Depictions of nudity

code is a constitutionally permissible limitation on an individual’s First Amendment right of free speech. STATEMENT OF THE CASE LDHS has a dress code policy that prohibits students from wearing clothing “with inappropriate writing or graphic depictions that offend anyone or distract from or disrupt the educational experience of other students” under penalty of suspension. On December 15, 2016, in honor…

on dry land (a seashell) having emerged from the ocean beneath her. In combining the symbolic meaning of water in regards to rebirth, nudity in regards to femininity and sexuality, and the artistic Renaissance nature, the picture represents a revival of a woman. Regardless of the fact cousin Charlotte's dissuasion in purchasing this picture because of it’s nudity, Lucy buys it anyway. Lucy is in a sense experiencing her own revival, not only in her thoughts but through her actions. Despite, this…

The Standing Buddha is made out of cast bronze, gold, shell, and resin. The emphasis of the muscularity of the Statuette of a youth, probably Apollo shows how important the body is to the the Greeks. The Standing Buddha gives the viewer a visual depiction of a “Buddha”, or someone who is free from all faults and mental obstructions. Through the sculptor’s…

beauty, of the Renaissance that still remains fairly unknown in purpose and depiction; and Judith Slaying Holofernes, picturing the high levels of drama as well as the overwhelming authority of the Catholic church common within the Baroque period through the portrayal of a strong and heroic woman. Though from different times, all of these works reflect upon the artistic…

In the present day, it is not uncommon to see some type of sex scene in films, especially in rated R movies. Nudity and sex used to be considered taboo, but now they are quite frequently displayed. Every once in a while a movie will go as far to show a rape scene, which is evidently a negative sex scene. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011), directed by David Fincher, is a movie about a man named Mikael Blomkvist, who is hired to solve a missing person case. During his quest, he forms a…

exist beyond reality and so do not constrain the meaning of the image to the possible. One of the important ideas behind the rise of pictorialism was the belief that whilst straight photography could accurately represent an image, it was merely a depiction of reality without any artistic interpretation or meaning and so lacked artistic merit. Pictorialism was developed so that photography would be seen as a branch of art. Pictorial style images use specific techniques, such as smearing vaseline…

skin in his right hand. These objects help identify the figure, since Herakles nearly always appears with a club and the skin of the Nemean Lion, which he killed as his first labor. As is typical for depictions of Greek heroes, the young Herakles is shown nude, since the Greeks considered male nudity to be the highest form of beauty. No other god or hero is as frequently depicted in Greek and Roman art as is Herakles. Shortly after its discovery, the statue was reworked in Rome, probably by…

I emerged from Central Park to see an immense temple of art towering above me. As I walked up the massive stone steps, to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, I was overwhelmed by the enormity of the building and how small I was in comparison. A wave of clarity washed over me creating a sense that I was about to witness something larger than myself. Once I walked inside, I stared up to the large vaulted ceilings and to the long corridors full of masses of people admiring the history in front of…

originally from Wisconsin, O’Keeffe moved to New Mexico later in her life. This became the place of inspiration for many of her best works. Among these works, the Grey Line with Black, Blue, and Yellow flower is yet another of her iconic but predictable depictions of her style. It is a representational painting, an objective view of the subject…

sculptures are statues that depict ideals, and heroic and non-heroic acts. Both sculptures are also nude, a feature of most Greek sculptures. Being hero worshippers, the Greek preferred to make their sculptures in the nude, considering that they perceived nudity as beauty. Consequently, both sculptures meet the Greek art feature of nude men, women, goddesses, and gods. However, whereas Agora depicts nude people of the World War II and the 1970s when the arts were made, the Dying Niobe…