Artistic Nude, Or Plain Naked?

May 4, 2015

With the proliferation of photography online, fans, social media enthusiasts and artists can easily differentiate between high quality photographs and those of low quality. Question is, can they differentiate artistic nude photographs and plain nude?

Let’s talk of the artistic nude: they portray size, curves, lines, shapes, highlights, abstracts, shadow contrasts of the human body. Here, we talk of a portrait of someone who is untouchable, example, the naked Greek Gods and Goddesses. Would you term that as naked portraiture or artistic nude?

Then there is the naked. She is touchable, you can have her, she is accessible. She’s not nude, she is plain naked.

Here are a few artistic nudes by Somto Maduka of Imagio Photography, and Hakeem Salaam of HSP Images