Nude And Pornography

The history of nude in art dates back to the Stone Age, with the female Venus figurines. In Ancient Greek art unclothed human bodies were commonly represented. Later, artists, such as Botticelli, Michelangelo, Durer, Titian, Rembrandt, Klimt and Modigliani created celebrated nude paintings. The difference between art and pornography can be subtle. In the 19th century of France Eduard Manet's Le Dejeuner sur l'herbe (1863) created an extensive scandal by showing a naked woman in the company of two fully dressed men. Paris critics considered the painting immoral. The same model, Victorine Meurent, is also the protagonist of anothe 1863 canvas by Manet, Mademoiselle Victorine in he Costume of an Espada (bull fighter matador) . This time the painting caused a public visual shock because it showed a woman holding a sword and cross-dressed in a masculine manner.