Nudity

[MakeUpJunkie]

I think nudity is great, as long as its not like Playboy type nudity. I mean artsy nudes. Kate Moss has tons of those.

 

[*Eylul*]

I think people look better when they are dressed

 

[cuteshoes215]

each nude girl is sexual. though it is photographed in an artistic way. what does that mean "artistic"? where is the border? peter lindberghs photographs are artistic. but they are sexual. what you mean is artistic=tasteful how do you exlain artistic? black/white?

i think it's similar to historic art. a painted picture of a "nude" primadonna where she is looking to the side, relaxed, and in the typical nude pose was just fine, but when a certain artist (i can't remember who) painted a picture of a nude girl, with her head held high instead of relaxed against a pillow, looking right at the viewer like "come and get me", the public freaked out and the picture was banned. so, "nude" and blatently provocative are two different things.

 

[cuteshoes215]

It's interesting that people are so up in arms over 17 year old Gemma Ward's breasts. First, fashion shows are meant to attract attention and often designers do the overtly sexy route to sell their clothing. Having a 17 year old bare her nipples on a catwalk does not constitute child p*rn*gr*phy especially since the majority of people viewing the show are women or gay men- her breasts are lost on both demographics. Second, it's a fashion show...not the pages of Penthouse. Also, I haven't seen any advertisements that I have felt degraded Gemma in anyway. She may be young but I don't see her being taken advantage of in the industry and being made to bare her naked body. And beyond that fashion has a tendancy to celebrate youth and having a young, fresh faced girl like Gemma in the pages of Vogue only reinforces the adolescent look the fashion industry loves. As well I thought the last Tom Ford YSL campaign with Gemma was one of the most beautiful advertisements I had seen in years.

gemma's nude photos are the classiest nude photos i've ever seen

 

[J'ador-DioR]

I won't do full on nudity as a model. Not because I am against it, but because pubic hair (or the lack their of) makes me so uncomfortable...

 

[Multitudes]

i think it's similar to historic art. a painted picture of a "nude" primadonna where she is looking to the side, relaxed, and in the typical nude pose was just fine, but when a certain artist (i can't remember who) painted a picture of a nude girl, with her head held high instead of relaxed against a pillow, looking right at the viewer like "come and get me", the public freaked out and the picture was banned. so, "nude" and blatently provocative are two different things.

You are right in looking through art history the nude, in the relaxed and "dreamy" pose was considered as fine art and in away lifted to an ideal image of the female body/form in particular, the classical nude, but this also offers an uncomplicated relationship between the depicted woman and the viewer, the voyeurs gaze(the male gaze...)... and this certainly changed, as you also pointed out, during the modernist period, and the artist you might be thinking about is Egon Schiele, anyway for me he is the one who broke with the nude tradition completely. Schiele's approach to sexuality was not only groundbreaking in his day, it is still shocking to some today. To be sure, The female nude was and is a well-established artistic motif, but its erotic aspect can be highly unsettling. Artists have traditionally tamed the nude by aestheticizing her. Languorously beautiful and compositionally fixed in her own remoted space, the classical nude can be safely enjoyed as an artistic, rather than a sexual object. Thus is art distinguished from p*rn*gr*phy, the sole goal of which is titillation. Over the years, Schiele's harshest critics have branded him a pornographer. However, these critics miss the point. Schiele's nudes are anything but titillating. On the contrary, they are often frightning, fearful, or downright ugly. And that is just the beginning of the problem. For not only did Schiele fail to conventionally aestheticize his nudes, he also granted his audience honest access to a much broader range of sexual emotions than is permitted by classical convention. Perhaps most disturbing, particular to male observers, is the fact that Schiele refused to fix his nudes in a clearly defined space. By eliminating all traces of a three-dimensional background setting in the resultant compositions, and signing drawings of recumbent figures as vertical, he created a profound sense of spatial dislocation. Both the content and the form of Schiele's nudes brought the artist's sexual anxiety and confusion too close for the comfort of some one.

