Marcel's Art Studio

Finished just on time for Mother’s Day!
Graphite on paper, 10”x16”.

this is what I received this morning from Artwanted.com. Below is my response..

ArtWanted.com
Marcel -
One of our website moderators has recently reviewed your portfolio and found that one of your images [Not Yet] does not meet our website display guidelines and has been removed. These guidelines can be found on our policies page, but here is a portion of our image policy for your reference...

PROHIBITED ARTWORK
"Artwork that is not permitted on ArtWanted includes, but is not limited to: Any artwork containing full or frontal nudity, ge****ls, female ni***es, naked butts or butt cracks, sex/erotic/pornographic artwork of any kind, extreme gore or any other artwork that may be considered adult/mature/offensive in nature. Borderline subject material that is not specifically mentioned above, may also be removed. We reserve the right to modify/delete any artwork posted to our website."

If you feel your image does comply with our policies and you want our staff to review it for a second opinion, please reply to this e-mail and attach your image for review.

ArtWanted Premium Members have a 'private gallery' feature, where these types of images can be posted without being removed. Also, members with an ArtWanted Personal Website are allowed to upload any image without restrictions.

We have seen some amazing pieces of art from talented artists that unfortunately have to be removed due to our policies. We hope you understand and can continue to share your other images on ArtWanted.

If you have any questions or comments, please let us know. Thank You.

— ArtWanted Staff

AND HERE IS MY RESPONSE:

To the Inquisition personnel of Art Wanted,

I have been with you since 2005, my figure paintings and drawing got me awards at Salmagundi, got published in over 15 books and magazines such as American Artist. Never was my figure artworks judged as offensive or even censored.
Is the work of Francis Bacon, Kacere or Sandorfi offensive? To whom?
Art is about freedom of expression (I guess it is protected by the first amendment, isn't it?)..
Do not call yourself an art site if you implement a censorship on ni***es and other women behinds, how pitiful; you may hide your judgement under your policy, but it is still a sad and despicable way of looking at artists works.
I will not longer be a concern to your administrators and censors, as I have removed all of my images from your site.

Marcel Franquelin

"Might", graphite on paper, 12"x 20"

an other old drill put to rest!
"Creek", oil on board, 8"x10".

Finally done! This was an exercise for my students, working with whites and reds without catastrophic smearing..
“Red Ribbons”, oil on board, 8”x 10”

Happy to hear!

Congratulations are in order! Three of my students harvested awards!

“Monkey Business”, oil on Artefex board, 12”x 16”.

Finally done!
“Lace”, graphite on paper, 12”x 15”.

Work in progress, still a lot to do…
“Lace”, graphite on paper.

This concludes our March drill on lettering, a rather intense exercise...

Here is an oldie from the Sandy storm year….
“Candles”, oil on board, 5”x 7”.

https://www.marcelsartstudio.net/2023/03/09/bond/

Bond Finished just on time! "Bond", graphite on paper, 8"x 12". A commissioned work of my grandson holding hi Dad's finger until falling asleep.