The president of Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts personally painted nudes for normal teachers and was criticized for being vulgar. How would you feel if your boyfriend was a nude model?

To quote a line from "The Story of the Editorial Office": Once nudity becomes art, it is the most holy. Morality is the most despicable once it degenerates into hypocrisy.

How would you feel if your boyfriend/girlfriend was a nude model?

This actually depends on the individual. Some people will care about it, while others will not care. In fact, there are also painters whose wives or husbands are nude models. This is not surprising.

The root cause of this incident in Sichuan and the United States is actually the Internet and publicity. As far as nude sketching is concerned, generally, you either directly use existing paintings as demonstrations and explanations, or you draw models with clothes on (this is no longer nude sketching). Even if you want to paint nude paintings, most of them use plaster models or silicone models instead. Real nudes are usually painted only in private studios. The problem with this incident in Sichuan and the United States lies in its publicity and Internet communication. Not only does this have a bad impact in our country, it will also be criticized in Europe and the United States. European and American movies have ratings, let alone this kind of complete nudity. Our country’s requirements are definitely more stringent.

Art and obscenity have always been a huge controversy in academic circles. Actually, I don’t think it’s that difficult, it just depends on the audience. Popular art targets a broad audience, which covers a wide range of ages, genders, and cultural levels. Such popular art must be based on a wide range of ideological and moral concepts, and be created on this basis. Niche art, on the other hand, only targets specific groups and has requirements for age, aesthetics, and cultural level. Niche art will inevitably not be widely disseminated. This is a general rule in the civilized world, not a special rule imposed by me or our country. For example, according to movie ratings in Europe and the United States, children are not allowed in movie theaters that are not suitable for children. This is true even for art exhibitions. Most art exhibitions are all-age exhibitions, and a few art exhibitions stipulate that children are not allowed to enter. What Sichuan Mei did is to disseminate niche art on a large scale (even if the video was not deliberately arranged by him, nude sketching in a public place is still worthy of criticism), and the problem is of course serious.