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HOARE: HARD ART "My greatest compliment to date came when I was once described as "Mapplethorpe with a paintbrush stuck up his arse"!" The artist was born in a small town in Somerset, England, population 650! He escaped to London at the age of 16 to study General Art & Design and then Fashion Promotion & Illustration. He later worked as an illustrator for "The Gay Men's Press" (GMP) in London. "The whole point of my work is to challenge the fine line between art and porn. To do that I have to use fairly obvious photographic porn imagery, otherwise the concept doesn't work. I consciously work towards keeping the crudeness of photographic porn - it's actually very difficult to get the balance right - if I artistically overwork a photo beyond all recognition it completely loses it's raw sexiness. As a 'pretentious' comparison, Andy Warhol used photographic imagery of Marilyn Monroe and Elvis Presley as inspiration. These works were obviously derived from photos - he just turned them into art!! I've just decided (with tongue wedged firmly in cheek) to do the same thing with porn. That's what's so appealing - don't you agree???
"I want my art to stimulate the imagination through the groin not the heart! I always say that if 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder', then 'pornography is in the groin of the beholder'!! This work is art for voyeurs - it plays with the idea that everyone sees things through different eyes; re-opens that 'age-old' debate, is it art or is it porn? - to quote the artist, "I s'pose it just depends whether you happen to have a bottle of poppers stuck up your nose at the time!!" "My work is confrontational ...but just because I'm inspired by porn doesn't make me any less of an accomplished artist. After all, isn't everything 'us boys' love inspired by cock?! I'm not interested in re-creating another Mona-fucking-Lisa....who'd wanna wank over her??? So what if my work will never hang in the Louvre - stick it on your bedroom wall and 'shoot your load' over it and I'm a happy man!!! If my work gives someone a 'hard on' then I've achieved my aim! Art that stimulates the emotions - fuck that - this is art to stimulate the groin! If this is my 'fifteen minutes of fame' then I wanna get people 'cumming' in ten!" For
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