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Her own snaps of the male nude combine conventionally attractive and traditionally masculine bodies with a certain playfulness quite unlike the disengaged poses associated with the subject in classical art. to traditions of male potency. The lower legs possess exaggerated, hardened calves (another symbol of male strength that the Taino produced by binding their lower legs with ligatures), which are here decorated with curvilinear designs. The skull-like head on the upper side of the employ the Egyptian grid of proportions and the canonical frontal pose, with arms at sides and left leg advanced. Indeed, this early The male figure is contorted, his clenched fists pressed to his face and his toes clawed, clearly in the grip of the mind-altering drug. The underside of the stool reveals a skeletal ribcage that reinforces the association with dead ancestors, while the displayed sexual organs relate the photographs demonstrate the action and movement of the human body’s limbs and muscles in a way that had previously been impossible. Although originally intended as a scientific study aid (as indicated by the anthropometric grid behind the subject), the photographs of this anonymous runner have transcended their original context to become iconic images in the history of photography, and they represent an important step in the development of cinematography.

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But why does Pittaluga think it's important for contemporary photography to offer visibility to all body types? ‘I hope that one day this kind of question will no longer exist,’she says. ‘I am focused on giving a voice and visibility to those who are not ortoo littlerepresented. It is very important to me to do everything to deconstruct this hegemony, I am committed to invoking all these fights until they are won.’ Fast-forward to 1978, and Margaret Walters observed in her introduction to The Nude Male: A New Perspective that “the male nude is a forgotten subject. For most people the word nude conjures up the image of a naked woman — a pinup in a girlie magazine or a Venus de Milo. Over the last two hundred years or so, most artists interested in the human body have been obsessed by the female nude.”

Art history has, of course, provided no shortage of female nudes to accompany them. But what makes the male nude unique by comparison is the artist’s gaze: Most professional artists have been men, and as such, their self-awareness and — perhaps, more importantly — their desire for or repulsion toward the male figure have influenced their renderings in particular ways, ranging from the contemptuous to the overtly sexual in taboo-challenging ways. For centuries, the example of Renaissance artists who drew their nudes from life made the sketching of naked models central to artistic training. Yet the conventions of the 18th and 19th centuries made male models more respectable than female. In a 1770s painting by Zoffany, all the male academicians of the RA are shown studying a naked man. The two female academicians of the time, Angelica Kauffman and Mary Moser, are shown as portraits on the wall because it was thought indecdent for them to draw a nude man. We generally leave 1/4” - 1/2” of paper showing around the image, to accommodate signatures and for visual appeal.

an anatomical model) that would help him accurately represent the bone structure and musculature of the saint’s body. His study was highly praised by his anatomy tutor as well as his fellow students, who urged him not to modify it further. The sculpture was soon bought by the Académie de France in Rome, where it became required study for subsequent students; copies were soon to be found in art academies all over Europe. Renaissance artists revived the nude after about 1,000 years in which sexualised naked images had been banned from art by the medieval Roman Catholic church. Like their classical inspirations, they started with the male form. Donatello’s eroticised bronze statue of David was created about four decades before Botticelli’s Birth of Venus. In the 16th century, it was the openly gay Michelangelo who defined the High Renaissance with his heroically tortured male nudes, including a full-frontal Christ whose loins the church still sees fit to cover with bronze underpants. is the only extant example that perfectly matches the Egyptian canon of human proportions as described by the Greek historian Diodoros in the first century BC. The Greek works differ from Egyptian figures, however, in being nude and carved in the round. Moreover, the decorative traditions of the preceding Geometric period (10th–8th centuries BC) can be seen in the patterns used to represent the essential elements of the human form: here, the curves of the pectorals are repeated in the kneecaps and eyebrows, and the angles of the ribcage are reflected in the elbows and groin. Stylization of hair and facial features extends to the fat cheeks, wide eyes, arched eyebrows and spiral ears. Over the next century sculptors would integrate these patterns into a more naturalistic whole, resulting in the much more subtle and relaxed form of the last of the