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Nude Family Pics
Diane Arbus
A Family One Evening in a Nudist Camp, PA , 1965
16 x 20 in. (40.6 x 50.8 cm.)
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Allegory of Fortune (detail), about 1530, Dosso Dossi (Giovanni di Niccolò de Lutero), oil on canvas. The J. Paul Getty Museum
The nude—the unclothed or partially clothed human body—has been featured in European art for millennia. After 1400, with the waning of the Middle Ages, artists depicted nudes as increasingly three-dimensional, vibrant, and lifelike— in short, more immediate and real. They employed diverse means: in Italy through a return to the models of ancient Greek and Roman art, and in northern Europe through refinements to the technique of painting in oils that enabled painters to capture textures—of flesh, of hair, of the sparkle in an eye—with unprecedented truth to nature. In concert with new scientific approaches, artists across Europe studied nature—including the human body—with increasing specificity and deliberation.
The meaningful depiction of the human form became the highest aspiration for artists, and their efforts often resulted in figures of notable sensuality. For Christians, however—who represented most of European society at the time—the nude body could be disturbing, arousing personal desire. Their conflicted responses are mirrored in our own body-obsessed era, filled with imagery of nudity.
The Renaissance Nude examines the developments that elevated the nude to a pivotal role in art making between 1400 and 1530. Organized thematically, the exhibition juxtaposes works in different media and from different regions of Europe to demonstrate that depictions of the nude expressed a range of formal ideals while also embodying a wide range of body types, physical conditions, and meanings.
Renaissance Europe comprised a diverse body of countries and territories divided by language, modes of government, and local customs, but with the great majority of its populations sharing a Christian faith. In particular, the doctrines and rites of the Roman Catholic Church fostered common values and traditions throughout western and central Europe. Art played a key role in Catholic worship and instruction: on church walls and facades, on altars, and in liturgical and devotional books. Jesus Christ, the son of God and redeemer of humankind according to Christian belief, resides at the heart of its imagery; his body was shown as mostly unclothed, revealing the signs of his physical persecution and crucifixion. Similarly, imagery of the nude or mostly unclothed bodies of saints and of biblical heroes and heroines functioned in religious observance and private devotion, representing, at times graphically, their torture and martyrdom. Artists’ growing interest in the close study of nature, from plants and animals to human bodies, made the representation of Christian subjects more immediate and accessible, but also more palpable and sensual (and potentially discomfiting). Despite a rise in the depiction of secular subjects encouraged by a renewed interest in ancient Greek and Roman art, Christian subjects continued to dominate artistic production throughout the Renaissance.
Just as it had in the Middle Ages, the Christian faith dominated art throughout the Renaissance. At the same time, the classical revival— beginning in Italy in the 1300s, in France a bit later, and by the 1500s elsewhere in Europe—fostered the influential intellectual movement known as humanism. Devoted to the recovery of Latin, Greek, and Hebrew texts, humanism applied classical modes of thinking to education, diplomacy, philosophy, and the writing of history and poetry— among the disciplines we call “the humanities” today. Humanists fostered the taste for the antique in the visual arts, stimulating interest in Greek and Roman mythology as well as literary subjects, inspiring artists to create some of their most original work. This section opens with works from centers of humanism that strongly impacted the emergence of the nude in the 1400s—Florence, Mantua, and Paris— while also exploring how humanism shaped art more fully across the Continent.
The adventures of the Greek and Roman gods—with their stories of adultery and lust, drunkenness, debauchery, and deception— provided artists with opportunities to explore human impulses often condemned by the Christian Church. Within humanistic culture, much art created around the nude was erotic, exploring themes of seduction, the world of dreams, the sexual power of women, and even same-sex desire. Venus, the goddess of love, was a favorite subject of painters and sculptors. Thus, the sensual nude, which encouraged artists to push boundaries, could be controversial. Printmakers, practitioners of a new and essential medium for propagating erotic imagery, endured censorship from the Church, with some works that were considered obscene confiscated and destroyed.
