...Hannah Wilke’s influence can be seen in contemporary art performance by artists such as Milo Moiré and Deborah de Robertis. Both of these artists have used nudity to confront bourgeois prejudices in public. Moiré’s PlopEgg No. 1 was a performance in which she ‘plopped’ paint-filled eggs onto a canvas in public, in the nude, and from her vagina (Jones 2014). The same year, de Robertis sat in front of Gustave Courbet’s painting, Origin of the World, with her legs opened wide to display her vagina (Vartanian 2014). Jonathan Jones’s reaction to Moiré typifies the male hegemony in the art boys’ club that, Koolhaas’s analysis suggests, refuses to take women’s body art seriously. This would seem a not unreasonable assessment. In harking back to a...
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...Graphic Society, 1968. I discovered The History of World Sculpture by conducting a search on the art library’s online catalog. After finding the book’s call number. I received assistance from a librarian in locating the publication on the oversized book section of the Sloane Art Library. As inferred from the title, the amount of information in this publication was daunting, however, once I located the section specifically on Roman sculpture, I found that the information it offered would be useful for my research, particularly because of the background it provided on how the Romans adopted Greek styles. Translated from French, I did an online search on the author, Germain Bazin, and discovered...
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...& 15. It is a “position paper” on the place of the fine arts in the life of a believer. Your paper should be 3-4 single-spaced pages in a Word file with Times New Roman, 12 point font. Make sure to include and cite your resources consistently (6-8 scholarly sources is suggested). Wikipedia is NOT a scholarly source. Submit your Final Paper as an attachment in Moodle. How You’ll Be Graded An excellent paper (90-100%) will deal with the following subjects: 1. What art is, is not, and the part God has designed it to play in the life and spiritual experience of every person – using the course material, the Scriptures, and scholarly outside sources. 2. Why it is important for believers to understand what artists are saying, and what tools to use in order to be accurate in our understanding, before accepting or rejecting the work of art. 3. What you intend to do in your own family going forward, to ensure that your children and grandchildren will come from a family where culture is understood and valued as part of every Christian’s experience. It is highly encouraged for a Christian to be involved in the world of art, but it is important that the Christian viewer has a good understanding of art before they become too involved or make false assumptions due to a lack of understanding. For example, nudity is present in a vast amount of art that was created in the past. One who is not properly educated on art cannot possibly comprehend what the artist is trying to say...
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...Written presentation: L’origine du monde. Courbet, 1866 * Abstract L’Origine du monde is an oil painting realized by Courbet in 1866. It may be the most controversial piece of art that the famous artist has ever presented. Consisting of a 46x55 centimeters close up on a woman’s genitals, the picture makes all the conventions shatter and gets any audience uncomfortable. This essay first explores the historical trajectory of L’Origine du monde, from its origins to its rediscovery since 1995. The painting results from Courbet’s imaginary as well as a precise historical context: the era of the Second Empire was indeed characterized by its interest for nude and erotic painting, what encouraged Courbet to revitalize in his realistic manner this kind of practicing art. Considered as scandalous, the picture has remained hidden during almost one century until its being given to the Orsay Museum, which the piece of art enters on the 26th June 1995. Turning to a more precise analysis of the painting, the essay then emphasizes its ambiguity: although the aim of the painter was to represent the reality of a woman body, trying to reach objectiveness, there is also a will to make the audience react, mind about his relation to nudity. Therefore, the paper leans upon the taxonomy of nudity vs. nakedness in order to understand the peculiar subject of this painting. The last issue the paper deals with is the question of genders in L’Origine du monde. Lots of artists have included Courbet’s...
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...Perceptions of Third Year Fine Arts Students In Far Eastern University on the Use Of Nude Models in Art In Partial Fulfillment of The Subject Requirements In English 8 (Technical Writing) Submitted to: Mr. Rogelio Ramos Guce English Department Institute of Arts and Sciences by Alimorong, Aislin Nika Alterado, Charles Caga-anan, Mark Nathaniel Elpedes, Jhune-Marx Nuñez, Domnilourd Pangilinan, Shem Salvador, Mikaela Valdez, Judah Yatco, Ma. Barbara FT0933 First Semester S.Y. 2011 - 2012 CHAPTER I THE PROBLEM AND ITS BACKGROUND Introduction In the early days, great masters like da Vinci, Michaelangelo and Botticelli had been using nude models as references in their artworks for religious purposes. Up until now, this idea is still being implemented by artists but it is now more about aesthetics. Nude art generally refers to the artists’ depiction of artistic elements of nudity instead of actually showing the naked form of humans. Different cultures react differently on the use of nude models in art. It is through the aesthetic view of nude art that most countries accept this kind of art (Changing Depictions of Art Nudes, 2011). Art schools including Far Eastern University also accept the use of nude models in art such as paintings, sculpture, photography, and the like. In the curriculum of the Fine Arts Department, there are subjects like Anatomy, Life Drawing and Life Painting wherein nude models are used as references in...
