Sexuality and beauty are always the most prominent victims of all totalitarian ideologies. It's a recurring theme in all dystopian novels, and almost all fundamentalist religions and the individuality-crushing collectivist cultures are obsessed with those two very human qualities, that's one of the ways with which they maintain their paranoid control over their followers, and to keep reducing them to the status of being 'followers'.
Those ideologies often have a matchmaking service, which basically takes away the choice and exaltation of finding the right partner for you. Reducing the glorious act of lovemaking into an act of replication. Keeping you bound and spinning in the mill of life, grinding your soul and individuality in the process.
Art is the way of getting back at those ideologies, it's how we break free of them. Art isn't confined to beautiful sculptures or wonderful paintings, just going through life while maintaining your individuality and making your own choices is an art. Finding, wooing, and earning the love of a beautiful woman is definitely an art. Because in order to earn that love, you need to make yourself worthy of her, and eventually know that you are worthy of her. As that's the only way that you're going to lead a happy life together.
The dangerous thing about a beautiful young woman like Jess being careless or not reinforcing or playing her part in disseminating the idea that sex is dirty is that she inspires you to be the best you can. She inspires you to respect those women who break the rigid rules of modesty and roles of submission. She makes you admire individuality and embrace sexuality and your own self. She gives you the recipe for being successful. She tells you to not be a part of any herd. She tells you that the real power lies within you and that individual rights are a religious shrine which should be zealously defended. She helps you regain your humanity and make it perfect.
This is why I like Jess, and this is why I respect BodyInMind.
"Are you sure you said 2 o'clock?" We sat waiting for our model to show up, in our rented studio, with our lights ready and our cameras set. The minutes ticked by. By the time the hands rounded past 3 pm, we knew we had a no-show on our hands. What were we going to do now? We had so much invested in this, what a shame it would be to let it go to waste. "I'll pose for you" said Cat, our dear friend and model who also acts as our assistant from time to time. "My hair is messy and I don't have any nice lingerie, and I'm not really ready for a nude shoot - but what the hell!" What the hell indeed. Cat is so gorgeous, so charming, and such an amazing model that the shots we got that day are some of the funniest we have of her. Her personality and wit shine through, even through her messy hair. As an impromptu model, Cat runs circles around even the most seasoned professional models. We thought you'd enjoy this bonus set of this lovely lady being her lovely self.
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That is what makes this set so charming. A beautiful lady is being who she is in front of the camera, no real preparations, nothing artificial. Just pure beauty mixed with the graceful independence of a self-confidant lady. A lady who values the truth enough to know that she's beautiful, and not be ashamed or apologetic about it.
Distilling this gallery was truly a hard task, you really gotta see the full set, it's only available for BodyInMind members.
I think that playfulness has its virtues. Here in this gallery. Laura is apparently just having a good time around the camera, her eyes are full of playful laughter. This has definitely affected her images, which strike me as being very dynamic, informal, and beautiful.
I think it all makes her look more beautiful. Models who enjoy their photo sessions often have the most striking and inspiring images that can be found anywhere. And Laura is no exception. Especially when the source of this gallery is BodyInMind.
I hope that you'll like it.
In a recent BodyInMind update, Dwayne wrote that:
"Many readers also extol virtues in our models we know are simply not there. That way they can lie that they love them for who they are and not just what they look like. BOTH of these readers need to learn to value beauty for beauty's sake, without guilt or excuse. Beauty is primarily a moral accomplishment: it is the representation of objective values; and unless an individual has learned to hold some rational values he will be incapable of perceiving beauty at all. For example, confidence is a very valuable quality, but if you don't admire it you won't notice it in a woman so you won't find her attractive."
When we portray a personality for a model it isn't about being humane about their nudity or a way of masking any unnecessary guilt that we have about nudes or our "consumerism". We have our own volition and our own conscience, those have created art, and art often bends reality to get a message across. When I paint a beautiful picture of humanity and embody it in a human being to add more beauty to a static medium, then I am simply giving my mind something that it deserves, meanwhile discovering my own values, knowing more about myself, and therefore becoming a better person, isn't this how beauty inspires people?
Many artistic pieces don't resemble reality at all, yet our minds fill in the missing pieces. Our appreciation of art and beauty is what makes it human.
