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Portraits of Beautiful Women: Traditional & Digital Illustrations of Cute fairies & legendary women of History & Mythology, Beautiful Women in Paintings & Pictures, Paintings, Colored Pencil Drawings & Original Studio Photography;Celebrating both body & Spirit of Beautiful Women. Howard David Johnson works in a wide diversity of media * Oil paintings * Acrylic Paintings * Prismacolor Paintings * Drawings * Chalk & Oil Pastel Paintings * Photography * and terminal but non least: Digital Artistry & Mixed Media * Because of the apply of photography in everything he does, even Johnson's all-oil paintings tin can be termed mixed media.*
" Elven Fairy magic"MMIII, " A portrait of Grace" ~ Oil on Canvas MMXIXand "The Firebird" MMXX.
"Blodeuwedd and Gwydion MMXIV", "Pixie Dust" MMV "Aureate Fae" MMXIX Photo realism in Mixed media
"Faerie Guardians" (above left) is some other illustration from Shakespeare's Midsummer Dark's Dream this fourth dimension featuring Jessica as the model and is rendered in oil. Morgan Le Fay is a mixed media creation including oils, pastels, digital 2D & 3D, and "Sleeping Beauty" is also rendered in oils and features Grace as the model.
"Elven Fairy Magic" colored pencils and "Pandora's Box" oil on canvas and "The Blossom Fairy" is mixed media
"Back to the Stone Age" and "Raven of Atlantis" were created as book covers for Fantasy Adventure novels ~ and feature a popular new brood of sexy action heroines - femme fatales influenced by the warrior goddesses of ancient religions...
The Lady of Shalott" This painting past Howard David Johnson is inspired past the verse form by Tennyson.
"The Oracle", "Cleopatra the Seductress" and " Tigris Tigris the Amur Tiger Girl " MMVIII-MMXIX Mixed Media
More portraits of Jessica r endered in Prismacolors and Spectracolors with Ebony pencil lowlights on Windsor & Newton Cotman 140 lb. H2o Color Paper . Background heightened with pastels. Fifty-fifty with nothing but pencil and paper the use of original photography of as a source makes this mixed media.
Earlier I brainstorm drawing & painting my complex illustrative portraits of beautiful women, I begin with studio photography. These portraits start the working relationship with the models off on the correct foot every time & establish the necessary bail for the acting poses later on. For more studio headshot photography of beautiful women visit 'Studio Photography' beneath...
Above: 35 MM Studio Photography, Digital Studio Photography and Colored Pencil Drawing. After the sessions of glamour headshot photography I brainstorm drawing some simple headshot portraits in colored pencil, "Prismacolor paintings" if y'all volition, because these kind of pictures are not at all what comes to mind when people hear the give-and-take' drawing' These new oil based wax pencils are not the first dry out painting medium; the term 'Pastel Painting' originated in the 17th century. For more on this, visit 'Pencil Portraits' & 'Pencil Portraits two' below...
Renderings in colored pencil, following the portrait sessions come up the carefully planned photo shoots for my illustrations and fine fine art. Some are very innocent and some are mildly sensual depending on the women & the project. Equally many equally fifty source images are drawn upon to create a single analogy. Hither is an instance of one of more than a hundred thousand source photos I've shot in my studio of these beautiful women and the finished Paintings below. For more on how these dramatic illustrations are designed and created visit 'about the creative person' below...
Source Photo (left) and the Volume Drawing or Prismacolor Painting (center) and the final oil painting on canvas (correct)
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Gimmicky Pin Up Girl Art
"Her New Swim Arrange" , "2nd Thoughts" & "Golden Dreams" 2019 ~ mixed media including oil on canvas
I enjoy doing innocent pictures for all you lot girls and saints out at that place, just Painting Pin Up Girl Paintings from history, fable and sociology is mad amounts of fun for me and the boys. To see many more than dazzling photographically realistic paintings of these beautiful women, visit the pin up girl art gallery through the links below...
Vintage style Pivot upward girls~ Can Pin Upwards Girl Art be fine Art?
