Featured J. Singer Bronze Statue Sculpture

Yes, it is. I am quite surprised by the reaction, because this is an antiques forum which includes art.
Nudity, whether voluptuous or otherwise, is regarded as normal in the arts, where I'm from. And the only way to see the beauty of a sculpture is to show every side of it. So you were quite right to show it.

Signed:
A lifelong visitor of Pulchri(!) Studio in the Hague. Pulchri to me has always meant beauty, of any kind.

 

You have always been my favorite person on here, thanks!

 

I've been in the arts my entire life. Done the degree, gallery shows of my work, presented lectures, guested industry events, and had a varied career. I have created many nudes and works way more "racy" than this lol!

I also like jokes, like any artist that has produced this sort of thing. Nudity is no big deal, but it's not like artists (and viewers) aren't sexual beings? If the artist on this piece created that nude in a clinical fashion, it would not look as it does...and I would expect that's the point.

 

I guess we'll have to disagree. I don't know why the artist created this nude, I don't know him or her.
It could have been a celebration of the female body as a beautiful form, or not.
It could also have been inspired by Stone Age 'Venus' figurines.
In fact, my first association was with the "Venus of Dolní Věstonice", which I'm sure you learned about in art college or university. This statue is more elegant though.

 

Nudity is no big deal, but it's not like artists (and viewers) aren't sexual beings?

If u paint with a wider brush , you will encounter many cultures and persons who are not sexual beings , by nature or by teaching , and they find nudity to be disgusting and a thing to be hidden away and shunned !

 

Or they regard nudity in a non-sexual way.
There are so many possibilities. And after all, nudity is natural, it doesn't have to be associated with giggles.

 

Farts ...too, are natural....but my wife grew up in a house..where you could not.....it was forbidden......& gawd only knows how she and her siblings...did not Blow Up !!!

 

& farts and giggles go hand in hand !!...... so to speak !

 

In our house it wasn't forbidden, but not considered proper either. We were expected to go away if we felt gas coming, they probably did too.

I wouldn't go out naked, that is also a taboo. But I wouldn't giggle at a normal statue of a nude, to me that comes across as oldfashioned, but I am from another culture.
If it is really grotesque, that is another story.

 

We were expected to go away if we felt gas coming,.........

Like..... Amsterdam ...or Japan......or just the next room!!!

hehehehehe!!!!!!

even today....my wife will not fart in front of her sister.......or behind her.....or in earshot !!!

 

They may have prefered Japan, but it was usually the next room, or the toilet.

I don't think I've ever farted near my brother. Mind you, that would have been difficult over the last few weeks, because my IBS was in a very flatulent (and painful) phase. It is a lot better now.

 

I mean no disrespect to your inflamed parts.........

 

My inflamed parts don't feel insulted, so everything's alright.

 

Words, you want words? How about steatopygous & callipygous (which is an epithet of Aphrodite.)

 

These types being named "Venus" with the association to the goddess and her cult are certainly an indication of what those scholars consider their purpose. And you can see their point because when you make a figure with prominent focus on reproductive and sexual organs, and not her face as an individual, or her limbs....it makes the intent pretty clear. So yes, if that is what you think of...we agree! A sculpture following standard abstraction for it's type, focusing on TnA, with no individual face and less developed limbs is pretty clear on message. You can call it "beauty of female form" and I would say that's a polite way of saying "the parts traditionally considered sexy." Nothing wrong with that. Clearly many of us got that message straight away.

Not talking about sex and it's relation to what people make is considered "old fashioned" and prudish in the industries I'm in. People aren't "giggling" because they've never seen a butt before, of course. They relate to a fine example of one!

Humor is natural! Relating to art and having individual feelings about it is the point, and I'm grateful we can all share them here.

 

Certainly not this artist! They definitely appreciated some mature "forms"! And now we can too.

I grew up in a house where it was not forbidden and used as a loud and noxious weapon of disrespect by certain members, so in my house the intentional ones are forbidden!

 

Omg I will quiz the husband later to see if he also knows these and will be very proud if he does. Now you have to share the story of learning them... I'm going to be concerned if it was also a professor speaking of students.

 

I got to see a most beautiful piece of art and learn a new word at the same time. I agree, don't EVER part with her! She is the epitome of being pulchritude!

 

Think I would have learned 'callipygous' in a college mythology class, as a descriptor of Aphrodite. Can't recall about the other. A now outdated anthropological study?