Should Art Be Censored Research Paper

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Art is a diverse field in which a variety of people impose their creativity to form a powerful work that would captivate the eye of many people. The diversity of Art would bring many ideas that Art enthusiast would enjoy, but they would be many works that art enthusiast would criticize because they feel the work is offensive, unethical to society. However, how can an artist work be sensor without violating his freedom to re-create his ideas. This leads us to the situation of what leads to the censorship of art, and what rules do art critics follow to determine which art work should be censored or not. Therefore, this allows us to further analyze the motive of art critics to know why they censor an art work by analyzing both the positive and …show more content…

This means that art censorship is outdated because the people involved in censoring art cannot control all art, so they cannot be viewed by the general audience. Therefore, this shows how art censorship in general is outdated which means that all art should not be censored because there is no motive to ban all arts. This shows how censorship only realizes on “bias” views which shows how there is no rules to follow when banning works of art. Also, how can art critics ban a work of art that is based on opinions of artist. These opinions are just thoughts which shows that works can be “powerful and full of motives”( Gund 66) but cannot change a current situation. This means that art works are just expressions of other people feelings in which the art critics cannot take the freedom of speech away just because they feel that the work is too explicit for society. Modern technology allows artist to post their work on the internet which means that several more people would be able to view their work before its censored. Thus, this shows that censorship in art is not possible no more because art critics would still find a way to express their views one way or the other

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