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" Her little chow hounds", " Mushroom Hunters" and "The Human Eater" all MMXIX
Those marvelous details ~ close ups of "The Dragon Hatchlings " MMXX
Here'south some more examples of portraiture of these beautiful women featuring colored pencil combined with pastel (left ) and express selections of Prismacolors (right ) ...if yous keep scrolling down, there's lots more than stunning images of Beautiful Women in diverse Art media displayed below with essays on fine art and technology past the creative person and some full size Art...
SOME PIECES OF ORIGINAL Art ON Paper LIKE THESE ARE AVAILABLE:
Several pieces are currently available, mostly 11x14-13x16 inch Prismacolor Paintings (similar Helen of Troy) and pencil portraits (like Arriba #2) followed in number past Acrylic, Prismacolor and pastel mixed media all on #400 Strathmore Bristol Board ranging from $700.00-$1400. 00 USD and Oil Paintings on sheet ranging from $1999.00 - 10,000.00 USD. Pieces that take never been rendered in oil can be deputed in 16x20 inch size on canvas for 50% downward and delivered in under xc days with signed certificates of authenticity aka legal documents pledging never to return it in that size and media again to ensure premium collectability and investment potential.
David can also do a completely new pic designed in digital media (for more than on this visit his digital media page) and when nosotros approve the photo-montage, he uses it equally reference to render it in oil on canvas. No surprises. Existing Artwork is shipped very well protected and get out to you immediately via Fed Ex or USPS Limited mail upon receipt of payment at our expense. All new creations cost a bit more depending on what is involved. All new creations and rendering photo montages into fine art on paper are a LOT of fun with electronic mail attachments and digital cameras.
ORIGINAL OIL PAINTINGS ON Canvass LIKE THIS ARE ALSO Bachelor:
Nigh all of Johnson's Mixed Media creations (higher up left) displayed in this site are bachelor to be rendered in oil on canvass like the 20x16 oil on canvass Faerie Guardians 2006 (to a higher place right). Each blueprint will only be rendered in oil once at this size and tin be delivered in as lilliputian every bit 90 days. Sadly, much of the subtlety, vibrance, lustre and impact of an original oil painting is lost when it is scanned and imported to digital media or even printed by a main printer. Zero can compare to an original oil painting viewed in person in my opinion but the other painting media definitely wait skilful in impress and have their charms and distinct advantages as well.
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With a background in traditional media including oils, pastels & colored pencils, Howard David Johnson embraces leading border digital media in the creation of his depictions of fantasy, folklore, mythology, legend, religion, and heroic history. He works in a wide variety of media * Oil paintings * Acrylic Paintings * Prismacolor Paintings * Drawings * Chalk & Oil Pastel Paintings * Photography * 2D &3D Digital Artistry & Mixed Media *
In one of David's invitations to the Florence Biennale Contemporary Art Exhibition, (a partner in the United nations' Dialog among Nations), United nations Secretarial assistant General Kofi Anon wrote him: "Artists have a special role to play in the global struggle for peace. At their best, artists speak not simply to people; they speak for them. Art is a weapon against ignorance and hatred and an amanuensis of public awareness... Art opens new doors for learning, understanding, and peace among nations."
H oward David Johnson is a contemporary realistic artist and photographer with a background in the natural sciences and history. David works in a wide variety of mixed media ranging from oil on canvass to digital media. David's realistic illustrations have fabricated appearances in every major bookstore and game shop chain in America as well as magazines and educational texts around the world.
S ome of David's more prestigious clients have included the University of Texas, the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge in England, The Australian Mint, The National Geographic Gild, Paramount Studios, Universal Studios, MGM Studios, Warner Brothers Abode Video, ABC/Disney, CBS Goggle box, PBS TV, The History Aqueduct, Enslow Educational Publishers, Adobe Photoshop, Auto FX, Tree-Gratuitous Greeting, Verizon wireless, Apple IPOD, Penguin, Doubleday (Now Random House), Harlequin Peak Historical Romances, and the History Book of the Month Club, equally well as appearing in periodical publications like Popular Photography and the Wall Street Periodical.
ATraditional fashion portrait of the creative person. [Photo past his son Erich.]
