Dave R. Davison
Wednesday, 4 February 2015

The nude has been a feature of art ever since the creation of “fertility goddess” figurines in Neolithic times. For the Greeks, the nude was the embodiment of divine perfection. For the artists of the Renaissance, the nude became a means to express emotion and energy. From thence artists of every generation found the human form to be a malleable vehicle of expressive potential and cerebral exploration of forms in space. There are some who have dismissed the nude as politically incorrect. Consequently, contemporary gatekeeper institutions like civic art museums sometimes seem a little embarrassed by depictions of the nude.  Read more…