nudes
Art without clothing
Nudes are images depicting naked human bodies, especially photographs or artworks shared digitally.
The singular nude refers to a naked figure in art or to a naked state: The model posed nude.
In contemporary usage, nudes typically means sexually explicit photos exchanged privately: She asked him to send nudes.
The noun also describes a pale beige color resembling light skin tones: nude lipstick, nude heels.
Representation or paradigm
- poseDeliberate bodily arrangement
- anatomyStudy of organism structure
- torsoBody without limbs
- recliningLeaning backward at rest
odalisque · bather · Venus · Olympia · drapery · classical · neoclassical · Titian
Restricted to certain parties
- sensualOf bodily pleasure
- eroticSexually stimulating
- revealingMaking known what's hidden
- explicitClearly and directly expressed
risqué · provocative · suggestive · titillating · seductive · alluring · bare · exposed
Woman's private chamber
- glamourFascinating, elegant attractiveness
- figureOutline or numeral
- portraitArtistic depiction of someone
- studioCreative professional's workspace
lighting · monochrome · silhouette · artistic · implied · tasteful · shadow · contour
Out in open
- unprotectedWithout safeguard or shield
- defenselessWithout means to resist
- rawIn original state
- nakedWearing no garments
stripped · unguarded · sensitive · self-conscious · consent · privacy · leak · exploitation
model
Representation or paradigm
reclining · odalisque · bather · Venus · Olympia · drapery · classical · neoclassical · Titian · Rubens
private
Restricted to certain parties
explicit · risqué · provocative · suggestive · titillating · seductive · alluring · bare · exposed · flesh
boudoir
Woman's private chamber
- glamourFascinating, elegant attractiveness
- figureOutline or numeral
- portraitArtistic depiction of someone
studio · lighting · monochrome · silhouette · artistic · implied · tasteful · shadow · contour · composition
exposed
Out in open
- unprotectedWithout safeguard or shield
- defenselessWithout means to resist
- rawIn original state
naked · stripped · unguarded · sensitive · self-conscious · consent · privacy · leak · exploitation · shame
- sculpturesstatues, busts, classical sculptures, bronze sculptures, marble sculptures
- Renaissance artMichelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Botticelli, Titian
- Gender Artfeminist art, female gaze, male gaze, gender expression, gender identity
- painting genresportraiture, portraits, landscape, landscapes, still life
- women in paintingportraits, Madonna, Venus, odalisque, self-portraits
- sculpturestatue, sculpture, sculptor, sculpting, bronze
nudesstill lifes
Paintings of objects
landscapes · seascapes · cityscapes · abstracts · botanical illustrations
nudesfully dressed
- in the nudeWearing no clothes
- nude sceneFootage featuring undressed actors
- the nudeState of undress
- nude beachShoreline permitting undress
- brief nudityShort unclothed moment
- full frontal nudityUnobstructed view of unclothed body