A fter a lifetime of cartoon and painting,David's Traditional Art was exhibited in the British Museum in London in 1996, ( 3 years before he got his first computer ) every bit well as numerous American ones since, such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
W orking in a variety of media David offers his customers a variety of options and more than than three decades of feel. As an illustrator he has non only used the calculator but has been involved in the evolution and marketing of software for Adobe Photoshop. Digital art, Colored pencils, Pastels, Mixed media, & as well Oil Paintings tin also exist commissioned for select projects. Digital analogy projects start at $500.U.S. and group rates are available. David delivers custom made copyright free illustrations & old fashioned customer service when he does piece of work-for-hire. To publish existing pieces of his realistic fine art, David sells licenses starting at simply $99.USD.
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"Those who are enamoured of practise without science are like a airplane pilot who goes into a ship without rudder or compass and never has whatever certainty where he is going. Practice should always exist based upon a sound noesis of theory, of which perspective is the guide and gateway, and without it nothing can be washed well in any kind of painting."
| Howard David Johnson is a contemporary visual artist and lensman with a background in |
| the natural sciences and history. He works in a broad variety of media ranging from traditional |
| oils, pastels and others to cutting edge digital media. He loves mixing media. This site features |
| examples of his Realistic Fine art, including illustration, photography, experimentalism, and art. |
| | The various galleries linked to by the icons to a higher place bear witness many examples of His Realistic Art, and are grouped by theme rather than media. There are likewise sample illustrations from his upcoming books on Celtic Myth and Legend and Globe Myth & Legend. Since boyhood he has passionately copied the erstwhile masters. To create his piece of work, he usually starts with a thematic concept followed by a rough realistic pencil sketch, then followed by his photography, frequently traveling to notice suitable scenes and locations and and then working in his Photography studio with live models from his sketches. He and then assembles a diversity of elements which are realistic and original. As a boy he dedicated his life to art in 1960. From 1965- 1999 he used xeroxes and tracings to make his preliminary photograph montages. This is patterned afterward the manner used by Maxfield Parrish and other 19th century notables. Get-go with a tracing, he then draws or paints from these complex original Computer Photo Montages. Many of these are on display on this web and slated for future completion in a multifariousness of realistic traditional art media. Every bit this happens, the finished piece of work is substituted in the exhibit. Recently he shot hundreds of aeriform photos of clouds at marvelous angles and perspectives and also looking down on the mighty mountains, rivers, and deserts of the American west while flight from Texas to Oregon and dorsum for dynamic source material for realistic flying scenes in upcoming paintings , drawings, and pictures. | ||
Since 1972 when he began his career as a scientific illustrator for the University of Texas he has earned his living illustrating all kinds of books, magazines, CD covers, and all sorts of games, greeting cards, calendars, portraits, murals and the like with his contemporary realistic art... HDJ'southward Realistic Art has appeared in every major bookstore chain and fantasy gaming store in The United States and has been used in educational texts and magazines all over the world. This site features realistic paintings & pictures for the xx-get-go Century including some oil paintings, as well as lots of other heady media such as colored pencil drawings, pastel paintings, acrylic paintings, gouache paintings, watercolor paintings, and pencil drawings, and besides featuring studio, field, & aeriform photography, digital painting and photo-montage and all these media mixed in an assortment of experimental combinations...Working in a wide variety of media to create his realistic art he offers his customers a host of payment and production options. He delivers the rights to these custom made copyright gratis illustrations and former fashioned customer service when he does piece of work-for-rent. He loves to paint custom oil paintings and accepts commissions with down payments starting at i one thousand dollars. On his existing works his low cost license offers beginning at simply 100 dollars. ***** | |||
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Personal Opinion Essays on Realistic Fine art yesterday and today by the creative person.
In improver to his mastery of traditional media, Howard David Johnson now combines drawing, painting, photography, and digital media with more thirty years of experience in these fields to create his Realistic Fine art Num�rica in 21st century paintings and pictures.
Did you lot know the Greek word "Photography" means "Painting with Lite"? Today with the advent of computers it truly lives up to it's name. Due to developments in Art and Technology, a broader definition of painting is needed than that which is plant in common usage.
Announcing Fine art Num�rica -an exciting merger of traditional visual fine art and cut edge technology... a new fine art class for the twenty- outset century... Art Num�rica is non limited to realistic art merely also offers limitless horizons for everything from cartoons to abstractions.
It is the most dramatic evolution in the visual arts since the Renaissance. In the words of Al Jolson in the movie world's first talking picture" You ain't seen nothin' yet!"