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...Graves utilizes throughout the poem emphasizes the marked differences between the distinctive terms ‘naked’ and ‘nude’. “As synonyms should express, the same deficiency of dress or shelter, stand as wide apart as love from lies, or truth from art,” (lines 3 -6). Immediately, Graves demonstrates his interpretation of naked and nude by juxtaposing these terms being as different as “love from lies, or truth from art.” Nakedness is intimacy, nakedness is privacy, as love may be. In contrast, nudeness is secretive, nudeness suggests dishonorable behavior as lying always ensures. Love is uncompromising, pure and honest, while lies are the byproduct of poor virtues. Truth is firm, objective, and unyielding whereas art is opinionated, subjective, and dependent on user interpretation. Graves opposes the terms naked and nude as polar opposites, as he does concepts of love to lies, and truth from art. The speaker demonstrates an abrupt change in tone in the following stanzas of his poem. Graves eulogizes a Goddess using the word “naked” in line 11 while he demeans nudity in lines 13-14 defining the nude as “sly” and “[held] with treasonable eye.” Such usages of diction denote the purity and lightness of nakedness, against the impurity and disdain for nudity. Despite a smooth, succinct stanza of praise for those that see nakedness...
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...Summarize the reaction of the public to Michelangelo’s David and Marcel Duchamp’s Nude Descending a Staircase. The Marcel Duchamp’s Nude Descending art work became one of the controversial works because people thought he was mocking the audience because they could not find a woman in the painting. The public did not like the Michelangelo’s David art work. They were offended by the nudity. People wanted to destroy the work. They had to put a skirt around to cover the nudity. What did viewers of the respective time periods find objectionable about each work? Viewer in the Marcel Duchamp’s Nude Descending art work did not understand the art work because they could not find a woman in the work. The artist did not post an actual woman in the painting. The work was a collection of jagged, flat forms that overlap in a shallow space. Viewer in the Michelangelo’s David art work did not appreciate the work. They felt it was disrespectful. The nudity of the man on the image was objectionable. What are the reasons behind Duchamp’s innovative approach to human form? He wanted to combine two different styles from two modern art movement of the time. So he put multiple of women walking down stairs and overlap the photo. Does knowledge of the artist’s inspiration enhance your appreciation of Nude Descending a Staircase? Yes is liked the image. When I first looked at the work I could not understand it but after I kept looking at it you can see how there is a person in there and...
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...Depictions of nudity Main article: Depictions of nudity Depictions of child nudity or children with nude adults appear in works of art in various cultures and historical periods. These attitudes have changed over time and have become increasingly frowned upon particularly in recent years,[9] especially in the case of photography. In recent years, there have been a few incidents in which snapshots taken by parents of their infant or toddler children bathing or otherwise naked were challenged as child pornography.[10] In May 2008, police in Sydney, Australia, raided an exhibition by the photographer Bill Henson featuring images of naked children on allegations of child pornography.[11][12] Comparable artworks by Henson had been exhibited without incident since 1975, perhaps indicating that this sensitivity has heightened in recent years. In June 2008, it was reported in The Age that police would have no basis to prosecute Henson over his photographs of naked teenagers, after they were declared "mild and justified" and given a PG rating[13] by the Australian Classification Board, suggesting viewing by children under the age of 16 is suitable with parental guidance.[14] Out of protest, the Art Monthly Australia magazine published an image of the 6-year-old Olympia Nelson taken by her mother, Polixeni Papapetrou. According to the then-11-year-old Olympia, she did not believe the photograph amounted to abuse and was upset with Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's remark that he hated...
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...Summarize the reaction of the public to Michelangelo’s David and Marcel Duchamp’s Nude Descending a Staircase. The Marcel Duchamp’s Nude Descending art work became one of the controversial works because people thought he was mocking the audience because they could not find a woman in the painting. The public did not like the Michelangelo’s David art work. They were offended by the nudity. People wanted to destroy the work. They had to put a skirt around to cover the nudity. What did viewers of the respective time periods find objectionable about each work? Viewer in the Marcel Duchamp’s Nude Descending art work did not understand the art work because they could not find a woman in the work. The artist did not post an actual woman in the painting. The work was a collection of jagged, flat forms that overlap in a shallow space. Viewer in the Michelangelo’s David art work did not appreciate the work. They felt it was disrespectful. The nudity of the man on the image was objectionable. What are the reasons behind Duchamp’s innovative approach to human form? He wanted to combine two different styles from two modern art movement of the time. So he put multiple of women walking down stairs and overlap the photo. Does knowledge of the artist’s inspiration enhance your appreciation of Nude Descending a Staircase? Yes is liked the image. When I first looked at the work I could not understand it but after I kept looking at it you can see how there is a person in there...