Idealized and beautifully proportioned bodies were not the only types of nudes in Renaissance art. Christian art often represented the bloodied figures of the persecuted Christ and saints, the bodies of the deceased and dying, and the emaciated anatomies of devout ascetics who express their faith through the denial of physical needs. By the fifteenth century, artists sought to underscore the visceral realities of death by crucifixion, scourging, and other tortures. Pious Christians derived meaning and, ultimately, comfort from engagement with the frank terms of Christ’s corporeal sacrifice. Artists also devoted attention to other abject bodies. Both the commitment to close observation and the rediscovery of ancient works such as the violent, emotionally charged Laocoön inspired the representation of complex psychological states. By the 1520s Italian artists such as Rosso Fiorentino and Pontormo, reacting to the idealized and heroic art of Raphael and Michelangelo, took inspiration from northern European artists who had long excelled at representing bodies in death, in decay, and outside conventional notions of beauty.
The revival of interest in Greek and Roman art—which was largely focused on the human body—helped transform workshop practice during the Renaissance. An increasingly systematic approach to the empirical study of nature also encouraged drawing from the nude model as a regular part of artistic training—in Tuscany by the 1470s, a few decades later in Germany, and in the Netherlands by the 1500s. Italian artists of the 1400s drew upon both surviving classical works depicting the human body and recently excavated sculptural masterpieces such as the Laocoön and the Apollo Belvedere . Meanwhile, renewed interest in such ancient texts as Vitruvius’s De architectura (On Architecture), which compared systems of architectural proportion with human ones, encouraged artists to explore the ideal proportions of the body.
Exemplifying the close link between art and science and the commitment to realistic observation, Italian artists such as Pollaiuolo and Leonardo da Vinci studied anatomy through dissection, seeking to understand the human skeleton along with the placement and character of muscle. Artists’ intense and repeated study from the nude model was intended to develop mastery of bodily structure, gesture, and pose, thereby facilitating the creation of convincing figural compositions. In northern Europe, such innovations were introduced to artistic training by leading masters, among them Albrecht Dürer and Hans Baldung.
The broad appeal of the nude extended to the novel and personal ways Renaissance patrons sought to incorporate nude figures into the works of art they commissioned. For the interiors of their palaces, Italian humanist patrons sought elaborate decorative cycles, often on such mythological themes as “The Loves of the Gods,” in which the depicted hero’s erotic conquests stood for the patron’s notion of personal virility and his romantic aspirations. Commemorative bronze medals, featuring portraits on one side and allegorical nude figures on the other, offered another way for an artist to evoke the character and ideals of illustrious patrons. Further, just as humanist authors like Petrarch wrote in praise of their beloveds, aristocratic patrons sought flattering portrayals of their mistresses and other beauties, often seminude and in historical guises, creating a new genre, belle donne (“beautiful women”). An intriguing and unusual antecedent of this genre is Fouquet’s erotic portrayal of the French King Charles VII’s mistress with bared breast as the Virgin Mary.
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Yushi Li, The Feast, 2020, image courtesy Yushi Li
“The male nude is by leaps and bounds way less exoticized than the female nude in art, and in all forms of media”, the photographer Dana Scruggs tells me. Her recently released photo series The Black Male Form sees Scruggs — known for shooting high profile celebrity magazine cover stories — vow to use the male body as an object, in the same way many male artists have done with the female body throughout art history. “Seeing the female body nude is extremely commonplace”, Scruggs elaborates, “there’s literally been countless advertisements of naked women on billboards and in magazines, and actresses are constantly expected to show full frontal nudity on screen.”. It’s a lack of parity that Scruggs wants to subvert, “the male nude has been marginalized because there’s never been a dude with his penis out on the side of a bus”, she says, “only now are we starting to see male actors going full frontal in TV and film on a more consistent basis.”.
Dana Scruggs, Rōze En La Playa (2016)
Becoming more radical as her career progresses – in January Scruggs took to Instagram resolving to “just do what I want. If you like it great, if you don’t, that’s okay too” – her next step involves moving the needle on the use of the male nude in art. The last century of visual culture has seen the female body become a passive creative object used to benefit advertising, art, commerce and pornography, largely by and for men. Her photo series Roze en la Playa on show at New York’s Fotografiska Nude exhibition illustrates how Scruggs is committed to addressing the inequality of male and female nudes in art. The show opened a week after Scruggs posted a mission statement on Instagram, where she revealed her ongoing project The Black Male Form . “The Black Male Form is a phrase I’ve used most of my career to describe my work”, she wrote, “Unfortunately I rarely get hired to shoot men. It feels good to go back to my roots to push even further than I have before.”.
