Why artist consider the human body an art?

[KennyR]

These days the French have a habit of making porn films, calling it art, then selling it as a mainstream art movie. Porn actors, porn storylines, porn music. The label 'art' is just to take the porn to a wider audience.

Sometimes they can even make snuff movies - as long as the violence isn't real, but the sex is. Blaise Moi falls into that catagory. I'm insulted that they call this an art film. Give me back the days were French films were three hours of two people talking about sexual obsession in a darkened room! :-P

[KennyR]

@PMC

Actors having real sex in mainstream films is becoming more common and might even become the norm. At least, for crap films and actors who want to destroy their careers.

IMO, in films, only characters need to have sex, not actors. I don't see why actually doing it should be more artistic than not. Leave porn to the porn industry. Isn't art often more about portraying the illusion of something rather than presenting? What's next, people really getting killed in movies to try to get the shock value back again when films like Blaise Moi become commonplace?

These days art is more often about this shock value. It's a sham, controlled by a few very rich pretentious morons whose whole life experience can be summed up in the word 'valium'. They ran out of ideas a long time ago and can only try to grab an audience by using the worst taste possible.