...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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...Comparing Nude Women of Art from different eras It is surprising how different female body sculptures from different ancient civilizations are. The diverse forms of human body also embody many different functions and meanings. In art, naked figures reflect a very complex set of formal ideals, philosophical concerns, and cultural traditions. In this essay I would like to compare two sculptures of nude women. The first one is the Venus of Willendorf which was built in Paleolithic Period. Another is called the Venus of Milo carved in ancient Greece. The female body of the Venus of Willendorf depicts enlarged breasts, buttocks and genital, which represents fertility, while the body of Venus of Milo, on the other hand, demonstrates beauty and perfect proportions. Despite the difference characteristics and styles between them, they both represent the different view of the perfect female form. The most widely known female figurine, the Venus of Willendorf, with only 11cm in height, is possibly the smallest female nude sculpture we know. It is one of the most obese representations of the Paleolithic statuary. The Venus of Willendorf can be dated back to approximately the Paleolithic period, around 28,000 to 25,000 BCE. According to some analysis, it was obvious that it had once been “painted with red ochre”, a symbolic substance commonly found in connection with burials and grave goods from the same time period. It was made of Oolitic limestone. Her thighs are also large and pressed...
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...expression, including freedom of the press and other media of communication,” applies to this case. In this issue, a nudist named Brian Coldin, states that his freedom of expression has been infringed upon as he is charged with several counts of public nudity because of his lifestyle. In Canada, certain laws in forbid this act, which directly affects the ability of a nudist to express themselves. In response to this, Coldin’s lawyer, Clayton Ruby, has said that these charges have limited the expression of nudists and suggest that these laws infringe on Charter rights. However, witnesses have also claimed that seeing Coldin nude in public has caused trauma and unease. But, despite these...
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...FEBRUARY 27, 2008 Effect of Allograft Bone Processing on Structural Cortical Grafts: A Comparison of Three Proprietary Processing Methods Michael G. Dunn, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery Director, Orthopaedic Research Laboratories UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School 1 Robert Wood Johnson Place, New Brunswick, NJ 08903 Summary The objective of this study was to determine the effect of three commercial bone cleaning processes on the bone remodeling characteristics of cortical bone. Cortical bone is useful for its load bearing properties. Cortical struts are typically used in applications where internal stabilization is desired. The cortical allografts serve as a stabilizing strut while undergoing bone remodeling by the mechanism of creeping substitution. The processing of cortical bone, intended to remove undesirable immunologically active elements, may also remove desirable elements (including endogenous growth factors) and affect the bone’s ability to undergo creeping substitution. Summary, continued Results of this study suggest that: • DBM prepared from MTF ATP cortical tissue was consistently osteoinductive in this model; 7 out of 7 ranked samples were osteoinductive (1 sample could not be ranked due to histological artifacts). The average bone score for the 7 ranked samples was 2.17 ± 0.82. • DBM prepared from RTI BioCleanse cortical tissue was not osteoinductive in this model; 7 out of 7 ranked samples were not osteoinductive...
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...impression of gender portrayal in art has been a popular subject of academic discussion. This discussion is specifically centered on the minimal number of female artists in comparison to the large number of paintings, photographs, and sculptures depicting the nude female body. Many artists of both genders claim that the portrayal of the naked body is a work of beauty. While many of these portrayals are a product of their time period, they are still a representation of gender inequality. Incidentally, there are fewer female artists featured in major metropolitan art museums than their male equivalents. This paper will discuss Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s painting, The Large Bathers, in congruence with Chapter 5, Gender, Genius, and Guerrilla Girls ....
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...Carol Ann Duffy's poem "Standing Female Nude" is an ambiguous dramatic monologue of an unfulfilled proletarian woman. The poem explores the fight for power between the two characters, the ‘nude’ woman and the male artist. It emphasises the issues of social and gender separation (objectification of women) in France and explores Marxist philosophies. The model prostitute tries to “make a few francs”, which suggests that is all she is worth, while the painter tries to create a piece of art to become a great, “serious” artist. They use each other, but it is the woman who is subordinated to the men who gradually throughout the poem gains triumphant power over the man. “Standing Female Nude” is from Duffy’s first collection, when she was in her thirties, where there was a lot of social injustice, both class and gender injustice. The author as a strong feminist had to, like the poem's narrator, lay her soul bare in a male-led world. In the course of the poem, Duffy exploits a range of techniques such as alliteration, “six hours for a few francs”, in order to highlight the model’s irritation and contempt of the disempowered situation she’s in. The author also uses imagery technique - through sexual overtones she belittles the artist, even though at first it is the model who seems to be in the thrall of the artist. “Little man / you’ve not got the money for the arts I sell”, where the words choice - “little” insinuates the man’s reduction in status and being sexually dismissive. ...
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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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...Art and Intention The reaction of the public to Michelangelo’s David and Marcel Duchamp’s Nude Descending a Staircase was the painting overturned conventions not only for depicting the female nude but also for representing three-dimensional space on a canvas. Michelangelo’s David it is one of the world’s most famous sculptures, considered a masterpiece of Renaissance art. But it did not meet with universal approval when it was first dis played in Florence, Italy, in 1504. The thing that contemporary viewers find objectionable about each work was the plaza where public political meetings took place on a raised platform called the arringhiera from which the English word “harangue” derives). Its political context, in other words, was clear. It represented David’s triumph over the tyrant Goliath and was meant to symbolize Republican Florence the city’s freedom from foreign and papal domination and from the rule of the Medici family as well. Les Demoiselles d’Avingnon has often been interpreted as commenting on the anxiety surrounding venereal disease, a life-threatening sexual affliction that widely affected prostitutes in Paris during the 1900s. The reasons behind Duchamp’s innovative approach to human form were inspired by a popular exhibition of African objects held in Paris in the 1800s. Frequently carried modern European perceptions of cultural superiority and often appropriated the art without understanding its original meaning function. Yes the artist’s inspiration enhanced...