"THE More than THINGS CHANGE, THE MORE THEY STAY THE SAME..."
(A Brief essay dealing with attitudes toward Traditional Realistic Paintings, Pastels, Colored Pencils and Art Num�rique )
"Painting, in fine art, the action of laying colour on a surface, or the representation of objects by this means. Considered i of the fine arts"
~Encyclopaedia Britannica.
"Painting. noun. i.) The deed or employment of laying on colors or paints. 2.) The fine art of forming figures or objects in colors on sheet or any other surface, or the fine art of representing to the eye past means of figures and colors whatever object; the piece of work of an illustrator or painter. 3.) A picture; a likeness or resemblance in shape or colors. 4.) Colors laid on. five.) Depiction that raises a brilliant image in the mind; every bit in give-and-take painting.
~ Webster's Unabridged Dictionary of the English language Language
 Pastel, Acrylics, and Colored Pencils combined | Snobbism in the arts is naught new. Some people will tell you lot that oils are the just valid medium for realistic paintings. That Colored Pencil, Digital, and other Realistic Painting and Cartoon Media are not valid for "real" art. Young artists, Don't allow them bother you. Their forerunners used to condemn Pastels earlier they gained credence and called them "crayons" when Johann Alexander Thiele (1685-1752) invented them. Mercilessly disrespectful fine art critics of the time could not terminate the Experimentalists no matter how viciously they attacked and derided them. "Crayon-painting" as it was called in England was adept early on by persecuted pioneers in Switzerland and many other nations. What a debt nosotros owe to these master artists who refused to knuckle under to the pressure of those short-sighted critics during those historic and experimental times. It took until 1870 with the founding of the "Societe` Des Pastellistes" in French republic that respect came at last to these heroic & immortal visual artists. |
| In England the liberation of the Pastellists from slight regard and undeserved boldness came with the offset exhibition of "The Pastel Society" at the Grosvenor Gallery in 1880. Pastel Painters similar Mary Cassat and others from America and other nations forever silenced the snobs with their masterworks and gained recognition at long last for Thiele's invention as a valid art medium. I am persuaded that history will repeat itself. Like Pastels, I believe these wonderful new colored pencils and fifty-fifty Digital Realistic Art Media volition one 24-hour interval receive the recognition they deserve equally powerful mediums of artistic expression just as pastel paintings did. What is your definition of art? Have yous thought about it? Mine is: "annihilation that makes you feel or think." Consider dancing... it tin can be a little skip in the step or rise to the level of the incomparable Russian Ballet. Did y'all know that just the materials alone for a single oil painting cost up to a thousand dollars these days? Even paying the creative person less than minimum wage no one simply the super rich can beget them anymore. Something's got to give. Realistic paintings in oil have been highly prized for centuries and the appeal and following of realistic art is undiminished to this day. Oil paintings featuring Abstract Art and Realistic Art are more often than not the most treasured form of all the visual fine art media and with adept reason. Just snobbish art critics favoring abstruse art have declared that realistic paintings, or illustrations are not fine art for a century. With so many representationalist paintings by so many immortal master artists hanging in the Louvre, the Hermitage, and the British Museum and others I think the disrespect for realistic illustrators that dominated the 20th century is academically ridiculous also as vain and intolerant, insisting theirs is the merely valid opinion. What is your definition of Fine art? I believe almost any form of human expression tin exist raised to the level of "high art" especially visual art and Realistic illustration... | |
| The item reveals Realistic fine art and abstract art combined | Past my own definition of art, which is: "anything that makes you experience or call back" virtually abstract paintings are not "real fine art" to me personally, because abstract paintings usually neither make me experience or recollect, unremarkably focusing obsessively on technique and avoiding any coherent content. I normally describe a complete blank mentally and emotionally when I look at them. In 1979 the Houston Metropolitan Museum of Art displayed a triptych of 3 giant paintings they paid 50 g dollars for- three blank white canvasses entitled "untitled". And so there was "The incredible new artistic Genius" with an I.Q. of 62 ...Congo the chimpanzee with his gala New York fine art exhibition...an elaborate prank played on the Snobbish American Art critics most a generation ago by enquiry scientists in the field of primatology. Imagine how upset they were when he created one of his "ingenious masterpieces" right before their optics. ( My Source for this is the Time Life Scientific discipline Library book entitled "The Primates". ) |
