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  2. Depictions of nudity - Wikipedia

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    Nose art may portray largely unclothed or nude women. Examples of nose arts could be dated back to the First World War. But it was not until the Second that this movement truly took off. Nose arts could be found on both Allied and Axis aircraft. Some observers have argued that the Second World War was the golden age for this style of art. [52]

  3. After the Bath, Woman Drying Herself - Wikipedia

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    The work depicts a woman sitting on white towels spread over a wicker chair, with her back to the viewer. Her body is arched and slightly twisted, creating a tension in her back, accentuated by the deep line of her backbone. One hand dries her neck with a towel, presumably after the woman exited the tin bath in the corner of the room. The other ...

  4. Seated Woman with Bent Knees - Wikipedia

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    Seated Woman with Bent Knees [a] is a 1917 painting in gouache, watercolor, and black crayon on paper by the Austrian Expressionist artist Egon Schiele.. As its name suggests, the piece features a woman, depicted in a seated pose.

  5. History of the nude in art - Wikipedia

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    Classical art [Note 2] is the art developed in ancient Greece and Rome, whose scientific, material and aesthetic advances contributed to the history of art a style based on nature and the human being, where harmony and balance, the rationality of forms and volumes, and a sense of imitation ("mimesis") of nature prevailed, laying the foundations ...

  6. Vagina and vulva in art - Wikipedia

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    The outer form is a giant reclining sculpture of a woman with her legs spread. Museum patrons can go inside her body by entering a door-sized vaginal opening. [22] Saint Phalle stated that the sculpture represented a fertility goddess who was able to receive visitors into her body and then "give birth" to them again. [23] Inside her body is a ...

  7. Sheela na gig - Wikipedia

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    One of the best examples may be found in the Round Tower at Rattoo, in County Kerry, Ireland. There is a replica of the Round Tower sheela na gig in the County Museum in Tralee town. Another well-known example may be seen at Kilpeck in Herefordshire, England. The carvings may have been used to ward off death, evil and demons.

  8. Photo of woman crossing her legs on a subway is baffling the ...

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    Or as DeadpoolWilson comically put it, "Let me just break my legs real quick." Editors at Mashable even gave it a go and documented their results . It seems like you're either a natural pretzel ...

  9. Nude (art) - Wikipedia

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    The intersection of their identities, as Nelson asserts, creates a "doubly fetishized black female body". Women of color are not represented to the degree that white women are in nude art from the Renaissance to the 1990s, and when they are represented it is in a different way than white women.