Ariel is a very well-known model in the world of nudes. She has her own website and has appeared on almost every website that you can think of. However, she often collaborates with photographers who aren't that interested in the production of tasteful nudes. This time it's different.
It did come as a surprise when I read Stefan Soell's name on this gallery. Even more surprising was the fact that he created a lot of explicit images in this particular photo shoot. It's no secret that Stefan has recently been pressured to create more explicit nudes and he often complied by producing a couple of explicit pictures here and there, but this gallery was full of them. However, he still managed to create some beautiful and tasteful nudes that you can see here.
I certainly hope that Stefan will keep on producing tasteful nudes. I don't really understand why he yield to such pressure. He's the only FEMJOY photographer whose name appears on every image that he creates and his pictures has helped make FEMJOY what it is today. All I can do is hope that he won't abandon capturing beauty for anatomy-textbooks style pictures.
Anyway, I hope that you will enjoy this FEMJOY gallery of Ariel by Stefan Soell.
Raging thunder, black skies, dead sun, an endless black sea of ashes on the horizon, and a complete destruction. There's no hope, no living thing. Everything has died as a result of human greed.
As it seems that this is the end, beauty resurrects itself. It's a new dawn, and the time for life to be reborn in the hostile world.
Beauty will never die.
Another Richard Murrian series on Graceful Nudes and a dissatisfied David. I rarely am satisfied when adding M-U-S-E galleries, and I have a pretty good idea why.
Let's start with the paragraph on this gallery page(I didn't write it, they did):
"INDOCHINE: Introducing Valaria, our newest exclusive eighteen year old Muse. Half-Vietnamese, half-Czech, her young exotic beauty resonates in this gorgeous new series.
Photographed nude for the first time." - M-U-S-E
I have many objections, first the eighteen year old part makes it sound like teen porn or a way of satisfying a pornographic fantasy of some viewers. What's so special about being eighteen? I am eighteen and it's one of the last things I say about myself while introducing myself. It sounds to me like some line used to promote this gallery.
After that awkward paragraph they then mention that it's her first nude photographs ever. O.K. we all may mention that it's the model's first time if she looks nervous as a way to excuse any nervousness that may appear in the gallery, but its position here is pointless as she apparently is pretty comfortable with her nudity. Another promotional line.
After that introductory paragraph the first thing that you're likely to notice if you have seen the previous M-U-S-E galleries featured here is that this gallery is very similar to them(Michaela and Jana come to mind). This "templating" is a sign of the loss of one's creativity, a photographer without creativity is making porn, not erotica or tasteful nudes. The subject becomes the female body, and add all that artificial erotica(not that obvious in this gallery) and you've got a new gallery to make some money. This shouldn't be the way artists think; some very successful artists died in debt. Of course I am not saying that Richard Murrian should start roaming the streets with a camera, some posters, and an empty cup. What I am saying is that personal satisfaction and creative work is the pride of a true artist, and from where I stand this is not where M-U-S-E is heading. Mr. Murrian has a great skill, he just needs to listen to his inner mind for a while and to capture the beauty of his models instead of trying to capture something that's not there(sexuality represented as erotica).
The models are beautiful and brave, this is something that every photographer should respect. Don't make her another face in the crowd, show her for what she really is, make her beauty shine and make her stand out, believe me, this is much better than listening to any marketing teams and probably will make money if you wait for a while or market it to the right people. Aiming for the lowest common denominator means that you will show what nudity was never meant to offer.
I am not a fan of erotica, but if you want to do it right, then do it when the model is feeling sexy. You can't tell a beautiful model to put her finger on her lips and to spread her legs, take a picture of her and call it art. That's not art, that's abject pornography.
Anyway, this gallery is to honor Valaria and her beauty. Enjoy!
There are a lot of things that I hate about Richard Murrian's website, the most apparent of them being the very erotic display of most of his new sets, which only serves to fulfill the demands of his visitors without caring about the models or the fact that the emotions displayed in those sets are fake ones. I don't seem to understand why a female putting a finger in her mouth and acting like she's a model in a heavily sexual perfume commercial is found attractive by some visitors, I have rarely seen a woman acting in that way in real life and I certainly don't like that kind of emotions.
My current definition of art is that it's a display of the familiar in a beautiful not-so-familiar way; id est showing the beauty of the nude human body that our brain is used to discarding in real life. Apparently, erotica isn't a familiar subject in real life, and that makes it a tasteless form of art, for it doesn't express a point of view or conform to my current definition. That's enough to make me lose some of my respect for an artist, as succumbing to monetary pressure is a weakness.
However, as with many other artists he manages to produce a good set once in a while, and this collection of images seems to represent one of them. It has those obnoxious erotic elements in a couple of pictures, but it's not a bad set once you get past that.
It's an aesthetically satisfactory set to an extent, but it definitely doesn't compete with the artistic images that are found elsewhere. I won't buy a membership there anytime soon, and I don't recommend buying one unless you love fake erotica or have enough patience to hunt for treasures(which are there once you look close enough, but aren't that common).
