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Body and Form IX
Women are traditionally represented as childish innocent beings in our patriarchal culture. A naked woman, when not posing sexually is often seen as... more
Title
Body and Form IX
Artist
Marcio Faustino
Medium
Photograph - Digital Photography
Description
Women are traditionally represented as childish innocent beings in our patriarchal culture. A naked woman, when not posing sexually is often seen as vulnerable.
There are many kinds of nude photographs. Some are made to be sexually appealing and some are not. It is actually much easier to make a woman sexually appealing wearing accessories and clothes that help to extol their body features instead of representing them purely naked. The completely nude body means something beyond the sex appeal.
When you want to concentrate only on the body form, texture and expression everything else becomes a noise, or a distraction. Even colours in many circumstances give meanings and become distracting when you want to concentrate on shapes and texture. This is why black and white images are often necessary as well as nude images.
I don't mean that works focused on body expression and shapes have to be nude. There are many ways of trying to do it with appropriate clothes. But with clothes it will not be possible to represent and appreciate the full and natural body shape and texture.
It also doesn't mean it has to be a full body frontal nude, because genitals are often a distraction too, depending on the level of appreciation, theme and the way it is represented. It will be a distraction for those who are not used to seeing vaginas and penis exposed.
In other words, not all nude or even frontal nude representation mean to be erotic or pornographic. We can also be sure that there are a lot of erotic and even pornographic suggesting images everywhere we look at in our daily life through advertises on TV, magazines and billboards that apparently sell services and products but after all they actually sell life style, which also include idealized sexual attraction and sexual power. So I understand the reason people associate the body and specially the naked body as sexual display. But we should do our best to not take the materialist advertising visual language for granted and get used to the real world, real bodies and the art language as well.
Uploaded
March 29th, 2020
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