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Gallery of Nudes is one of the best free online galleries and a unique resource of fine art nude photography. Since 15 years the most famous and ambitious artists can be found here, introducing their works and most attractive pieces of work. In the beginning we focused on fine art photographs of couples, but since we broadened the focus on other works in six new galleries, showing masterpieces of nude photography from classical stiles to exclusive images from Body in Mind, Femjoy, MetArt, Playboy and other journals. Gallery of Nudes started in with the idea to build a high quality community for photographers and visitors showing only ambitious nude art photographs from couples. Referring to our 5th anniversary in we expanded our galleries with some new categories: in these new galleries you can find high quality photographs of expectant mothers, a preview of the best erotic pay sites and galleries with classic nude photography.

At the time the Black Lives Matter campaign in the UK was drawing the national spotlight to the statues of slave traders , another activist was highlighting the way women are represented in civic statuary. It shows a seated man bathing his feet surrounded by a clutch of fawning semi-naked women. The placard bearer is ArtActivistBarbie, a Barbie doll posed in front of artworks and monuments, and the playful alter ego of Sarah Williamson, a senior lecturer at the University of Huddersfield. Williamson began the project as way to engage students with feminist ideas, and in particular the way women are portrayed in art. In a Twitter post , ArtActivistBarbie imagines the commissioning of the painting Circe by Wright Barker, which shows a topless woman surrounded by lions. For more than years, feminists have drawn attention to sexist attitudes that exist within the art world. The painting portrays Venus looking in the mirror, turned away from the viewer with her bottom at the centre of the canvas.

Depictions of nudity include visual representations of nudity throughout history, in disciplines including the arts and sciences. Nudity is restricted in most societies , but some depictions of nudity may serve a recognized social function. Clothing also serves as a significant part of interpersonal communication , and a lack of clothing in public is expected to have a social context.

The nude , as a form of visual art that focuses on the unclothed human figure, is an enduring tradition in Western art. Unclothed figures often also play a part in other types of art, such as history painting , including allegorical and religious art , portraiture , or the decorative arts. From prehistory to the earliest civilizations, nude female figures are generally understood to be symbols of fertility or well-being. Japanese prints are one of the few non-western traditions that can be called nudes, but the activity of communal bathing in Japan is portrayed as just another social activity, without the significance placed upon the lack of clothing that exists in the West.