This lens on the male nude is a political one for Scruggs. “This is a patriarchal society that has been dominated by men having the power to desenstize the public to the female nude while intentionally making the public highly sensitive to viewing male genitalia” she tells me, when I ask about her image Roze en la Playa , which sees the chef and model Roze Traore laying in a pose reminiscent of Ingre’s Grande Odalisque painting on a sandy beach. Scruggs cleverly highlights the knock-on effect of a visual culture permeated with passive female nudes, but far fewer of men.
Since the artist group Guerilla Girls famously revealed in 1989 that 5% of the artists in US modern art collections are women, but 85 percent of the nudes are female, little has changed. In 2018, a National Museum of Women in the Arts survey of American museums found that 87 percent of the collections were by men. “When I go to museums, I see way more breasts and vaginas on display than I see penises”, Scruggs explains, “the double standard of vulnerability is very easy to see.”. This double standard has created a culture where the female nude image is traded in a way mens’ is not — in 2018 Exeter University found that nearly 3 in 4 victims of revenge porn are women.
Yushi Li, Ben, (2017), image courtesy Yushi Li
“The male nude was the ideal and principal subject in art in ancient Greece and early renaissance art” says photographer Yushi Li , who appears in the exhibition Nude alongside Scruggs. However, she explains, “since the early 19th century, the female nude started becoming the most prevalent subject in art. Unlike the male nude, which is often perceived as an autonomous subject, the female nude is normally presented in a passive way. I think in my work, I try to present men in a different way to question this masculine and feminine opposition, and cast the gaze onto the male body, which can be equally eroticized and desired as the female body.”. Over the last year, much has been made over male nudity becoming slightly more commonplace in popular culture – in the Sex and the City reboot And Just Like That, Harry’s full front scene went viral, Sex Life 's Adam Demo’s nude scene was much talked about, and even the cover of Julia Peyton’s novel Vladimir shows a naked man. But as Li notes, these acts of nudity have far more autonomy that women’s do – we still need more parity.
Li’s photographic profiles such as Tinder Boys and The Feast , present the male body as a passive prop to her art. An image from The Feast depicts Li fully clothed with naked men used as props for furniture. “In the project My Tinder Boys , I photographed different men I met through the online dating application Tinder. I look at them, I ‘like’ them, I make them become images of mine. The repetition of the process and similar settings in this series of photographs turns these men into undifferentiated and replaceable objects of my desire.”
Yushi Li, The Nightmare, image courtesy Yushi Li
Li’s image The Nightmare is strikingly similar to Allen Jones’s 1969 sculpture Table, in which a female mannequin is bent over and used as a seat – a pointed reference to the casual use of female bodies for the benefit of a male artist? “During these unusual dates” Li says, careful to note the nuance in her presentation of female objectification of men: “I am both the violator who tries to invade their private space and also the desiring object who participates in their vulnerability”. Carlota Ibanez of Efremedis Gallery in Berlin, says she’s seeing a new emerging market among collectors for art where the tropes of art owned by men historically “such as the nude which was until very recently largely authored by men for men”, are “subverted, such as women depicting men naked, not as the centrepiece of their art, but as passive objects.”.
Dana Scruggs, Rōze En La Playa, image courtesy Dana Scruggs
Like Yi, Scrugg’s ongoing series The Black Male Form sees her use the male body as the ideal prop for the perfect photograph. “I will usually give the model a random piece of direction like: pretend like you're a leaf on the wind or pretend like you’re a piece of spaghetti that’s been thrown against a wall”, she says, “how they interpret that direction is our jumping off point and we work together to make those movements look and feel organic and effortless.”. In many ways, this female lens on the male body is anti-social media, the algorithm-defined aesthetics of which have led to many photographers showing their work on Instagram that prioritises a beauty that fits into western standards – which is what the algorithm rewards.
Does Scruggs think the male nude is at risk of the same marginalisation that women have felt for over half a century? “The root of my work is portraying the masculinity and vulnerability of the Black male form. I enjoy photographing women, but the opposite energy of men is what inspires me the most”, she says. She describes her work before revealing The Black Male Body series as something she did for career progression, feeling that she to “had to check boxes of wokeness and black pain”, a sentiment she shared on Instagram last year. For now, a commitment to the male nude is her main objective. “It’s a voyeuristic fascination” she says — “a curiosity of the masculine.”.
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