Porn Paintings Perturb Public School Parents

Normally we'd call the parents uptight for hating on artistic nudes, but these are a tad more hardcore than things you'd find in the Met. Just because it's oil on canvas doesn't mean it'll fit comfortably in a gallery near a school.

Then again, they're just paintings! And we think each of them captures a moment of great tension or displays some dynamic, eye-catching shapes—facets of porn that definitely deserve more attention from the public. In the heat of the smutty moment, small details might slip by your furiously masturbating hands eyes, but now we're confronted with the way an anchoring pornstar holds the gangbangee, or a single sock accidentally left on a woman's foot.

The artist, Nick Weber, says his work is nothing worse than what people see regularly, "people getting shot on TV," but given that we're getting physically excited by these images, we can see why some folk might be upset. We wonder how much more metaphoric or impressionistic Weber would have to make these in order for them to be deemed acceptable—would he have to get on Georgia O'Keeffe's level before the controversy died down? We trust he wouldn't do anything like that. Stick to your guns, Nick Weber; stick to your sexy, oily guns.

· See more of Weber's work at PornPaintings.net (pornpaintings.net)
· Via Animal New York (animalnewyork.com)