From The Beginning of Venus to the statue of David, lots of the world’s most recognisable artworks depict nude folks.
However regardless of being artworks, nude statues and work are sometimes mistaken by social media algorithms as actual folks, which means they’re blocked or censored.
Now, the Vienna Vacationer Board has taken issues into its personal arms, launching a web page on OnlyFans to show the nude statues and work featured within the Leopold Museum, Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna and Naturhistorisches Museum Vienna and Albertina.
‘Vienna and its artwork establishments are among the many casualties of this new wave of prudishness – with nude statues and well-known artworks blacklisted underneath social media pointers, and repeat offenders even discovering their accounts quickly suspended,’ it defined.
‘That is why we determined to place the capital’s world-famous “express” artworks on OnlyFans.’
The Vienna Vacationer Board has taken issues into its personal arms, launching a web page on OnlyFans to show the nude statues and work featured within the Leopold Museum, Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna and Naturhistorisches Museum Vienna and Albertina
Venus of Willendorf, a Venus figurine estimated to have been made round 25,000 years in the past, is featured on the OnlyFans web page
The bizarre choice to launch a web page on OnlyFans got here after well-known artworks had been ‘blacklisted’ on TikTok, Instagram and Fb for holding ‘lewd’ content material, in response to the Vienna Vacationer Board.
Chatting with NBC Information, Helena Hartlauer, a spokesperson for the Vienna Vacationer Board, defined: ‘Proper now, an algorithm determines what’s okay to see and what’s not.
‘And it positively shouldn’t decide our cultural legacy.’
The artworks featured on the OnlyFans web page embrace these from well-known artists together with Egon Schiele, Richard Gerstl, Koloman Moser and Amedeo Modigliani.
‘Moreover altering the face of artwork eternally, they’re additionally recognized for his or her unflinching depictions of the nude human physique,’ the Vienna Vacationer Board defined.
‘So it hardly comes as any shock to be taught that a few of their artworks fell foul of the censors over 100 years in the past.’
Apart from serving as a enjoyable method to attract consideration to their exhibitions, the Vienna Vacationer Board hopes the OnlyFans web page will assist to spark the dialog about censorship on social media.
‘We have determined to attempt to begin a dialog about this matter as a result of we thought it is very Vienna,’ Ms Hartlauer added.
‘As a result of Vienna has at all times been a really open minded metropolis. We imagine it is vital for Vienna establishments generally to have some house for various concepts, and we’re not afraid of the bare reality.’
A subscription to the OnlyFans web page prices $4.99/month (£3.62/month) and features a free ticket to the featured museums the place consumer can see the artworks within the flesh.
A subscription to the OnlyFans web page prices $4.99/month (£3.62/month) and features a free ticket to the featured museums the place consumer can see the artworks within the flesh
In response to Fb’s nudity coverage, pictures of nude artworks are allowed on its platforms.
‘We perceive that nudity may be shared for a wide range of causes, together with as a type of protest, to lift consciousness a few trigger or for academic or medical causes,’ the coverage states.
‘We additionally permit pictures of work, sculptures and different artwork that depicts nude figures.’
MailOnline has contacted Fb for remark.