For what it's worth, I don't get it either. According to some of the people I've talked to, you're "not a real artist" (I've gotten that! Ha!) if you don't do nudes, and to some other group of people, you're a pr0n fiend or something - what gives?
Nudes are fun. *shrug* Even though I still have a hard time drawing them, mostly thanks to the "OMG IS THAT A CROTCH" responses I've gotten in the past.
Art galleries should not have to be G-rated, especially if the clothing store down the street is most definitely not.
I tend to get the "You're not a real artist" because I really only paint in my one happy style, have never 'mastered' realism, and thusly OMG AM BEING LAAAZY. Or... some shit.
What is it with people being so shocked by nudity? Seriously? It's a natural thing. It's the clothes that are unnatural. They're the actual human invention.
Someone ought to tell some people that puritanism is a fad that passed four hundred years ago.
I don't know what the deal with naked people is. (Though I remember being thoroughly ridiculed by students and teachers both in the fifth grade when it was discovered that I was sketching nudes in my notebooks. It was math class and I already knew the math. I was bored. And gave up drawing for a good while afterward. I don't think I've told anyone that.)
I don't know what the deal with a lot of human taboos is, being neurodiverse and all. But the American body shame thing is especially baffling given how much sexualized imagery we soak in. I defy even the most upright of moralists to find the offense in Duschamp's "Nude Descending a Staircase" though. Though I'd really kind of like to make them all have to learn to appreciate the beauty in a Soutine retrospective.
And yes, having a dick can be awkward. Especially for those of us whose gender presentation is female. But it has its rewards too, like anything else.
I remember my cousin got a Playgirl magazine for her 21st birthday, and we sat around and laughed ourselves silly at the ways they tried to make dicks look interesting. (My friend and I adopted the rally cry "Flopped to the left! Flopped to the right! Straight up!" for a while.) And a while back I carried on expansively about my opinion that Genitals Just Look Silly, Get Over It.
I like nudity in art. I don't understand people who think that NUDITY = SEXY TIEMS. They can correlate, of course, but it's not necessary.
Perhaps your small towm buddies will learn from you! (Ha.)
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Nudes are fun. *shrug* Even though I still have a hard time drawing them, mostly thanks to the "OMG IS THAT A CROTCH" responses I've gotten in the past.
Art galleries should not have to be G-rated, especially if the clothing store down the street is most definitely not.
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Bah I say.
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Someone ought to tell some people that puritanism is a fad that passed four hundred years ago.
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I don't know what the deal with a lot of human taboos is, being neurodiverse and all. But the American body shame thing is especially baffling given how much sexualized imagery we soak in. I defy even the most upright of moralists to find the offense in Duschamp's "Nude Descending a Staircase" though. Though I'd really kind of like to make them all have to learn to appreciate the beauty in a Soutine retrospective.
And yes, having a dick can be awkward. Especially for those of us whose gender presentation is female. But it has its rewards too, like anything else.
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I like nudity in art. I don't understand people who think that NUDITY = SEXY TIEMS. They can correlate, of course, but it's not necessary.
Perhaps your small towm buddies will learn from you! (Ha.)
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