| Fine art education has been almost completely removed from American Schools every bit a result of generations of this kind of fabulous nonsense contributing to America'south cultural illiteracy crisis. Now, the works of Leonardo Da Vinci, Michaelangelo, and other notables are being removed from schoolhouse libraries. Afterwards generations of this, most American college graduates today cannot name fifty-fifty one living visual artist, abstract or realistic. At that place is no way that mandating more math, requiring more reading, or scheduling more science will replace what we accept lost as a civilisation. What is your definition of Art? ~HDJ ***** | |
| Annotation: Abstract Paintings by Congo the Chimpanzee outsold Warhol and Renoir by over 25,000 dollars in June 2005 at a London fine art auction. Born in 1954, Congo created more than 400 drawings and paintings between the ages of two and four. He died in 1964 of tuberculosis. | |
The Rebirth of Realism
More thoughts on realistic art yesterday and today by the artist
Art History has entered a new era with the birth of Fine art Num�rica, or digital art media in the 21st century. Artists never stop exploring with mediums. Artists have been developing techniques, experimenting with different tools since at least twenty- five thousand years ago, when the first creative person picked upward a charred stick and scratched a motion picture out on the wall of his cave. You lot'd retrieve everything would have been tried by now, but it hasn't. Exploring new mediums this very day is simply as heady, simply as total of freshness and newness as information technology ever was.
| Photography, Cartoon, Painting and Fine art Num�rica combined | The cosmos of Realistic art has been the goal of nearly artists since the dawn of civilisation. Realistic art was the pride of ancient Hellenic republic. The world'south greatest museums are total of realistic art. Realistic fine art WAS art until the advent of the abstract expressionist movement in the twentieth century. The coming of the photographic camera in the nineteenth century changed realistic art forever. Suddenly, realistic art was not the only way to create realism in portraits and historical records. The work of the realistic artist was suddenly made into an expensive luxury. The political power of the realistic artist was broken and they were no longer an indispensable fellow member of society. Hostility to the creators of realistic art goes dorsum to aboriginal times and the jealousy of advisers to the Pharaohs and others who were not able to spend as much fourth dimension with their rulers as their portraitists. Although with the aid of photographs, realistic art achieved levels of excellence undreamed of, the realistic art motility of the late nineteenth century was curt. |
| None of these people earning their living creating realistic art could compete with the speed and low cost of photographic portraiture. Adamant to survive, bang-up realistic artists similar Pablo Picasso ingeniously turned inward and began to explore things that could non exist photographed in a new schoolhouse of art, abstract expressionism. The solar day of the fine art superstars had arrived. It was now largely just a hobby to abstract and realistic artists alike. Illustration, considering of advances in printing technology enabled an aristocracy few to earn a living with their realistic art. These illustrators working in realistic art media were condemned and ridiculed in much the same way Europe's smashing symphonic composers were condemned for working in motility pictures after fleeing the Nazis during World War Ii. The rift betwixt realistic and abstruse art grew wider and wider. The universities and key media usually sided with the abstract camp and derided anyone working in any realistic art media declaring boldly that realistic art was non "real" fine art. Immortal giants of realistic fine art such as Maxfield Parrish were mistreated their entire lives. They were accused of selling out for creating beautiful pieces of realistic fine art to earn a living. The mental attitude that the true artist must suffer and starve and dice in poverty became a rule. At that place were the Abstract fine art superstars, the professional realistic illustrators, and the hobbyists who, although cut off from gainful employment and social influence still recognized their creative gifts every bit a calling rather than a profession. | |
Early abstract art masters proved themselves every bit realistic artists earlier delving into realms of the intangible. They had to do this at that time to prove themselves because of the challenges they faced from the establishment for going against the condition quo. In the latter part of the 20th century, realistic artists like HDJ were challenged to do abstract art to bear witness themselves every bit shown in the example to a higher place (Deirdre of the sorrows). After realistic art grooming was abased in nearly schools and things like splattering paint in fits of rage were deemed more than than plenty.
