ronknights opened this issue on Dec 06, 2001 ยท 11 posts
brittmccary posted Thu, 06 December 2001 at 10:41 PM
My comment about the Greek ideal of nudity has nothing to do with ronknights work, which is excellent! I am sorry if my whisper was interpreted as if I didn't like it. :(. I most certainly do. Of course, - we - 2000 years after the Greek period are entitled to imagine what we want, - that is the beauty of working with artistic expressions. I'm well aware of the the mnt Olympus. :) and that "the Olymiade" was the 4 years between the Olympic games. We, - in our "civilized" world tend to forget that the ideals of the times we try to capture might not have been what we fantazise them to be. For the old greeks, nudity wasn't anything shameful, - on the contrary, - they admired the human body. Zeus was mostly pictured nude in the sculpures of him, - as was the other gods of mnt Olympus. http://www.louvre.fr/anglais/collec/ager/br0154/ager_f.htm http://www.louvre.fr/louvrea.htm Britt