I just hope that you'll be able to find some beauty in this set.
There's no story without a beautiful woman playing a central role in it. Beauty makes any story more inspiring and more exciting, there are even old mythological stories about women who affected the Gods with their beauty and charm.
There's no novel, story, movie, or tale without a beautiful woman adorning its plot. Patience Heatherstone in Children of The New Forest, Louisa Gradgrind in Hard Times, Helen in the war on troy myth...just to name a few. Every author throughout history was aware of the effect that a woman can have on a plot; a novel that's devoid of a woman's beauty is just transformed into a boisterous and course one: beauty has a soothing effect on human beings and female beauty is the ultimate beauty.
We may be more fortunate than the older generations in that we can inspect beauty in its full glory, the telecommunication revolution made it easier for us to enjoy art from multiple sources. You don't have to go to Paris or visit a German museum to enjoy artistic masterpieces. It also has its disadvantages in that most of us don't take the time to inspect that art, it's like living in Paris and never going to the Eiffel tower. It's there and will always be there, we start to take art for granted without taking the time to appreciate it. It also gave some misguided people to underrepresent female beauty in disgraceful ways.
There are a few websites where artistic or inspiring beauty can be found. FEMJOY definitely is one of those website, they may have a lot of erotica but they have a lot of masterpieces by Stefan Soell - my favorite artist till this day. This set is one of his many masterpieces that I greatly enjoy and hope that you will love as well.
Feel Beauty!
"Don't be afraid of showing vaginae, they don't bite", this is another statement that was recently made by a friend of mine. Well, in my case it's not that I have a kind of pudendophobia, I have my own reasons for trying to stay away from pictures that do give a prominent display for that part of the body. I may be repeating myself, but this time I will try to correlate my personal beliefs and ideas to the reason behind that behavior when i choose images.
It's not that vaginae or penises are ugly, when I see a vagina or a penis I don't normally feel any sense of excitation or any inspiration. I often inspect the anatomical structure of the sexual organs and name each structure then move on. I have read some books about human anatomy and I am very comfortable with seeing those parts of the body. This makes the process of seeing pure images of those parts of the body an inane one; I am not seeking sexual gratification in those images and I don't expect my users to be expecting that kind of thing, it's simply against my philosophy.
Most of the pay-sites(I do promote some of the tasteful nudes from those websites) and the other websites that are similar to Graceful Nudes have a lot of images that mainly concentrate on those parts of the body, those websites are trying to increase their bottom line, regardless of how they achieve it.
I have repeated this many times, but when I look at any image what I see is the beauty or the lack thereof; this means that the aesthetical appeal of the images is one of the factors that I highly value now. As Graceful Nudes is somewhat of a personal website that represents my vision and the types of nudes that I normally will gladly see, these personal beliefs do affect my image choice.
The main problem with most of these images is that they are not beautiful, inspiring, or even subjective. They mainly transform the model into a commodity who's being exploited to make more money. I don't see how a close-up image of a vagina of a penis can represent an idea(looky looky, here's a vagina *giggle*?) or depict the wholesome nature and the sense of freedom that nudity represents. Those images are mostly devoid of artistic meanings and mostly are a part of a tasteless picture gallery, they are the kind of images that are made to meet a deadline, and deadlines kill the creativity of the best of artists.
It's not pudendophobia that control my actions, it's not wanting to contribute to any objectification of the models. I personally prefer tasteful nudes, and those are the nudes that I am willing to share. Once a nude woman becomes more beautiful and less sexual than a clothed woman, you will be able to experience the true beauty of those nudes that I am presenting here. Hopefully some of you do like those nudes.
I hope that you will enjoy the beauty of this gallery of Jana by Richard Murrian.
"This is coy!", this was the reply of a friend of mine as I showed her the Golden River set of Kinga. It really puzzled me to see beauty being described as "coy". There are some elements in the gallery that led her to believe that it was devoid of the model's personality and that it Kinga was trying to look shy or passive. Is she right?, Are tasteful nudes really about models who are trying to pretend to look innocent or is this innocence something that comes naturally in such beautiful settings?
According to Cambridge's Online Dictionary the definition of the adjective coy is:
(especially of women) being or pretending to be shy, modest, childish or lacking in confidence.
I will start with the issue of her supposedly "lacking in confidence"; How can a brave nude woman who dares to share the beauty of her body even though she may have to suffer due to the actions of the beauty-haters be considered "lacking in confidence"?. On the contrary, self-confidence is one of the main things that a nude model must have. For this confidence is one of the attributes that make a model that brave and, most of all, beautiful.
Shyness is normal, a model may feel shy in her first photo shoot because she may not be accustomed to nudity or the presence of a photographer, but this shyness is short-lived and is rarely captured on camera. One of the photographer's tasks is to make the model comfortable, but this clearly isn't a problem for the photographers working with Kinga; She is as charming and as comfortable being nude as in the very early set of her by Matthias Barth(Body In Mind, Domai), I have never felt that she was shy or pretending to be shy in any of her sets. Therefore I don't think that the element of shyness is present in this gallery, and if the element is absent then how can she be "pretending to be shy"?
