By doing the daring shoot the squad hopes that they will raise the profile of the Hitchin Ladies rugby team (pictured, a snap from last year's calendar)

It’s that kind of closeness, coming out of a spirit of care and generosity, that one senses again and again in Nude and that makes this show such a revealing experience.Where does In Her Rooms stand in relation to today’s mainstream representation of womanhood? And i s there a specific reason why you chose female nudes over other ways of representing women? Our club is a lot of fun and we like to play good rugby - hopefully people looking at the calendar will see that we like to have fun.' In 1485, Botticelli became the first artist to paint a female nude without a religious reason. Nothing like it had been seen before in Europe! It is an almost life-size female nude, measuring 172.5 by 278.5 centimetres, and is a representation of Venus who gracefully reveals her body. Kim Kardashian posted this naked selfie in response to critics speculating about whether her second pregnancy is 'real'.

Of course, we cannot forget the painting The Origin of the World by Gustave Courbet, which caused a scandal with the public and at the Salons in 1866. Without censorship, it represents the female vagina. Courbet rejected academic painting and its idyllic, idealized versions of the nude. His painting always challenged the limits of the presentable. 5. Impressionism: The Women Nude in all its splendor Calls to boycott Net-a-Porter and MyTheresa after luxury fashion platforms axe Israeli fashion designer Dodo Bar Or for 'posting video comparing Hamas to ISIS' Flirty and playful vixen Simon Kitty stuns everyone with her seductive body in Never Leave My Bed S4 E16

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Representations of naked female forms, mostly white, in European culture have existed throughout art history. For centuries these female figures defined ‘High Art’, the sexuality of these figures was permitted under the guise of mythological figures, nude female figures were represented as idealised gods not earthly women. From Titian’s sixteenth century representation of Venus of Urbino (1538) to Rembrandt’s Danaë of 1636. Later in the eighteenth century in Jean-Honoré Fragonard The Raised Chemise, 1770, this mythological context is only vaguely alluded and the sensuality of this canvas can be compared to Manet’s 1863, Luncheon, a modern woman has discarded all her clothes confidently and sits with fully clothed men. More recently Lucien Freud’s celebration of the fleshiness of the female form envelops the canvas . I hope people get a calendar as it is for a really good cause and if they liked last years they'll love this years.' Bringing together 30 artists from 20 different countries who are shooting portraits all over the world, Nude offers a global perspective on the human form. Among other things, this broad cultural range lets the the exhibition wrestle with the question of how the meaning of a woman taking a nude portrait differs from society to society, as well as how the female gaze changes from one context to another. In 1425, the Italian painter Masaccio created a fresco representing Adam and Eve driven out of Eden, for the church of Santa Maria del Carmine in Florence. While Adam lowers his eyes and hides his face, Eve hides her nakedness, her eyes spinning and her mouth open as if she were screaming. Above them, we see an angel dressed in red who points to the exit. The two characters are bent over, ashamed and afraid to leave Eden. Masolino

Raven haired seductress pleasures her lover with a blowjob before she gets on top of him and takes control The body is a fantastic source of inspiration for an artist because it is simultaneously the embodiment of beauty, desire, reverie and the forbidden. And it is often the nude paintings that cause scandal in art. Over the centuries and across movements, nude paintings have created an aesthetic of the body and beauty. Beyond the subject represented, the painters create imagery of the human body, often very personal and sometimes even against the artistic rules of their time. Let Artsper take you on the journey of a brief history of the women nude painting through art… 1. Middle Ages and Pre-Renaissance: The Sacred NudeAt the time, Cézanne could not convince himself to invite real women to pose nude for him. Some critics believe that through this painting, Cézanne wanted to represent his fear of women, as a kind of harassment of these female bodies that make him so uncomfortable. such as Botticelli? And how would we compare it to other female artists depictions of naked female figures?