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...Modern commentators have focused on the nudity of the statue and its erotic effect on her male viewers. Robin Osborne (1994, p.85) identified the Knidian Aphrodite as “an uncommonly powerful work.” Citing the supposed responses of male viewers recorded in the ancient literary sources, he concludes: “Rich though the message of this statue is about male sexuality, it has very little to say about female sexuality.” Hence, he suggests (1994, p.86) that the Knidian Aphrodite should “be seen to play upon male desire, male sexuality, and male expectations and values, and to say nothing to...
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...Body by Body When people view art of course nudity is going to appear somewhere along the way. Many paintings and sculptures from Greek and Roman times almost always depict nude people or gods. But what are the artist's doing today? Some choose to recreate these ancient versions, others take a modern approach. Some of the things to consider when looking back at this art are the form, meaning, and the values. When looking at sculpture such as Antonio Canova's Three Muses or Daniel Edwards’s celebrity sculptures you can see the similarities and differences in their work. There are many different forms of art. Sculpture is one of the many forms and in the fifth century nude statues were seen as the perfect form of representation of the human body. Usually it was normal to see nudity in everyday life and represented a form of ideal, innocence, desire, or purity. In the sculptures Nymph and a Scorpion by Bartolini and Amanda Hall's Modern Sculpture of a Nude Woman show both movement and emotion. Both smooth sculptures have similar poses, hair pulled back and show subtle movement. Nymph is carved from white marble while the nude woman is sculpted out of metal or maybe a dark marble. Hall's sculpture fits in perfectly with the backdrop of the green trees and flowers along with the pond. I can imagine Bartolini’s sculpture placed in a grassy field as well. Even though one is modern and the other antique they are not so different. All works of art have different meanings; while some...
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...principles changed the whole landscape of Europe and even the world as these ideas would gradually spread to other parts of the globe. It was particularly the Italian Renaissance which instigated these changes. It was when handful of humanists sparked off of what would be the one of the most remarkable revolutions. The Catholic Church started to shift away from being the center of the universe and began to be replaced by ideals such as secularism and individualism; a concept unheard of over the last 1000 years. This Renaissance movement were fueled by the people of Florence more so than any other nation. It was Florence which was the center of Renaissance and where it started off. With the discovery of ancient Roman and Greek manuscripts and art, the prosperous city of Florence soon became a mecca of culture and great achievements. It was in early stages of the Renaissance when the son of a goldsmith, Sandro Botticelli created his most famous works; Primavera and The Birth of Venus. After his death, Botticelli’s masterpieces and his artworks’ importance were obscured and underestimated for nearly 400 years before scholars grasped the importance of his work; primarily Primavera and The Birth of Venus and how it played a vital role in the Renaissance movement. Sandro Botticelli in the courts of the Medici created these masterpieces which in the painting itself seem to bring out that there is a radical change coming into the landscape and the rebirth of the perception of mankind itself...
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...Art and Intention A Nude Descending a Staircase was such controversial among the public, many critics responded with such negative behavior because he added nude to the title. I guess when you add nude to the title people just suspect that you are talking about a nude body. I think people felt intimidated by his paintings, and felt he was making a mockery of the audience because no one was able to find any nude bodies in the painting, because Marcel Duchamp I feel had nothing to do with any form of nudist, it was all about motion. I think the public was more gazed upon the name rather than what the painting was about. Marcel Duchamp got these ideas from Etienne Jules Marey illustration of how he dictated movement; this is how motion pictures were invented. Just being able to understand what Marcel was talking about and his intent of bring the audience awareness to motion, made me better understand what he was talking about and where he is coming from. Just to look at the picture and read the title can give you mix feelings, because the first thing you look for is nudity in the picture. Michael Angelo sculptures David which is a master piece of renaissance art, was under much scrutiny by the people. This piece of art represented how David triumphed over Goliath and freedom from foreign and religious domination. Because the way the sculpture was made, with its genital exposed was a political mockery some thought, the supporters of Medici would throw stones at...
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...Nudity or any type of explicit artwork, especially when it is part of a religious symbol, should be done in a respectable and self-aware manner. In other words, the artist should be aware of what is disrespectful to certain groups of people, and either try to change it or express their emotions or ideas in another way. It is important to understand that certain religions, do not like when nudity is freely shown or talked about. This can be a problem if it is done in sculptures or paintings. However, I think that making a chocolate sculpture of a naked, crucified Jesus can be much more insulting than a painting. I think it definitely depends on how certain people see it or how they want their religion to be expressed and shown. Although,...
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...Diana, a Greek goddess of nature and fertility, is a symbol of the body and environment in art. She is known for her relationships with animals and for her tremendous hunting skills. Kenyon Cox painted this piece titled “Diana” with oil on canvas in 1890. He displays her body nude in a woodsy environment. In Art History 103, the importance of the body, sex, and health is emphasized. This piece from the Chazen is a significant part of explaining the body and environment theme in this class. The painting of Diana is significant for the Art History 103 class because it relates to the body, sex, and health. Kenyon Cox paints the entire front of her female figure which emphasizes her healthy fertility. Her skin is soft, her muscles are visible in...
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