Another aspect of Schiele I find very interesting, is this illusion, that pleasure depicted exists in isolation from the artist who depicts it, which is one Egon Schiele abolishes through his forced emphasis on the model-viewer relationship. To use klimt as a contrasting example, he doesn't 'offend' you at all. He is pleasing to the eyes, with no complications or any disruption. But what he does offers you, is an very uncomplicated eroticism. His soft, caressing line emphasizes the "femininity" and passivity of his women who lie, more often than not, luxurating on rich and delicate materials, their faces transfixed by sensual delight. The spectator is both voyeur and potential participant. There is free access for the gaze, without any disturbance. It is no doubt pimarily the psycological expression of self-forgetfullness that promotes the emotional detachment of Klimt's subject from the artist's and thus from the viewer. Their eyes are mostly closed, they look at no one, they seem to exist by them selves alone and for their own pleasure.
Where Klimt's models hardly ever catch the voyeur at all, Schiele's women give us an unblinking stare. But it's not the "come and get me" stare you mentioned. The viewer of Schiele's nudes is not really a voyeur at all; the situation staged by Schiele, that of modelling in his studio, has nothing secret. Of course, both Klimt as well as Schiele or any artist for that matter who works with live models, have the model's body at their entire disposal. But in Klimt's drawings he conceals him selfs behind his own pictorial idea, and behind the fantasy of secretly eavesdropping on an erotic act; In Schiele, the artist is always there. Not only the portraits but the nudes, even the back view, react with and offer themselves to the viewer. Also Klimt's nudes are always placed in recognisable surroundings, which makes it even more accesable and pleasing to the eye. That is why I have always, prefered Schiele because you can ask your self what is more 'offensive'... presenting the pleasuring female always available and uninterupted to your disposal or a female that stares back at you, striped away from any pleasuring cliches?

 

[cuteshoes215]

the hair in nude art kind of freaks me out. must i remember the nude photo my art professor had projected in 20x20 foot expanse that also projected onto her face...? awkwarrrd.

 

[MakeUpJunkie]

the hair in nude art kind of freaks me out. must i remember the nude photo my art professor had projected in 20x20 foot expanse that also projected onto her face...? awkwarrrd.

lmao

 

[cuteshoes215]

can anyone find and post the nude (very simple/yellow hue) photo of gemma ward? i absolutely cannot find it on her thread and i thought it was so classy the first time i saw it

 

[irenistiQ]

I think people look better when they are dressed

i agree!
LOL.

have y'all seen carmen kass' editorial in an issue of paris vogue,whr she was totally nude,and she was at a tanning bed or smth....

 

[MakeUpJunkie]

Cindy

umodela

 

[happycanadian]

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!

i had forgotten how SCORCHING HOT those Eva H. Playboy pics were! simply stunning! dear sweet Lord above!

*speechless*


karma!!! --- oh. i can't give you karma for some reason .. . its not at the bottom of the post like usual?!?

 

[Uchina]

There is something about a female bottom that is just so fascinating.

 

[ChrissyM]

robot please provide credits for the images you posted per tFS guidelines or they will have to be deleted... thanks

 

[J'ador-DioR]

have y'all seen carmen kass' editorial in an issue of paris vogue,whr she was totally nude,and she was at a tanning bed or smth....

Here are 2 shots from that ed

womenmanagement.com

 

[sexydaydreamer]

Don't have to much of a problem with nudity, but I would like the model to at least be 18 years of age before he or she does any nude pics.

And sometimes I wish the world would be more prude about nudity like that U.S. But oh well, that's just me. I just don't like seeing child models get their pics taken without any clothes.

 

[salvail]

i think nude pictures can be very beautiful and erotic, as long they don´t look like p*rn, or all that playboy-crab.i think every model has made some nude pictures, at least a nude back or butt.nothing wrong about it.

 

[cuteshoes215]

Diana Dondoe
Vogue Italia May 05

this is a repost but omg, she has PERFECT boobs! i want them for myself. i have um..nothing..almost nothing.

 

[ChrissyM]

^^source?

*and i agree she has great boobs

 

[cuteshoes215]

oh man.. i can't remember the source. i thought i had it posted. it's from another member's post on this thread