THE NUDE: Beauty, Grace and Form.
Celebrating the Human Figure
Celebrating the Human Figure
- First, why we draw The need to express ourselves through drawing is primal, mention2. From the prehistoric time until the earliest forms of civilization, naked humans have been drawn for different reasons.Nude paintings bring out different meanings in distinct contexts that take away the nakedness to introduce a deeper symbolic meaning.For example: Some are made for historical, allegorical, or religious reasons, while other forms of nude art can be used for decorations for your house wall.The Western culture recognizes and categorizes them as either art, pornographic, or informative.
- Why the female? Whether moral or immoral, female nakedness in art has been deemed to represent beauty, fertility, and welfare. Examples are Titan's Venus of Urbino, Birth of Venus by Sandro Botticelli, (The joy of life) by Henri Matisse.
- Artists also craft nude paintings to express emotions and feelings that viewers can connect with, viewing the nakedness differently. Artists also view nakedness as a uniting factor for humans no matter the race because everyone shares the same organs regardless of what race you are or background. Human nakedness can also symbolize human values like innocence which a pregnant woman can symbolize very well. An example is the painting called Pregnant Maria by Alice Neel.