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??? I thought I had posted this to "Nude Unveilings - all medium", the reference is to Bill Whitaker's article in that thread. Apparently I haven't mastered the wherefore of this forum.
Sharon, I detect a definite "end of discussion" tenor in your reply, but since you pose your comments as questions, I feel compelled to respond to them.
I feel that if the sum total of making art were satisfied by painting what we love (as I agree we should be doing) there would be no reason for a forum such as this to exist. We can't always be painting . . . (I'm taking five to write this, because after a day at the easel, I'm well nigh cross eyed!).
Given our current freedom to paint "any kind of nude", should we? My musings concern questions of purpose and subject matter in painting generally, the nude as a specific subject is a ready focal point because it's easy to analyze in this sense. I don't think anyone remains entirely neutral when considering the nude in a work of art.
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