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  2. Figure drawing - Wikipedia

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    A life drawing is a drawing of the human figure, traditionally nude, from observation of a live model. Creating life drawings, or life studies, in a life class, has been a large element in the traditional training of artists in the Western world since the Renaissance. A figure drawing may be a composed work of art or a figure study done in ...

  3. Model (art) - Wikipedia

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    A life class for adults at the Brooklyn Museum, under the auspice of the New York City WPA Art Project (1935). An art model is a person who poses, often nude, for visual artists as part of the creative process, providing a reference for the human body in a work of art.

  4. Figure study - Wikipedia

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    A figure study is a drawing or painting of the human body made in preparation for a more composed or finished work; [1] or to learn drawing and painting techniques in general and the human figure in particular. By preference, figure studies are done from a live model, but may also include the use of other references [2] and the imagination of ...

  5. Model (person) - Wikipedia

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    A female model posing on a typical studio shooting set. A model is a person with a role either to display commercial products (notably fashion clothing in fashion shows) or to serve as an artist's model. Modelling ("modeling" in American English) entails using one's body to represent someone else's body or someone's artistic imagination of a ...

  6. File:Bindu and Kundalini Models of Hatha Yoga.svg - Wikipedia

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  7. Depictions of nudity - Wikipedia

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    In modern media, images of partial and full nudity are used in advertising to draw attention. In the case of attractive models this attention is due to the visual pleasure the images provide; in other cases it is due to the relative rarity of such images. The use of nudity in advertising tends to be carefully controlled to avoid the impression ...

  8. Nude (art) - Wikipedia

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    This way of representing the nude female figure in art was focused on the fact that women were in control of their own image. The central image was focused on vulva -related symbols. By incorporating new images and symbols into the female nude image in Western art, the feminist art history movement continues to try and dismantle the male ...

  9. Figure painting - Wikipedia

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    The Golden Apple of Discord at the wedding of Peleus and Thetis, Jacob Jordaens, 1633, 181 cm × 288 cm (71 in × 113 in), oil on canvas. A figure painting is a work of fine art in any of the painting media with the primary subject being the human figure, whether clothed or nude.