The Academy of Fine Arts protested on Wednesday against the censorship of works on social networks because of nudity represented, which
"considerably"
hinders the
"promotion of art on these essential media"
.
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The networks
“do not allow nudity or suggested nudity”
,
“thus making, through their algorithms, no difference between works of art and selfies and other personal shots of nudes worn for all to see”
, protests the Academy in a press release.
And to cite examples of censored works, such as the paintings
The Origin of the World
by Gustave Courbet or
Liberty Leading the People
by Eugène Delacroix.
This
"grotesque situation requires a legitimate reaction"
and the Academy calls
"to ask the question of the freedom of the dissemination of information and the means to be implemented to protect it"
.
The Academy of Fine Arts is an advisory body of the public authorities.
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This question has been agitating the Fine Arts community in recent years.
The tourist office in Vienna, Austria, stood out last year with a great provocation to open the debate on the role of algorithms and tech giants in art.
Works such as nudes by the painter Egon Schiele or paintings by Modigliani, censored on social networks, had found thanks to the Viennese tourist office a second life on the OnlyFans platform, known for its sexually explicit content.