Realism

a. In my own words, realistic art is art that portrays reality to a ridiculous point of precision and accuracy. It captures every aspect of the subject as well as its surroundings on a piece of paper or canvas or whatever media is being used by using different marking tools.

b. Plato basically defined good art as ideal forms existing non-materialistically while being morally enlightening. Anything less than that would not be acceptable art in the incredibly confusing mind possessed by none other than  the great philosopher Plato.

c. Plato would probably say something along the lines of "I do not approve of this art because it is a disgrace to the ideal forms of objects in a non-materialistic existence." Basically they are an abstracted form and anything but the ideal form is not acceptable to Plato for some odd philosphical reason only know to Plato himself.

d. Aristotle would define good art as art that imitated certain aspects of life. These certain aspects would be anything from circles to leaves to dogs to trees.  Aristotle found realistic art to be very enjoyable to view and well developed.

e. In my personal philosophy "obscene art" is not a contradiction of terms because essentially art is in the eyes of the beholder.  Art is meant to provoke some type of emotion and the thought of something being obscene is an emotion. So art, according to my personal philosophy, cannot be obscence because obscenity is essentially an emotional opinion.

f. In my opinion, vivid sexual images in art is not obscene at all. Violence, poverty and things of the nature I find rather obscence because of the morbid nature or the content. If sexuality is portrayed in art then there is some type of love between the two, or more, subjects portrayed in the art, unless it is a scene of rape or a non-conscentual act.

g. An artist from The Drawing Center that relates to my art piece is Eduardo Stupia. His pieces all have a massive amount of detail and lines going every which way the show a type of movement. It relates to my concept in the sense that life is very hectic and it seems like every decision is crazy and makes your mind turn every which way while somehow coming out as a beautiful blurr. The detail of his peices amaze me and I applaud his ability to do such detailed pieces.