For The "Sake Of Art?"

[Lion]

Personally I think nude art is mostly perceived as some thinly veiled form of pornography. While some 'artists' simply create a spitting image of the model, a few extremely talented are able to convey more on the canvas. Take the impressionists, controversial in their time, they were able to display something that people can't just help thinking about when they see it.

[Whippett]

Personally I think nude art is mostly perceived as some thinly veiled form of pornography. While some 'artists' simply create a spitting image of the model, a few extremely talented are able to convey more on the canvas. Take the impressionists, controversial in their time, they were able to display something that people can't just help thinking about when they see it.

While some may paint or draw pornography, I disagree that nude art should be considered as a form of porn.

I took life drawing classes - and found them completely asexual - One of the models at the time was a young lady I was sleeping with - and seeing her naked in front of the class was as asexual as anything you could imagine. Funny thing - it's all contextual - if I'd taken her to an event and displayed her naked it would have been extremely sexual in nature - but in a life-drawing class? nope - just the reverse.

And I wouldn't class anything that was produced in that class as overtly pornographic in any way

[orchidsoul]

I agree, Whippett.

Though I've never taken a drawing class, I work in the arts and perhaps that's why posing naked has never seemed sexual to me. I also have lots of friends that have done it, therefore it's not a foreign concept. I can understand the sensuality of it, more so for the model. To have all eyes cast upon drawing the most detailed curves of my body sure does seem sensual.

It only seems pornographic to people in the US because nudity is a forbidden.

Congrats Amber, glad to hear it went so well!