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Hooray, Kim . . . that's a positive "take" on the subject in question that shows in your work. Mediterranean classic period nudes are "perfect" (well, ideal anyway) . . . male and female. That's a statement about the human condition that reflected in the Greek dictum, "sound mind, sound body." The beauty (and hence the value) of corporeal being adopted by Christianity humanized the dichotomy of temporal physicality and eternal spirituality. Could Michaelangelo's commentary on the nobility of the body have ever been made without the impact that mass of nude art produced in antiquity made?
Without pointing to specific work, a number of current artists deal with the nude human body representing it as something scrofulous and loathsome. Is this a cause or an effect as it relates to the society that produces this?
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