Monty by Jim Meddick for September 11, 2011

May we never darken the door of The (or A) Mildred Museum! Americans need to get a grip on the differences among nudity, eroticism, and pornography.

On the other hand, it’s more than a little disingenuous to believe that the appeal of nudes (for both artists and audiences) is simply due to the interesting way light and shadow are balanced over the forms.

Yes, there are interesting technical challenges in modelling the human form, but still… Woo-hoo! That pretty girl is NEKKID!

http://www.theonion.com/articles/a-complete-history-of-art,16871/

I took some art classes a few years back and we drew nude models. People would laugh when they found out but I would be “Oh, its all part of art to understand light, ..blah blah blah”..of course when they brought in a certain guy, I kept thinking “Oh my, that guy is sooooooo nekkid…and how!”

he has perfecly opaque discus that he could have used to cover up. such an exhibitionist tsk tsk

Lewis Grizzard once did a wonderful essay on the difference between “naked” and “nekkid.” It appears that others may have read that, too. Sort of like “art” and “porn.”