Cross-posted from Pando Daily:
The Daily Dot reports:
“On Friday, Vogue’s creative director Grace Coddington posted her first photo [sic] to Instagram: a nude cartoon selfie of her sitting in a beach chair. It was a promotional photo for the Paddle8 ‘No Clothes‘ auction, but it apparently violated Instagram’s terms of service, which prohibit nudity. On Saturday, her account was removed.”
Artist Anna Gensler, the photographer Petra Collins and Rihanna have also had direct or indirect run-ins with Instagram over various depictions of nudity, including Gensler’s drawings of gross dudes.
Here’s the drawing:
Following the outcry, Instagram backed down. Yay for cartoon boobs and cartoon dot nipples!
But now that we have Instagram back on its heels, as it were, I wonder — as a boundary-pushing artist myself — whether we can push transgressive/obscene/nude cartoon art even further:
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“as a boundary-pushing artist myself”
Post I.E.D. full frontal nudity as “boundary-pushing” porn – LOL. I agree you are a boundary pushing artist in general but if you think that is boundary-pushing porn you have not yet even begun to conceive of the true depths of depravity I have seen drawn on the net. … For one, you are still using only humans – such limited imagination/depravity as an upper-bound already set from the start with that.
I’d stick to political cartoons and the like where you are still definitely boundary-pushing.