Art Censorship: Necessary or Not? Art was judged by its beauty, emotional power, and personal interest. Now art is judged by safety guidelines determining if the art work is “viewer safe” or “pornographic”. Since the beginning of the artistic era; artists have challenged controversies and shown different mediums of thinking. But, society has neglected many of these works of art saying that the art is dangerous and harmful. So, to prevent such harm rules of censorship were created, but artists were caused an equal harm by being censored. Therefore, censorship rules are not necessary for art; censorship lowers the values, interpretations, and the governmental rights a signed to the people. Firstly, art is as old as life it self, and has always told the values of different time periods. These artists have fought for cultural and personal values countless times. As Lenhart, a professional art and design creator, said, “Artistic work should not be banned or censored it [forms] an insult to the artist.”(1); essentially it is like saying {thing} is good, but {another person} is much better instead of just
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Others could see it as abstract, fine, or modern art. No one is ever the same. On the campus of Indiana there was an exhibition held for controversial images. Many reported that they were not insulted or offended, but interested in the way each image was portrayed as sarcastic or humorous, even confrontational. The censorship which takes place in today's culture of art happens because every person views things differently, and may or may not be insulted. To add on, just how art insults people, people insult each other causing equal harm yet that is more accepted than art. To say the least society turns almost a blind eye to people insulting each other, but are hawks when an object insults them without
Others could see it as abstract, fine, or modern art. No one is ever the same. On the campus of Indiana there was an exhibition held for controversial images. Many reported that they were not insulted or offended, but interested in the way each image was portrayed as sarcastic or humorous, even confrontational. The censorship which takes place in today's culture of art happens because every person views things differently, and may or may not be insulted. To add on, just how art insults people, people insult each other causing equal harm yet that is more accepted than art. To say the least society turns almost a blind eye to people insulting each other, but are hawks when an object insults them without