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The Nude

"The nude occupies a unique niche in art. To the artist it is, in one sense, himself that he is depicting, the one object in nature that he knows the most intimately and to which he responds in a unique way. This response derives directly from sexuality, and is complicated by the array of attitudes and taboos that have grown up around sex in every society in the world. There is no nude study that does not have its sensual or erotic element, however detached the artist -or the viewer- may believe himself to be. It is for this reason that people view the nude as they view no other object."