In the 19th Century in Japan, exist artists, those made very interesting pieces of art. They was painters, and the topics of those paints was the erotism and sex. Kitagawa Utamaro and Nishikawa Sukenobu are some of this artists. This is an article for "theguardian" page of internet and was write for Jonathan Jones. Explain a little about an exhibition of this japanese art in the British Museum. The important right now, its the way to saw this art, because the sex in that century in Japan, its not like the pornography in our own time. The erotism or the sex itself are very explicit, but "shunga prints" celebrate "sex as a sensual act, and everyone has a good time". This prints there's no violence or cruelty, Jones says, "no sense of sin". This is very important, because we know the pornography in this time, and the dirtyness or the violence, are the most modern and popular topics, but in that century in Japan, the people, its more like, sense people, or that its what the prints says. "Shunga was the underground art of samurai Japan", because in that time, Confucian its trying to save the morality, but shunga print laugh, sensuality, this art its sexy, but don't pass the line of morality, because embrace with the sense, turning the oficial worldview upsidedown.
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- Article: http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2013/oct/01/shunga-sex-pleasure-erotic-japanese-art
It's interesting how the contact with western civilization changed the way sex was concieved in the japanese culture. The same can be seen in the transformation of the geisha, wich passed from an artist to a prostitute after the World War II. The prints are really interesting too, I'd like to read more about the topic.
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It is beautiful!!
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