| Drawing, painting, photography & digital artistry | By the end of the 20th century something equally destructive and ridiculous as nailing a pack of cigarettes to a shoe was considered fine fine art simply not realistic paintings. Fashions in fine art accept often been equally dizzy equally fashions in ladies hats. Equally the century drew to a close, many people had had enough. The realistic revolt was at mitt. The rebirth of realism was fueled by the advent of the digital era. Now, for the offset time in about two centuries, an creative person or illustrator could earn a decent living again with his realistic art. This is historic. Realistic art is not going to become away, particularly at present that photography has truly merged with traditional realistic visual fine art. Photography comes from the Greek words pregnant "painting with light". At present with the advent of digital media the capability of realistic art has become almost limitless, truly, "painting with light". The merger of all the world's art forms to realize the potential of motion pictures has come now to still realistic art media. |
The xx- first century is already seeing a new renaissance in the arts because of the world wide web. There has never been anything like it. Abstract fine art, calculator fine art, photographic art, and realistic art are continuing to exist separate schools of art but are also blending to create exciting new horizons. Although Digital art does offer completely new horizons to the creative person in the 21st century it does non mean the terminate of our time honored fine art traditions. Instead, information technology offers additional ways to go on these traditions and schools of thought fresh and alive.
~ HDJ
Essay V
Sexuality, Violence, Morality, and their relationships with the Arts in 21st century American Society
A example for the sacredness, purity, and beauty of the man class
A cursory personal opinion essay past the artist
In our 21st century western social club the disparity between the moral attitudes toward images and actions is astonishing to me and I will examine in this article only how unfair they really have become and how "political correctness" is destroying our cultural heritage.
In history, the Classical or Greco-Roman school of art is distinguished past the notion that the man form is the ultimate arena for artistic expression. Unclothed figures were very mutual in Classical art and their culture was very comfortable with it in general. The Victorians in contrast have always stood out in my mind for their extreme prudishness and puritanicalism. They invented the tablecloth to forbid men from looking at a tabular array'southward legs because they feared a table leg might make men think of sexual activity. In spite of this, 19th century Victorian Art did let some unclothed figures in statues and paintings within certain bounds. One of the principal attractions of fairy paintings for the Mid-Victorians was that they made possible highly realistic and erotic pictures of unclad females that would accept otherwise been inadmissible. In the 20th century the sexual revolution eliminated all of these traditional boundaries. I tin see how the radical transformation of society by the full liberation of the hidden was a bit too much for most people. In 21st century America yet, the sight of a healthy partially unclad woman is taboo even as an innocent or religious depiction in the visual arts.
A moral pendulum swinging as well far once again?
I find this very interesting because they fashion American society is so comfy with violence- even children viewing extreme violence and gore on television and in move pictures. It'south terrible- disembowelments, exploding heads with splattering blood and guts, cut off arms and legs are deemed just fine for prime fourth dimension children's viewing. Merely not to worry- the profanity has been edited out. It seems besides arbitrary to me. If the human body is torn apart or cut to pieces information technology is all right. Desecration of the human trunk is embraced or tolerated while appreciation or adoration even in art, is condemned. I think the human form is sacred.
The average American child sees 20,000 violent deaths on boob tube alone past the age of 10.
Later all the outrageous and horrible events that take happened in America surrounding the plough of the millennium I am amazed that the only existent public out cry about anything has come nigh over a harmless matter in a politico'southward individual life and a stray breast at a national sporting result. I also find it interesting that the religious establishment in America feels that the healthy uncovered female person human body is a muddied, filthy thing to be ashamed of. I disagree.
Since the source for this stigma about images of women is supposed to be the influence on our society's laws by the sacred writings of the Judeo-Christians, I present to you lot the idea that this is not what these actually teach and they are also being treated as arbitrarily as a buffet line and will use illustrations. This attitude comes from Jesus' saying: "If a human being fifty-fifty look at a woman to animalism after her, he has already committed adultery in his heart." By this same standard, just thinking about robbing the poor and the elderly is a sin, just in our society the act is considered "a good business move". Don't misunderstand me, he taught that his commandment was to dearest ane some other, and basically that if you did that the ceremonial law was fulfilled. A more positive approach; if you dearest someone you won't murder them, falsely accuse them, etc., etc., If your heart is total of covetousness for a woman, a car or annihilation it is probable you will transgress this law in practice. Cheating, stealing, torture, and even murder in actual practice are taken in pace by our social club, but seeing a woman's left bust exposed is an outrage. If the 10 Commandments are the standard we're going by as they say-
What well-nigh the other 9?
