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The Unclothed Body: What Is Nude Art?

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Art and its topics are getting broader and broader and it has became a great inspiration for an artist to express his point of view. There are so many forms of art like paintings, drawings, sculptures and so on and there are so many kinds of art such as landscape art, still life art, portrait art, nude art and more. Among hundreds of topics, unclothed body is one of the greatest topic that inspires artists of all time. So what is nude art? Nude art is a piece of art work, of any kind, that content male or female or both with no clothes or with garment that covers just some little parts on their bodies. The unclothed body gave the artist more room to express emotions such as tension, power, anger, desperation, expression as well as movement. …show more content…

According to the History Channel: "The first modern Olympics were held in Athens, Greece, in 1896. In the opening ceremony, King Georgios I and a crowd of 60,000 spectators welcomed 280 participants from 13 nations (all male), who would compete in 43 events, including track and field, gymnastics, swimming, wrestling, cycling, tennis, weightlifting, shooting and fencing.". For that reason, athletics, dancers and warriors became the main subject in nude art as the symbol of youth and power .Terracotta statute of the Diadoumenos (youth tying a fillet around his head) is one of a great example among hundreds of nude sculptures of Ancient Greek Art. The Diadoumenos, one of the most popular Ancient Greek sculptures, is nude statue of a young athletic tying a fillet around his head after winning an athletic contest. Female in the ancient Greek period were not allowed to do anything such as attending or participating in the Olympic Games, but just staying at home and taking care of children so there was no nude female figure at the …show more content…

without them nothing would be graceful or pleasing. They gave people friendliness, uprightness of character, sweetness and conversation...They were presented as three beautiful virgins and were either completely naked or clothed in some fine, transparent fabric..." (Peter Paul Rubens). Nude art nowadays and contemporary arts are still inspired by nude figures. In our time, nude art is getting more and more popular and it appears in some new forms of art such as performance art and photography art. The depictions of nudity art are getting more and more popular that blurring the delicate thin line between the truly artistically value in art, including sexual desire, and the purpose of pornography. In our modern society today, human seems not to pay much attention to God, Goddess and Heroes like they used with their arts. Nowadays, artists use nude figures to focus more into sexual desire in an inappropriate way that causes confusion between nude art and sexual pornography. Today, viewers are not only viewing the nude figures with human private parts from the outside but also the inside of them as well as with the most extremely provocative

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