Several years ago, in Korea, it was a huge scandal that a married couple who both worked for a middle school as art teachers uploaded their blog with their naked pictures. Lots of parents whose their children went to the school showed outrages about it and mad at the couple. Likewise, some people think that no matter what they call “art”, there should be a limitation to express. However, I personally disagree with that idea and also believe that no government restrictions should be upon those artistic activities.

First, the reason why the freedom to express artists own ideas should not be banned from government is that government has no right to control over people’s creativity. Government first was originated to deal with citizen’s convenience such as administration or group interests. Even though the role of government tremendously has increased in recent years, restricting, particularly people’s right to express in an art form is considered to be totally beyond its main role. Therefore, letting the government constitute human beings freedom in art does not make sense.

Second, even though government prevents artists from expressing themselves, the criteria the government would apply to might be too subjective or biased to certain group such as conservatives. The definition of art varies from people to people. Without clear definition of art, government neither can ban some art activities  nor can have specific standards to impose legal restrictions. Consequently, because of ambiguity of illegal art, it is not desirable that government demands artists not to express their own ideas.