The Body
The nude is about truth. This is the human species in its most honest, real, unadulterated form and endless in its ability to inspire art.The human body has been central to painting sculpture and photography since images were first created on the walls of Paleolithic caves.
The words “naked and nude” are often used interchangeably. In fact they could not be more different. Naked suggests an unclothed person and has a sense of embarrassment or shame connected to it. Stark naked, bare, unclothed, disrobed, stripped, unclad all suggest the taking away of something. Something missing. Something diminished. Nude, on the other hand, projects a sense of power, control, and all things natural. After all this is really who we are. We remain endlessly fascinated with the body because we all have one, and it gives us a point of comparison.
In an age that is ever increasing in its artifice, its digital representation, its virtual screen-based doctored reality, the unclothed human figure remains the only truth about our species. If you were to line up ten people in the nude, you might have a difficult time determining all of the socio-economic cues that are reinforced by clothing.
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