Crush (Part One)
Name: Moe Leady
Title of Piece: Crush (Part One)
Size: 8 x 8 inches
Medium: Acrylic, colored pencil, acrylic ink, and india ink
Price: 700
Description: Exposure. Nude versus naked. Intimacy. All vulnerable topics that I consider while working with the figure, particularly, in this close-up capacity where escape from the figure is impossible without moving on entirely. I enjoy walking the line of nude and naked to push the boundary of how we have come to accept certain types of exposure and where. My soft and hazy material approach lends itself well to the line of thought of both inviting intimacy and questioning nakedness. What kind of mark is too forward in thought or contrast that it makes the same composition into something vulgar or alarming? What composition is too central or front facing that the subject now has no sense of not being seen? At points my work is possibly a little crass in terms of exposure but never in terms of intention. The only time my personal comfort comes into play within my work is when I need to expose it on social media. I hesitate. Social media is an important game in the world we live in but one with more rules than I initially realized when I started playing. But, my main issue with the view of nude/naked art on social media platforms is that it simplifies it down to one thing. Art is rarely one thing. When playing into making nude art into socially acceptable social media fodder, we push the figure into abstraction or roboticism, or cut the composition to avoid doing either. Social media’s “community guidelines” affect the kind of contemporary art we are seeing and consuming on a daily basis; and although nude art has been a foundation for thousands of years we’re seeing a relative censorship of it now because platforms consider it crass or adult only content. That is not to say that nude art does not exist at all in this sphere, because it does, but only in a certain frame, a socially acceptable one. I generally believe this censorship will lead to a lack of understanding of the historical impact of nude art and at some point will make it overly sexual and humorous to the general public because of the air of taboo now surrounding the contemporary versions thanks to social media.
Name: Moe Leady
Title of Piece: Crush (Part One)
Size: 8 x 8 inches
Medium: Acrylic, colored pencil, acrylic ink, and india ink
Price: 700
Description: Exposure. Nude versus naked. Intimacy. All vulnerable topics that I consider while working with the figure, particularly, in this close-up capacity where escape from the figure is impossible without moving on entirely. I enjoy walking the line of nude and naked to push the boundary of how we have come to accept certain types of exposure and where. My soft and hazy material approach lends itself well to the line of thought of both inviting intimacy and questioning nakedness. What kind of mark is too forward in thought or contrast that it makes the same composition into something vulgar or alarming? What composition is too central or front facing that the subject now has no sense of not being seen? At points my work is possibly a little crass in terms of exposure but never in terms of intention. The only time my personal comfort comes into play within my work is when I need to expose it on social media. I hesitate. Social media is an important game in the world we live in but one with more rules than I initially realized when I started playing. But, my main issue with the view of nude/naked art on social media platforms is that it simplifies it down to one thing. Art is rarely one thing. When playing into making nude art into socially acceptable social media fodder, we push the figure into abstraction or roboticism, or cut the composition to avoid doing either. Social media’s “community guidelines” affect the kind of contemporary art we are seeing and consuming on a daily basis; and although nude art has been a foundation for thousands of years we’re seeing a relative censorship of it now because platforms consider it crass or adult only content. That is not to say that nude art does not exist at all in this sphere, because it does, but only in a certain frame, a socially acceptable one. I generally believe this censorship will lead to a lack of understanding of the historical impact of nude art and at some point will make it overly sexual and humorous to the general public because of the air of taboo now surrounding the contemporary versions thanks to social media.
Name: Moe Leady
Title of Piece: Crush (Part One)
Size: 8 x 8 inches
Medium: Acrylic, colored pencil, acrylic ink, and india ink
Price: 700
Description: Exposure. Nude versus naked. Intimacy. All vulnerable topics that I consider while working with the figure, particularly, in this close-up capacity where escape from the figure is impossible without moving on entirely. I enjoy walking the line of nude and naked to push the boundary of how we have come to accept certain types of exposure and where. My soft and hazy material approach lends itself well to the line of thought of both inviting intimacy and questioning nakedness. What kind of mark is too forward in thought or contrast that it makes the same composition into something vulgar or alarming? What composition is too central or front facing that the subject now has no sense of not being seen? At points my work is possibly a little crass in terms of exposure but never in terms of intention. The only time my personal comfort comes into play within my work is when I need to expose it on social media. I hesitate. Social media is an important game in the world we live in but one with more rules than I initially realized when I started playing. But, my main issue with the view of nude/naked art on social media platforms is that it simplifies it down to one thing. Art is rarely one thing. When playing into making nude art into socially acceptable social media fodder, we push the figure into abstraction or roboticism, or cut the composition to avoid doing either. Social media’s “community guidelines” affect the kind of contemporary art we are seeing and consuming on a daily basis; and although nude art has been a foundation for thousands of years we’re seeing a relative censorship of it now because platforms consider it crass or adult only content. That is not to say that nude art does not exist at all in this sphere, because it does, but only in a certain frame, a socially acceptable one. I generally believe this censorship will lead to a lack of understanding of the historical impact of nude art and at some point will make it overly sexual and humorous to the general public because of the air of taboo now surrounding the contemporary versions thanks to social media.