Amazing Body Painted Art of Female. Unbelievable

Amazing Body Painted Art of Female. Unbelievable

Amazing Body Painted Art of Female. Unbelievable

Amazing Body Painted Art of Female. Unbelievable

Sex sells, that's for sure. There is a long list of artists who have made a name for themselves by doing unusual nudes or by introducing erotica into their works. Call it a justifiable excuse for wealthy people to hang erotica on the wall without getting grief for it. And certainly nudity is a beautiful and tasteful subject matter in fine art. Some of the most famous artists to have introduced nudity or erotic subject matters into their paintings are Modigliani, Picasso, Matisse and Klimt. Some have been more subtle with it than others.

Modigliani's tasteful, elegant and classic nudes are now worth many millions apiece. Picasso introduced nudity into his work in crafty ways, such as the penis imagery in the head of the female figure of his now world famous painting "The Dream" from his enormous body of work. It is worth well over $100 million. Not bad for a painting that evidence shows he painted in a few days. Picasso painted many sexually charged paintings over his prolific artistic life.

Erotica in art dates back to the beginnings of art, however. Even the cave men scrawled sexually charged works on the inside of cave walls. But sex for sex sake is simply porn and shouldn't be counted as a work of art per se. And whether it be in sculpture or in a painting, an elegant depiction of the nude female form can hold particular interest in the marketplace. I've personally painted a few nudes, and plan to do more. The critic for Time magazine once said that the person who discovers a new way to paint a nude is a person who the world will beat a path to their door. So maybe it's time to pull out the flesh colored paint.

Some of my favorite nudes are in fact Modigliani's. They are elongated, tweaked, abstract in a way, and yet you know what you're looking at. He did many, and he was brilliant at it. They are his own interpretations without being cartoonish. I've seen many in person, and they are absolutely stunning. I also love nude photography. The best ones to me are the ones which depict real humans as sculpture in a way. Robert Maplethorpe produced highly charged nude photography which rendered his subjects into sculptural forms. Helmut Newton created stunning nude photography. But one of my favorite artists who was more subtle was Matisse. Some of his better works to me were the ones which had subtle hints of nudity without being vulgar. They set an erotic mood without being too "in your face" in approach.

And finally, probably the most famous nude of all is Michelangelo's "David" from Italy. Immense and intricately carved out of a solid block of marble, this giant sculpture has arguably had an amazing career as a work of art without clothes on. Hundreds of thousands walk past it every single year to marvel at not only the size, but the quality of this international treasure. Without moving as much as a finger, "David" stands still 24 hours a day and 365 days a year and yet brings in more money than almost any work of art in the world. So yes, even after hundreds of years in existence he's still proving that sex does indeed still sell