ink on paper. 6/3/11.

An old song on a new flute-subject to edit.

This is a post i put on my Daily Booth, ostensibly i use this website to promote my art, but find it increasingly a great litmus test for popular opinion, trends and how people social network online.

http://dailybooth.com/sundersart/24290610   the link to the daily booth post.

The man in the picture is Glenn Beck, who could work for the Ministry of Love in Orwells '1984' with no qualms. He is a bigot, and  is the current darling of right wing America, recently one can see him parading up and down in front of the American flag or the constitution, bawling his eyes out  about the indignity of having a black president.

This 'beyond satire' peformance has resulted in a series of memes ridiculing the man.

I posted it to see what peoples reactions would be.

Here is the responses.

I think this focus on everyone becoming 'caramel coloured' is an emotional response to distance the individual from their ethnic group that they consider racist. One often sees it in the white liberal generation that lived through the civil rights movement.
My own view is that it is a type of cultural regressive domination, the emphasis being that one must marry in to the dominant ethnic group in order to progress. This is not equality of opportunity, this is predjeduice.
In America native american women were encouraged to adopt white culture and have white husbands, in order to assimilate and 'breed out' the native american culture.
Black slaves were raped by their white owners in order to 'increase' their property.

Now we have cultural appropriation, which is not respect and understanding of other peoples differences but a commercialised, distanced and shallow parody of other cultures and people.

The act of crossing ethnic and cultural divides in order to have a relationship with someone you are attracted to is, of course, a good sign of equality of opportunity. But the idea of a culture of everyone being 'caramel coloured' is really about watering down what we find threatening. And is not true understanding of other people differences, and celebrating them. Our very survival depends on our diversity on a genetic level, it is the reason no disease will ever wipe us out.
Part of this fear is capitalistic i think.
To quote Mark Twain 'The real yellow peril, is gold'.

If you have thoughts and opinions, please leave them i would love to hear from you, i always respond.
Thanks.

In defence of minding your own business.-subject to edit

Just some fun one minute sketches. Playing around with tropes and cliches, bit obvious, but they were fun to do and it was nice to break out the pen.
The top image is a Marlon Brando impersonator, in one of his most famous films:

I found this interesting because the image of the biker, in the motorcycle gear has been fetishished and embraced by the gay community. This appropriation of a culture, with it's language and attitude is a means of dealing with those who would traditionally target you.

In the same way that women have appropriated 'bitch' and black people the word 'nigger' taking control of the means of attack and engaging with it on a cultural level allows a means of defence. Literally robbing it of its power to harm.
Cultural appropriation of those who normally target minoritys is very prevalent in the gay community.

Tom of Finland was a talented artist, known for taking the image of Marlon Brando, and drawing what was effectivley  gay  slash fiction .

http://www.tomsparties.com/Galleries/ToF/index.html

I like the irony of the moustache, in England at least, once known to represent a type of masculinity is know identified strongly in the gay scene, meaning it's death among the straight population.

These quick drawings are only on the surface about gay rights, they are really about cultural appropriation, and the absorbtion of that culture in to another, which is what i find interesting. Normally such things are seen as patronising, such as in the case of the Halloween costumes.

But absorbtion of straight,very masculine culture in to the gay culture, who simply remove the violence aimed at minoritys and keep everything else, i believe actually frees up men and women from those old tropes that keep us defined in limited social positions.
Seeing a group take our cliches and exaggerate them, allows us perspective , enabling us to disband such narrow definitions of ourselves, leading to much more consideration of the individual.

Thank you for looking at this post, if you have thoughts i would love to hear your views.