Nude photography, the fusion of pictorial and sculptural art?

Art and the perception of nudity have always been subjects that go very deep into our positioning on the body, and these days there's a subtle evolution taking place in our perception of nude art, particularly when it comes to photography.


It's interesting to note that people seem to have more reservations about looking at and buying photographs of naked women, but are less inclined to these same reservations when these photos are transcribed through painting.


This raises the question of whether painting adds an artistic dimension that allows viewers to see beyond the simple representation of the nude?

Nude photography has long been confronted with social and cultural prejudices (this is always the case, let's not forget that we live in contexts favorable to a certain "self-fulfillment").

In a society where the image of nudity is often associated with vulgarity or pornography, it's not surprising that some people are uncomfortable with photographs of nude women.


Photographs offer a realistic, often unadorned representation of the human body, which can be perceived as too crude or exposed. What's more, the ease of distributing images online has led to an overabundance of sexualized images, which may have contributed to a fatigue of this type of representation.



Painting as an intermediary?  When a photographer chooses to paint on his nude models, he introduces an element of artistic transformation into the work. Painting adds colors, textures and patterns that transform the representation of the naked body into a more complex form of artistic expression. The paintings can evoke a range of emotions and symbolic meanings, enabling viewers to perceive the work as more than just an image of nudity.

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I think it's time to create a new category of nude that doesn't belong in the neatly encrusted boxes of pornography and erotica, which ultimately testifies to the way we see bodies in our society;

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Thanks to the anonymous models