Greetings everyone, I hope you have an excellent weekend, I started a new knitting art project today and I am very excited about how it is turning out, I hope to make the most of these days and have it ready for Monday, but visual impairment does not It allows me to knit at night, that's why I take that time to relax and write in Hive, so I happily found the interesting proposals made by @galenkp in Weekend-Engagement 169, I chose a topic that reminded me of very nice experiences from the past, I hope you like it like to read my answer to the question:
You can either be a nude model being photographed or the photographer taking the shots of a nude model, which you choose and why?
Nude modeling is one of the things that, although it is very old, continues to generate taboo, controversy and also morbidity among most people, however, the human body is one of the most interesting forms of art, it contains all plastic elements of the art, lines, volumes that generate lights and shadows, visual and tactile textures, it also has the ability to move, which is why it can generate tension or forces within the compositional plane, in addition to this, each body is unique, which is why it is an excellent model for the art.
In my time as a university student at the Dean of Plastic Arts, it was very difficult to get models for live nudes, nude models could optionally be used for any subject such as Plastic Language and Artistic Expression Techniques, but in the case of subjects Anatomical Drawing and Sculpture, it was completely necessary because it was obviously part of the content to be studied, however, it was very difficult for someone to want to pose nude, almost always the students ended up posing because they understood very well that the objective was learning.
In my career I did not specifically study photography, but I did have the opportunity to draw and sculpt looking at a nude model and it was one of the best learning experiences I have ever had, but I also served as a nude model myself in a sculpture class where my colleagues did wonderful jobs looking at my body. This happened in 2017 and one of the friends who made a clay sculpture that later went through a process of molding and casting in plaster, was my friend @Yetsimar, who very kindly gave me the photographs that I show below (I must clarify that at that time I was thinner than today 😅)
Sculpture of my body made by @yetsimar
The experience of posing nude in this case for the sculpture class, I really liked, because I had known all my classmates for several years, I trusted them and our teacher Benigno Gonzalez who is a magnificent sculptor, at no time did I feel that they were looking at me in a lascivious way, because artists look at plastic elements, such as those I mentioned at the beginning, instead of seeing the breasts we see the volume that they generate, instead of the waist we see a contour or silhouette, that is, all serious artists in your profession and in your art you will never see a woman or a man in your mind, you will see a body just as you might see a vase of flowers.
Sculpture that I made from a nude model
On the other hand, strange as it may seem, men from my country have more taboo to model nude, however, for a sculpture class I convinced my friend @eduardocastillo to model and he did it, I don't have photos of the work we do in that class, but it was very good because a man is a much more difficult model to do than a woman, this due to the musculature that can be seen in areas like the back for example. However, there were very few students who were willing to strip naked in favor of learning, there is still a lot of taboo and this does not benefit art students who want to practice and develop skills, most of the time these students do not find another way out more than using nude images found on the web, which most of the time does not work well because it would be guided by a two-dimensional image, also many photos are of pornographic origin and unfortunately the bodies there do not look natural 😔
Some charcoal drawings I did many years ago using image references from the web
Finally to answer the question, I would say that I am not good with photography but I would like to draw or make a sculpture of someone naked again, on the other hand, I am willing to accept to pose nude only for some artistic proposal such as drawing, painting or sculpture, As long as I trust the artist and know his artistic work in advance, I limit myself to the subject of photography due to the vulnerability that the possible leak of images without his consent presents to the model. As a mother, I would not mind if my son sees a nude of My in a museum or a gallery, but with photography it's different, especially since monetization of such content is common these days on the web, so I wouldn't want to be photographed.
