Good Nudes vs. Bad Nudes?:icontechgnotic:Foreword by $techgnoticTue Nov 1, 2011, 3:23 PMContours in ContextThe argument for the nude in art:Our visual perception of the human face and then the human body has set the basis since the beginning ofhuman history for our sense of what is beautiful and what initiates all our seminal ineffable sublime feelingsabout the nature of love, life, desire, destiny, eternity, ad infinitum. The curvatures and symmetries of thehuman body even lay the geometric basis for the artistic structures of all our art forms, not only for the visualarts but also for literature and architecture. Given the primacy of the body as the beginning of all that we arein life, and given the eye as the primary receiver for the collection of all information in our lives, how couldthe artistic nude not be a massively represented art form on a global arts forum like deviantART? And besides,nudes are something peo