How is nudity used in art in different ways

One artist who uses nudity in their work is Jenny Saville, and the way in which she uses nudity is by using herself as a model and laying her body over glass in somewhat unaesthetically pleasing positions and folds and stretches her skin around, allowing everything to be visible over glass. The significance behind her art was to challenge society, and how the majority see a females body to have to be beautiful and shame in not having one, and Saville's work is a proverbial mockery to that belief by confidently making herself look ugly.







Another photographer whom involves nudity is Joel Peter Witkin, but unlike Saville however he uses nudity in a complete different way, he photographs models whom have physical impairments naked with a unique background, generally in a Gothic Victorian atmosphere. Witkins has claimed the reason he does this is because he finds beauty to be from uniqueness and difference, and that he got bored at seeing the same generic styled models being used to represent beauty when he had a difference of opinion that he wanted to express.







Man Ray is a photographer whom unlike Witkins or Saville, uses nudity in his photography to represent natural beauty rather than a signification for an opinion, one of his most famous pieces a model whom is naked with her back facing the camera and violin shaped marks are drawn onto her back, this together with her hour glass figure curves shows the beauty and simplicity of a human body, by comparing it to that of an musical instrument which is considered harmonious to listen too.Man Ray's other naked photography pieces are using the human body, not for their details or meanings as such, but more the overall shape of the outlines and the idea of un-tampered natural beauty to be positioned over his photograph, almost in an abstract style.