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...Throughout the history of the world, art has its own history as well. The Ancient art period started before 500 B.C with its characteristics were about God, Goddess and Heroes. Women, in ancient Greek and Roman societies, did not have high status and they were considered as properties of men. During that time, woman was just being a wife and being a mother and stayed at home to take care of the house for her man. Women did not have any role in politics therefore they could not vote and they did not have any right for themselves. The roles of women could be learned by reviewing how female figures were created through the ancient Greek and Roman art works. Most of the female figures, in any art work during this period, were either goddess; such as statue of Athena goddess of wisdom,warfare and women's craft, or monsters; such as Sphixn in Greek mythology. Therefore, during the ancient...
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...rallying poster for the 1989 pro-choice march on Washington in support of reproductive freedom. In the image, the woman’s face is split down the middle into positive and negative exposures and parts of her face covered in words. The positive and negative exposures are meant to emphasize that the piece is still art even though it is a protest to the other side....
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...after dying of pneumonia. He was well known for creating the pointillist style of paining by using tiny dots of color. He used a method called divisionism, which is defined as “a systematic refinement of the broken color of the impressionists.” Some of his more famous pieces are Baignade and Un Dimance à la Grande Jatte (A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grand Jatte), which is pictured in the background of Models, as mentioned earlier. Seurat is a very well known painter and his work had a great impact on the art community, and he is well recognized for his “influence in restoring harmonious and deliberate design and a thorough understanding of color combination to painting at a time when sketching from nature had become the mode” (Columbia). His work can be found at the Tate Gallery in London, the Louvre in Paris, and also the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia. Imitation theory suggests that art is in some way an imitation of life. This theory suggests that art is meant to reproduce the reality of nature, human life, or human actions. When examining...
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...Art in ancient Greece during the classical period was identified by the more idealized and naturalistic bodies depicted in the sculptures, compared to the Archaic period that came before it. While vase paintings during the time weren’t nearly as naturalistic, they still displayed idealized figures that exemplified the period. Mythology was a common subject matter of both the sculptures and vase paintings. The object found at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, The wedding of Heracles and Hebe, is a ceramic object from the classical period in Greece; it dates 400-390 BCE and is by the Meleager Painter. This paper will examine the red-figure pyxis displaying the wedding of Heracles and Hebe through consideration...
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...The Digital Arts movement have transformed they way we think of an art today. Computers have set a new stage for the artists, as they are able to create artwork from their laptops using digital codes. One of the controversial artists of this century is Yasumasa Morimura, who shed light on issues of sexual and gender identities, as well as ethnic background in the late twentieth century art world. Portrait (Futago) created in 1988 is a color photograph by Morimura. At first glance we see a close resemblance to a famous and traditional painting by Edouard Manet, Olympia (1863). In the original painting Manet portrayed a nude French prostitute with a black servant standing next to her. Over a century later, Morimura takes the setting of this painting and changes a few details. First, he replaces the French woman with a picture of himself. It is obvious that the nude body is of a...
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...Art and Intention Colleen Claus ART/101 August 16, 2013 John Lennox Art and Intention The statue of David was created to symbolize the city of Florence’s freedom from foreign, papal, and Medici rule by depicting the triumph of David over the giant, Goliath. The unveiling met with public resistance. Supporters of the Medici family hurled stones at it during the night. Other citizens objected to its nudity. To protect the sensibilities of the viewers, a copper skirt was made to go around it (Sayre, 2009). Marcel Duchamp’s painting, “Nude Descending A Staircase” is a captivating piece. By viewing it from a distance one perceives the graceful flow of movement. This is an abstract painting using cubism and inspired by stop-action photography. The public expected a realistic painting and did not understand the work. They thought the artist was mocking them. A reporter challenged anyone to find a woman in the picture (MyArtsLab, 2012). This painting is not a study of the human body but a study of movement. The inspiration for this piece was a book by Etienne Jules Marey, pictures of a horse trotting in stop-action photography, and an illustration that used a system of dots to indicate the point of each movement made (MyArtsLab, 2012). Duchamp depicted motion with the study of a figure in kinetic motion, represented by successive superimposed images of the subject. At first viewing the painting seemed to depict chaos and confusion. Knowing the artist’s...
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...Marcel Duchamp’s painting the Nude Descending a Staircase, and Michelangelo’s David were pieces of art that were met with heavy criticism in different ways. Duchamp, more so for his painting was deemed unrealistic and when initially viewed the audience found it insulting. Michelangelo’s statue David on the other hand received criticism due to political views and societal views about nudity. The objections seen and posed by audiences in the Duchamp painting was in that it didn’t make sense, there wasn’t a natural flow to the piece. People were used to seeing images reflective of life that were easy to understand and this was not the case. The painting was quite abstract and challenging for people to understand. Duchamp I believe took an innovative approach towards his piece because he wanted to challenge his audience in making them think outside the box. The painting clearly shows he was interested in the human body by painting it in abstract form rather than in true form, the body in motion is visually deceptive. Another reason for his approach was his interest in the works of photographic art; in fact, Nude Descending a Staircase is reflective of artist such as Eadweard Muybridge, Woman Walking Downstairs,(www.newyorktimes.com). Michelangelo’s David an iconic ode to the human body was created in 1504, (www.newyorktimes.com), and the figure representative of strength before a battle is larger than life. The religious connotation of the piece is part of Christianity and...
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