Children are diligently taught to dishonor their parents on every "family" idiot box show. It is taboo now- yes, it is really considered wrong to portray a skillful father in American movies and television with just the rarest of exceptions. What is so terribly wrong about a portrayal of a good dad? To me, this is an outrage. Stealing the retirements of thousands of citizens who have worked hard for them all their lives is also considered "a good business move". What about "thou shalt not murder"? (Interestingly, it doesn't say" kill"{ harag } in the original Hebrew text, { Exodus twenty:13 } only "murder"{ ratsach }. ) In Nazi Germany, 6 million people- Jews, Christians, and politicals were secretly murdered in the death camps, but in mod America, more than than twoscore 1000000 babe boys and girls have been publicly murdered by willing citizens in ballgame clinics and we call that a "choice". Of course it is a pick- choosing to murder a helpless kid! If that was called the Holocaust, how will history gauge us? I was told by an ballgame advocate that I am wrong, that a kid still in the womb is not a human beingness- but a fetus. My wife was born in 1959 when her mother was four months and two weeks pregnant- is she a fetus? Of form not! She is a man being- a wonderful wife, mother and accolade winning teacher. The Nazis felt if they declared that the Jews were not human, it would exist much easier to mass-murder them. This Nazi-style de-humanization of unborn children is necessary to deaden the censor before murder. Judeo-Christian morality, and that'due south what nosotros're talking nigh here every bit the nearly influential source of America'due south laws, ONLY justifies killing in self-defense. The kid in the womb is defenseless. I observe this astonishing that nosotros every bit a society tin can embrace such such horrific and gruesome acts and then brand an issue over a nude painting or statue. I But bring these upwards as an examples of the disparity betwixt society's acceptance or tolerance of these violent and gruesome things I've mentioned to dissimilarity them to the intolerance of the sight of a peaceful adult female's uncovered bust celebrated for information technology'due south natural beauty in an innocent setting through the visual arts.
Why is the sight of a naked man's chest considered to exist decent and not a woman's? I think in that location is a disparity hither too in our attitude toward images. If the sight of a woman's chest is an outrage why is a homo'due south permissible in Whatsoever situation? I am told sure works of Leonardo Da Vinci are pornographic now because of a nipple only I see romance novel covers in the grocery store with photos of naked men climbing in bedroom windows to commit adultery-why are those considered acceptable? If images are wrong considering at that place is a take a chance a man might think of sex, why are "romance" novels written glorifying vile acts of sexual expose for NO OTHER REASON simply dingy thoughts acceptable? Why are sleazy soap operas on television bachelor to children with sexually explicit scenes glorifying adultery acceptable?
The answer is unproblematic- its double standard.
As a man, I believe that women are the brightest and loveliest of all of GOD's creations. The sight of a healthy young partially uncovered girl on television even for a split 2nd is considered a CRISIS and we hear public outrage? Implying the human torso itself is filthy; Call up about information technology. Since the ground of this sight of a healthy human body taboo is supposed to exist of Judeo-Christian religious origin, I want to debunk this outrageous doctrine that the human trunk is filthy. In the Bible'southward start book, Genesis, it says, "they were naked and were non ashamed" and it teaches u.s. that men and women were "made in the image of GOD". To follow this line of reasoning, GOD would also have to be filthy. Instance closed. I don't think what I perceive to be the crowning achievement of GOD'southward cosmos, the adult female - is filthy, but is instead pure and cute.
What I believe to be GOD's greatest cosmos is considered filthy, and not people'southward minds?
What's incorrect with this motion-picture show?
These outrageous boundaries chosen by our society are then poorly thought out that Michelangelo's statue of David is at present accounted pornography and books with such immortal works of art are existence removed from our public school libraries because of "politically correct" activists. I'm not suggesting that we remove these boundaries once more like in the 1970'south, Heaven forbid! Only that these newest ones are sick conceived and badly placed and I would personally prefer to render to the traditional ones and avoid all these extremes.
~ H.D. Johnson
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