"Is hentai art?"

You can't really exclude it while including other pieces of art and maintain a fair, consistent definition of art

Art's a concept created by humans, it doesn't fit into a neat box

No better combination

Art is an individuals interpration of an individuals self expression

Through a creative medium

I'd say Erotica is art, nudity and sexuality can be displayed in a tasteful manner that isn't pornography

But hentai is pornography so I wouldn't say it's art

The point of hentai is to crank one out to anime tiddies you aren't sitting there going "gee willikers this artist really wanted me to examine the beauty of the female form"

disagreed.

Okay so what would you say instead?

i disagree

About what

what you wrote..

Why

I say nothing and lower my gaze like a humble muslim

@Doktor Goon i believe so?

Like just on principle or what

Is hentai art?

But what's the difference between hentai and non-erotic nudity in form?

It's all up to you taste - to your perception as the observer

So in the end, art is just entirely self-defined

Hentai is explicitly pornography

Mexico still uses the Roman Salute

So are any 18th century nude paintings

@Light There is a long standing artistic tradition in western civilization of the nude form including that of the young. The difference between beauty, innocence, and virginity (promise of future fertility) and sexuality (opportunity in the present for consumption) is not a difficult one to judge by triangulation with traditional works of art. If there is a question there is no question.

It's a long standing degenerate tradition

Not all tradition is good.

its not degenerate

nudity in traditionalist sense did not promote and embrace the same things current day "nudity" embraces and expresses

Disgusting = degenerate

To say nudity is inherently pornographic is dumb. Looking at something like the Birth of Venus and saying that's pornographic because she's naked is absurd.

Pornography has intent behind it

Plenty of imagery intended for sexual stimulation isn't even overtly sexual

sex

Sexuality is a part of the human condition and it can be represented in art

Degeneracy = Having lost the physical, mental, or moral qualities considered normal and desirable, thus showing evidence of decline on these sectors. What's desirable or even normal, is not always good, and thus degeneracy can often not be disgusting. @Ater Votum

Staying to the qualities that were once considered normal and desirable would be extremely stupid.

Degeneracy as a term itself is stupid.