I am not saying that attractiveness doesn't play a role, that would be hypocrisy. However, as I said, I can look elsewhere for more attractive girls, but I'm not for a simple reason. Only tasteful nudes that capture the model's beauty act as canvas, everything else is too basic for that. It's not about sexual responses or ejaculations, there's porn for that, some of which is perfectly ethical (with amazing models, like fuckingmachines.com, AbbyWinters, and X-Art). It's much more efficient at triggering those exact same symptoms
When I imagine that a model possesses all the qualities that I aspire, the things that I value about life, when I make her represent my own values, I am simply painting a beautiful picture for myself. It isn't about the model per se, it's about the picture. If we only cared about physical beauty then we would be more than happy seeing all those trash nudes found everywhere, in which the models are more physically attractive than most of BodyInMind models. What makes BodyInMind special is that it embraces values.
First of all, 99% of models use a fake name, so it's all a big fantasy, that actually benefits you as a person. The disappointment of real life is understandable, you can't compare a picture of a model or a fantasy to someone that you actually love in real life and embodies your values. Real-life people have different personalities, that's for sure. That's why we keep looking for the right partner, it's fulfilling being with someone that you are familiar with and who actually has some of your values.
The models here are symbols, regardless of what their real-life personalities are like.
As for the analogy, I disagree, you will still notice her confidence if you don't value it, it's a part of her personality. Only that it will then be labeled as arrogance.
Dwayne and Leanne Bell have recently started photographing beautiful women, and I have to admit that some of their recent galleries are very professional. This is one of those new galleries, and there also is a picture from their latest gallery featuring a beautiful model called Vanessa.
That's great news because it means that we will now get to see more nudes of beautiful young women that strictly follow the standards of Super Beauty, nudes made by the creators of that wonderful philosophy.
Marsha is a young Canadian woman and it's my first time seeing her. I think that the connection between the freezing Canadian winters and the theme of this set is clear. Actually, this is what Dwayne said in his description of this gallery.
I hope that we will be able to see more beautiful young women from Canada and North America, and I am quite sure that we will now that Dwayne and Leanne have picked up their cameras and started their hunt for true beauty.
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Beauty is eternal, that seems to be a clear message that's present in most of the images by the remarkable photographer Jilles Villeprat. By showing different works of art of nature he truly captivates the viewer's soul, almost overwhelming it by the beauty of those works.
You can rarely find an image of a beautiful woman, an amateur, who's sharing her beauty while blending in with her surroundings, but it's true of Jilles Villeprat's works. His photographs are beautiful because his his reverence for nature and for the human form is evident in every single image.
We always do wonder about the beauty of those mountains and boulders that have been carved by nature over hundreds and thousands of years. However, we often don't take the time to inspect and wonder about the beauty of the human form, which is another work of nature. Jilles Villeprat tries to establish the connection by showing both those masterpieces next to each other.
By featuring these images, I hope that you will be able to enjoy this beautiful combination and to be inspired by it.
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It's amazing how technology can influence and change the way with which art is produced. The quality of scanned images simply doesn't match the quality of digital images. Digital cameras have also enabled ordinary people to produce their own art without the need for anyone to take a look at their images.
This gallery comes from a personal collection of mine of Ronin's photographs. However, it's one of the galleries from the times when Met-Art wasn't what it is today, therefore the colors of the images are unfortunately not that outstanding and there's a film grain that can be noticed in some pictures. This made me feel the role of digital cameras in the production of modern artistic nudes, there's no need to have a darkroom in order to produce your own art.
Anyway, I hope that you will enjoy these images by Ronin from Met-Art.
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One of the many things that make art a superior form of self-expression is its ability to penetrate the minds, reaching deep down into the soul of the artist and revealing his/her vision of the world and the hidden beauty that s/he sees.
It's one of the reasons artists have been respected throughout the centuries; everyone knows who Wolfgang Mozart was, but few know who Adam Smith or Willem Einthoven were. Artists have an amazing ability of delving into the souls of their audience and inspiring them; we still can be inspired by Tchaikovsky's 5th and relate to it. It's this ability of communicating with the inner soul of other human beings through revealing some aspects of your soul that made artists often more well-known than scientists.
Artists often see beauty where others don't, they often then use the inspiration of this beauty to create their own beautiful masterpieces. Some of them can even make beauty in their vivid imagination and be inspired by it.
It's now quite clear why this set was called "Inner Soul" by Jilles Villeprat, his works are often very artistic: combining nature's art manifested in rocks and stream with the anthropoid beauty. He also adds some symbols in every picture which makes his works undoubtedly artistic.
I hope that you will enjoy this gallery of masterpieces by Jilles Villeprat.
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There are a lot of elements in a gallery that make it beautiful, and those aren't just related to the camera model or the lighting used. It's more about the attitude of the photographer and what s/he's trying to achieve.
I find this gallery beautiful, the reasons are easy to enumerate; it's that I love the galleries which are shot in nature and I prefer amateur models to professional models.
