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> "featuring idealistically rendered warriors and princesses, muscular and scantily clad (but not indecent)"

Picture a couple of lines later shows two completely naked women. Might be considered "indecent"


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lcrz10/01/2024

This comment exemplifies the puritanical view that nakedness is somehow bad or impure.

Notice that the men in the paintings of Vallejo are also almost completely naked, hacking away at monsters with large weapons. Yet you did not point to them and say they were indecent.

I really hope that the rest of the world doesn’t take over the sex/violence sensitivities as are prevalent in the US.

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Etheryte10/01/2024

This is a very big Americanism that's not common elsewhere, if you look at classical art anywhere, you'll see naked bodies galore.

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black_knight10/01/2024

I don’t think naked bodies are widely considered indecent in art. That’s just the puritans.

I think the line is usually drawn around explicitly sexual acts.

(I also don’t believe being indecent is necessarily a bad thing in art. It is sometimes just another effect which can be used.)

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HelloNurse10/01/2024

They are riding dragons, not doing anything indecent.