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* [[Nightwatching]] is allegedly about Rembrandt's angst whilst painting his most famous work. Being a painter, this manifests as an awful lot of sex, drinking, sex, swearing and sex. And sitting around naked.
* Happened a lot in Bravo's [[Reality Show]] ''Work of Art'', about finding the next great artist. Taken to new heights when one contestant actually came on his artwork [[Fetish Fuel|(the piece was about the time when he came at a Disney movie).]]
* In the 1970s, there was a deliberate movement to create 'Art Porn' films, the most famous of which was ''[[The Story of O]]''.
** The work of [[Andrew Blake]] from the late 1980s onward continued this movement, to the point that some of his "artistic pornographic" films are [[True Art Is Incomprehensible|''so'' artistic that they stop being very sexy]].
* The American film distribution company Vinegar Syndrome argued that while they were indeed established to restore and distribute X-rated media, they emphasized that they are not a part of the pornographic industry, stating: "We are film archivists who happen to focus on preserving sex films" and that they curate and restore those they deem to "provide value" rather than the run-of-the-mill DVD one can find off a sex shop.
* One of the counter-arguments brought in favour of the controversial 2020 French coming-of-age-film ''Mignonnes (Cuties)'' when Netflix was indicted by a grand jury in Tyler County, Texas for distributing child pornography (due in part to a questionable scene showing the protagonist's genitals) was the award it garnered in the Sundance Film Festival, arguing that the film had redeeming artistic value contrary to
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