Comments on: Would you participate in nude drawing?

By: charles mead

charles mead — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 02:13:23 +0000

I like drawing models with clothes, I believe the subject is alot more
interesting. There is something about a clothed model. There is a story the model portrays in everyday life. Please note: Norman Rockwell portayed life from all
walks of life.
I don’t begrudge any artist who does draw and paint nudes,it’s art in another form.
Models, nude and clothed are during service to the Arts.It gives the viewers an option to critique to their hearts content.On that note, Thank You

By: charles mead

charles mead — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 02:09:18 +0000

By: Rylee Q

Rylee Q — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 12:03:55 +0000

I would be open to doing either or both, but I would need to know that students involved in drawing me as a model would act professionally, not in an immature way. Working with live nude models in art should be akin to having medical students begin practice on real patients.

By: Keith

Keith — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 22:53:21 +0000

I would model as I am not very artistic. I pity the person who has to draw me, though. Way out of shape.

By: William

William — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 23:40:44 +0000

Yes. I am a 66 year old man. When I was in my late 30s I posed nude nude for a female photographer friend who specialized in closeups of the penis and torso. At that time she was doing artistically groundbreaking photography and her art professor sort of freaked out at her penis closeups. This of course was the sexist double standard which was even more prevalent in the 80s.

We belonged to a cooperative art gallery, I was also a photographer. I found that I was a bit of an exhibitionist since it was a safe, socially sanctioned form of exhibitionism. I found it very sensual, I liked the feel of the hot photo lights on my body, and that people would admire my body and the photos and I could stay anonymous.

I would do it again even though Im fat old and ugly for some serious photographer or painter.

By: Lee

Lee — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 02:46:11 +0000

I have modeled nude, see absolutely nothing wrong with it, and I would draw nude models and have attempted it, but drawing generally just doesn't work for me. I am neither an exhibitionist nor a voyeur, nor am I afraid of the body I was born with, nor afraid of anyone else's, and I don't need to hide behind such silly notions as thinking that nudity must be either voyeuristic, exhibitionistic, or both.

I do have nude figurative artwork in my house, and I think it's great. As far as bodies being temples, temples seem to be rather prominent, not hidden. Again, such ideas and absolute notions are just silly.

The difference between figurative art and pornography is the difference between light and dark, but you must open your mind to grasp the reality of the truly vast difference. Indeed, they are polar opposites. A clothed body and a nude body are not necessarily opposites and may well be the flip side of the exact same perverted coin, one side is just trying to hide their perversion under a thin layer of fabric. I'm not fooled.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 04:38:03 +0000

I would like to model nude. Just for the fact that I wsould then be immortalized in a piece of art that will be here longer than I will.

By: scottSLS@aol.com

scottSLS@aol.com — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 22:50:31 +0000

no 3 for me – if I would participate in drawing then I should be confident enough to do the same and model for others. If it’s not a sexual thing then I’m not going to be evaluated on the traditional ’10’ scale where I wouldn’t rank too high. I am comfortable bveing nude – I was all day today at home and earlier this week at a beach, a class for art would be no problem.

By: kardo

kardo — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 01:22:19 +0000

My option would be #3…Is there a double standard in the North American culture? If nudity is pornography, how do your bloggers feel about National Geographic magazine articles? Is nudity acceptable for other cultures as long as they don’t look like “us”? I had an unusual feeling about the movie Rappa Nui…about the Easter Island history (with some artistic license, I’m sure) I noticed right away that many of the actresses were top-less…but after a short time I got so wrapped up in the story that I didn’t really pay attention to it. Probably the directors intended for that to happen. Similarly, the movie Medicine Man with Sean Connery, there were a number of women that were bare breasted… and yet in neither movie did I feel like I was looking at pornography. Quite frankly, I’d rather my children see this type of nudity than some of the violent, potty-mouthed ka-ka they seem inclined to want to rent from the movie rental place in town.
It may be that I’m a product of my times (born in 1955) but in my opinion, nudity is not pornography. I believe that if nudity is used to degrade, or belittle a person, particularly against their will,…that’s not so much pornography as just evil.
I do have some paintings of nudes on my walls…I prefer playful, whimsical images. A sense of humour; warts, wrinkles and all. If we can’t laugh at our flaws, we run the risk of seasoning our lives with too much salt.

By: ltbugaf

ltbugaf — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 04:32:04 +0000

The only thing that keeps me from answering number 3 is that I'm no longer much of an artist, and I think my level of talent wouldn't warrant bringing in such a model. So I'm going with number 1, on the very shaky assumption that a physique like mine would be wanted for such an exercise.