The beauty about the galleries shot in nature is that they establish a connection between the benevolent all-giving pure nature and its finest product, female beauty. When those elements are combined they often produce glorious results that are indeed breathtaking and inspiring.
I prefer amateur models to professional models because an amateur model is often more spontaneous than a professional model, this spontaneity means a lot. Also, there's a good chance that an amateur model will give us a glance of how the situation would be like if women were given the freedom to share their heavenly beauty with the rest of the world, professional models sometimes make certain poses that may be suggestive or not natural. In my world of ideas spontaneous means free, while artificial means ugly.
I hope that you will enjoy the beauty of those wonderful models in this gallery by Ronin from Met-Art.
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There's a lot of beauty in this world that needs talented photographers to capture it. This beauty includes the beauty of mother nature and the beauty of the bodies that we are always are trying to hide. I am glad that now the technology provides the freedom required for the production of such beautiful works.
This world is very beautiful, there's no doubt about that. The ugliness is brought about by the evil and corruption that's created by some misguided human beings. The pristine Mother Nature is never ugly. Just look at everything around us(please exclude all the human made cities, I am talking about the forests, the colorful birds, the beautiful animals, and the things that you will normally see in the Amazon rain forest). Even the harsh Australian deserts are beautiful, there's a sense of purity that you can see in those sands and the random arrangement of the rocks, the harsh deserts of Greenland are also very pure. We can't deny the existence of all that beauty, we just forget about it in our daily lives in our crowded cities.
The worst thing of all is that we forget that beauty of ourselves. We're beautiful, but we are ashamed of our bodies and how we look like. We always look for extraneous objects and ornaments to try to make ourselves "look better", even in some nations some women who are wearing several layers of make-up appear on the television daily, some women suffer in high heels because they think they make them more attractive. We forget that purity and simplicity are the ultimate forms of beauty that are preferred by many. The insecurities and the false beliefs that our cultures make us have simply make us forget who we truly are.
I belief that one of the worst things that some modern cultures inculcate into the minds of those who belong to them is the philosophy of body shame. Even if you're a religious Christian man there's nothing against pure nudity as long as lust isn't involved, and isn't this what the artistic and nonsexual representations of nudity are about?, if it doesn't come from the religion then it comes from the culture, and we know that cultural laws aren't always right. Even the modern European and American cultures were one day(and some are still, but are slowly changing) misogynistic.
The claims that are made against nudity include:
1- Nudity is about sexuality.
2- Nudity isn't appropriate for minors to see.
3- Nudity is wrong(if a claim isn't supported by reasons then it's a false one).
Nudity certainly isn't about sexuality, one doesn't become sexually excited when s/he sees Titian's Danae or Bouguereau's Baigneuse, s/he doesn't also get sexually excited while strolling in Paris' streets and inspecting the sculptures. There are a lot of non-sexual nudes out there, it all really depends on the attitude of the viewer, but even that attitude is created when that person has been living a life of body shame. When one sees nudity as a natural part of life one learns that nudity is very separate from sexuality, and therefore the first claim is a false one.
Some minors are raised up in nudist households where social nudity is tolerated, and if you make a Google search about the subject you will find a lot of good resources about that argument. However, if you want to know the conclusion of most of those websites, then it's that the minors who are brought up in an environment where nudity is acceptable and not viewed as a shameful thing aren't as preoccupied with sex as their average counterparts who are brought up in non-nudist households, are more comfortable about the changes that are associated with puberty, aren't regular consumers of pornography, and are more open about sexuality. The second claim is proved to be false.
The third claim is false because it simply states no reasons, I have already mentioned that Christianity has nothing against nudity.
The strange body shame that some people have is mainly a cultural concept, thinking about it in a society where nudity is accepted then most of marketing agents will be unemployed. The relationship that's established between nudity and sex in some cultures is very beneficial to those who want to sell their products; a lot of Hollywood movies have references to sex and nudity scenes to gain popularity, the commercials of companies that sell cosmetic products are always trying to convince you that you won't be attractive without their products. Those commercials make you feel unattractive and unhealthy, they will try to make you feel that you won't be complete without their products. So, it's a beneficial thing for the media, I don't really wonder why this body shame is supported by them.
In conclusion, beauty is everywhere but we shouldn't forget that we are beautiful as well. We should remember to pause for a little while everyday to appreciate beauty, whether that may be the beauty of nature, the beauty of nude bodies, or any kind of beauty. It's good and helps us carry on with our daily lives.
I hope that you will enjoy this Met-Art gallery by Ronin.
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