Nude Art Section: Charcoals on paper by Paul Greiner

Body Builder	Relaxed Nude	Striped Dress	Nude Reclining
Drapery	Sleeping Nude	Smiling Nude	Lady Waiting

Censorship Still Threatens Freedom of Expression

".....Take out the nudes and you condemn Michelangelo, Titian, Rembrandt, Manet, and Picasso; take out the nudes and you destroy a living language of visual expression. But more than that, wrapping the human form in shame alienates us from our own bodies. Paradoxically, we live in a culture obsessed with engineering the perfect figure: through relentlessly working out at the gym if possible, through tummy-tucks, acid peels, face-lifts and extreme diets if necessary. Shame and obsession both deny the reality of the imperfect, yet still beautiful in its imperfections, human body. We know some vital connection is broken when 14 year olds look in the mirror and see their skeletal bodies as too fat. Perhaps art offers us a chance to break through the process of alienation, to see once more the grace and truth of the real body—weighed by age, swollen with pregnancy, bent, sagging, flawed—a body through which we see the spirit in all its pain and joy"  Svetlana Mintcheva is NCAC’s Arts Advocacy Coordinator.

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