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Failed Serenade>>> Íon, Invidia <<<More Like This
With quiet disdain
It was only fear that I feared
Thought I was someone else for you to use
Envy burned away
As I fell immune to all of your tears
I guess you were still all mine
Mine to lose
Our minds aflame
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Good Nudes vs. Bad Nudes?:icontechgnotic:More Like This
Foreword by $techgnotic
Tue Nov 1, 2011, 3:23 PM
Contours in Context
The 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 of
human history for our sense of what is beautiful and what initiates all our seminal ineffable sublime feelings
about the nature of love, life, desire, destiny, eternity, ad infinitum. The curvatures and symmetries of the
human body even lay the geometric basis for the artistic structures of all our art forms, not only for the visual
arts but also for literature and architecture. Given the primacy of the body as the beginning of all that we are
in life, and given the eye as the primary receiver for the collection of all information in our lives, how could
the artistic nude not be a massively represented art form on a global arts forum like deviantART? And besides,
nudes are something peo
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