Erotic painting: a symphony of nude bodies in colors and canvases

Painting - the history and culture of a particular people and humanity as a whole, imprinted in pencils and paints on canvases and paper, the walls of palaces and temples. Art is eternal, and therefore the canvases of Leonardo and Velasquez, Rubens and Botticelli, Giorgione and Goya and many other great masters who managed to transmit through the amazing beauty and grace of the curves of the female body the sublime spirit of the Beautiful - liberation and inner Freedom - have come to us through the dark ages.

Erotica in European art

Erotic painting as the very fact of existence is fixed even in the art of the ancient Greeks and Romans. If you recall the ancient amphorae, the pictures that adorned them depict group genre scenes or individual characters - the heroes of legends and myths, naked and do not hide their piquant parts of the body. The cult of the human body that existed at that time made it possible to depict it without hindrance in sculptures, paintings, objects of everyday life and luxury. Erotic painting was not an exception. True, creating their works, ancient artists and sculptors put forward not the sexuality of their models, but sought to show the harmony of proportions, the proportionality of parts of the body: well-developed muscles, powerful torsos, strong legs of men. Such are, for example, the images of Hercules, Jason, Perseus, Roman and Greek gods. They were warrior-men, heroes-warriors, and it was such a given fact that the artists of the ancient world underlined . And the fact that their models were nude was considered perfectly normal. In the beauty of the body did not see anything shameful, to admire them was natural and not disgraceful.

Erotic painting and sculpture, the subject of which was a woman, also came under this category. Moreover, sexuality itself, erotic cults, rituals that took place in the temples of Venus, Dionysus and the like were also included in the ancient culture and were not perceived as immoral, immoral, forbidden. It is not for nothing that ancient times are called the childhood of mankind. People are not blinded by the artificial framework of "civilization", are natural in their manifestations, are close to nature, and therefore are great both in anger and in love.

With the emergence and spread in Europe of Christianity, the approach and attitude toward art have completely changed. It increasingly loses gender, becomes asexual in the sense that artists are forbidden to emphasize in their paintings male and female. Erotic painting is sent to a long exile. But this does not mean that the great masters of brush and canvas have ceased to be carried away by women and love. Contrary to all prohibitions and strictures of punishments, he paints his Cayetan Alba Goya in the form of naked mahi. Not less boldly do other creators, perpetuating the naked delights of unknown models.

By the way, gradually in the European art of drawing this trend is gaining momentum: on canvases without clothes, female heroines are increasingly appearing. They sleep, stretched out in languid poses, admiring their reflection in the mirror, rest after bathing, sitting on the shore of the lake. They are lined with light covers, emphasizing the sexuality of the image, exciting imagination, or the entire body is presented to the review. But what is important! Whichever way the author presents his heroine, the aesthetic beginning comes first: admiring the forms, the color of the skin, the play of light and shadow, the general impression produced by the woman painted on the canvas.

The Renaissance was the launching pad for a new, strongest outburst of all kinds and genres of art in general, and painting in particular. The artist received more freedom and opportunities for self-expression, and the best canvases with female images - the fruit of their work and skill. Remember the incredibly feminine Danae with the Swan-Zeus da Vinci, the gentle, quivering Venus of Botticelli, just emerged from the sea foam or Venus with Cupid Boucher ... Enumerate for a long time. The main thing is that both in the era of the Late Renaissance, and in the 18th century, and further erotica in painting blossoms in a magnificent color, and right up until today, the wonderful creations of this genre admire and deeply touch us.

East is a very delicate matter

Pictures in the style of "nude" are inherent not only in European art, but also in the art of the peoples of the East and Asia. Suffice it to recall that the first "alphabet" of sex with detailed picture-illustrations was created by Indians, and it happened long before the appearance of us with you. India, Japan, China, as countries with ancient, highly developed civilizations, could not bypass in this art this most important aspect of human life.

For example, Japanese erotic painting was mostly represented in engravings, and the direction itself was called "spring pictures". It was especially popular in the period from the 17th to the beginning of the 20th century and had its own nuances and specifics. For example, the characters were depicted in clothes and even headdresses, and the emphasis was on the genitals, which were even somewhat hyperbolized. But all the attention of the author and the viewer focused on the overall color of the picture, the combination of colors, tones, juiciness of hues, dynamics of composition.

The modern erotic art of Japan - hentai - is a kind of continuation of the sun. By the way, if you compare the Land of the Rising Sun with the Celestial Empire, then it is erotic Chinese painting, pictures in the style of "nu" of local artists and became the parents of those "spring pictures" that glorified Hishikawa Moronobu, Yanagawa Shigenobu and other Japanese artists. As for China, the Ming era is considered the flowering of erotica in painting, drawing, sculpture. And the most courageous and talented are the works of Lamochil.

Conclusion

In chanting the beauty of the human body there is nothing reprehensible, base, dirty, vulgar. And look at the pictures of old and modern masters follows precisely from these positions: not lusting, not savoring anatomical details, but admiring and admiring. It is this view that distinguishes a man of subtle, civilized, cultural from the primitive savage.