Audacious photographs by Martin Kovalik – Art or Pornography?
The questions related to eroticism, pornography or art are always polemic due to the impossibility of tracing a frontier that separates them, in part due to the fact that they are intimately related with tolerance and the experience of the observer himself. I particularly like a definition that at times I referred to, according to the appreciation of photographers like Aaron Hanks and Vlastimil Kula.
We can afford to distinguish eroticism from pornography through participation, and not, from the observer in a sexual spectacle. In pornography there is participation through sexual arousment when eroticism itself brings that natural awakening of desire and is not the main goal of the literary or artistic material but to solicit a complicity from a distance, aiming basically at knowing what we want, the knowledge of desire and pleasure with, no limit, constitutes a form of pleasure.
Martin Kovalik is another photographer that forces us to perform the same exercise... But once again it is pertinent to question if we are before art or Pornography. Strong images...
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I do not believe all these photo's to be art.
I think some are quite distasteful.
And in my opinion I believe the only photo that has symbolism is the one with the rose because the rose represents the vagina and using a rose to represent that without the need of showing it looks quite lovely.
Wow
very nice art work
well done you captured a women with all her emotions
very taste fully done
i see pure erotism at its best-
thouse who see pornography are missing the interpretation-
Thankyou for not conforming with the mainstream
follow your heart
look forward to viewing more of your art in the future
cheers
Ps-loved it all
Steven
Quite beautiful. The whole human should be explored and photographed. Very unique & tasteful. Keep going, make it funky!
The difference between art and pornography is that art is about form and presentation and pornography is about finding an surrogate sex object to masturbate over.
That being said, the difference is really a specturm, and these photographs, while quite artistic, could easily be used as pornography, unlike traditionsl nude photography which is too formal and abstract, even though it does depict naked bodies.
It's "the reason why" that tells us if it is art or not.
Thank you for your comment, Kurt.
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