I don't see why this gallery can be called childish, the only thing that's related to the early years of life in any of Kinga's galleries is her innocence and carefree beautiful smile. These can't be considered a negative thing. Innocence is defined by Dwayne Bell as:
"Innocence does not mean a lack of sexual experience, and it is not a synonym for morality. Innocence means knowledge of ones own guilelessness. Properly, innocence means "shamelessness"....."shamelessness" means the brazen flaunting of ones own lack of guilt." - Dwayne Bell (Founder of Body In Mind)
Shamelessness here means having nothing to be ashamed of, why should you be ashamed of showing your beauty and purity to the world in a self-confident manner?. Does it make make the world afraid that some women do have the determination, courage, and self-confidence to be free?. If innocence is that important then why should it be taken against Kinga or Stefan Soell?. Those are questions that probably can't be addressed without tracing the roots of the current beliefs regarding nudity and sexuality in general. If innocence is about being open with ones actions and being open-minded enough to realize that there's nothing to be ashamed of about ones body then how can it be a negative thing?
Tasteful nudes are anything but coy, they mainly promote the natural beauty of women without adding any extra provocative poses or anything that a woman won't normally do in a non-sexual environment that's tolerant of nudity. It's the natural beauty of a woman that makes a gallery beautiful, and not those strange superfluous sexual elements. If a model is timid in real life then why should we try to forge her real personality?, this is the kind of deceit promoted by pornography. The sites which feature tasteful nudes aren't pornographic in nature. Tasteful nudes can't be considered pornographic or erotic because they simply aren't trying to sexually excite the viewer.
It's not the sexuality that I am trying to feature, it's the genuine beauty that's becoming very hard to find. It may be described in negative manners by those who don't quite understand the message of tasteful nudes. This shouldn't stop those of us who are comfortable viewing those respectable nudes from enjoying them, we may even have a chance of convincing those who have misunderstood the true essence of beauty that those images aren't about nudity per se, they're about the beauty of the nude human form. This simple understanding of the spirit of tasteful nudes will enable us to be inspired by them and to feel their true power while shedding our illogical prejudice about nudity.
I conclude this short collection of paragraphs by saying that my friend has probably misunderstood the true nature of tasteful nudes, it's not a good strategy to judge a complete philosophy by just viewing few pictures and relating them to the prevalent ideas about nudity without reevaluating the values that are hidden within us, this statement was probably made in haste and therefore is somewhat unfair.
I hope that you will enjoy this beautiful set of Kinga from FEMJOY.
Richard Murrian's style is marked with his ability to mix erotica with art. His works are often beautiful and inspiring. With his remarkable talent, and his beautiful models he has earned his reputation of being one of the best photographers online.
It's hard for a lot of photographers to be able to have the ability to mix elements of erotica and art together; I have seen a lot of strange works by various photographers who try to achieve this result but failed. Richard Murrian has become one of the most popular photographers online because he has a good ability of using the light to show the beauty of his models and because he has worked with various beautiful models. I do regret seeing his talent being used to produce more erotica these days than ever before, but it may be that he prefers this genre of photography or is unable to come up with a lot of innovative artistic galleries without including the sexual elements that are offered by erotica, it's really hard to tell.
His career started when he married his wife Nancy Murrian who soon became his first model, he honed his skills and then started producing galleries that were somewhat more artistic. After he started gaining popularity he started M-U-S-E which was only featuring his works and the works of his wife until recently. The models that he has worked with include Monika C, Nella, and Yanna(her modelling career started in his studio). His works have been featured at various websites including Met-Art, BodyInMind, and of course M-U-S-E.
In this set his style can be easily seen, he often uses shades of black and a soft background, this helps to shift the focus on the models beauty. The models always look good in his exquisite settings.
This lengthy praise of Richard Murrian's talent didn't make me forget the role of Monika C, the model contributes a great deal into the creation of a gallery. It's her willingness to share her beauty and her values that are reflected in the gallery that makes it beautiful.
In this gallery Monika looks tired, but this hasn't affected the quality of the gallery. She is looking as charming as ever. The look in her eyes was rather mysterious, it showed a great deal of self-confidence and a sense of dignified beauty, and as Dwayne Bell of BodyInMind has said in one of his articles, self-confidence is one of the critical inner beauty values that a woman exhibits. It shows her respect for her beauty and demands a similar respect from the viewer, those simple inner beauty values are the things that differentiate between a highly inspiring gallery and a base erotic one. Those values are often reflected on a woman's face and her posture; that's why I always include as many face-shots as possible. Those shots offer us a glimpse of a woman's soul and are essential in completing the wonderful experience that one gets from viewing every graceful picture.
I hope that you will enjoy this beautiful gallery of Monika C from Met-Art.
I have a passion for beautiful nude images, and this passion is the main reason I never feel too tired to share some beautiful images with you. There are always some galleries that do stand out and instantly enter the list of my favorite galleries, those galleries are the food that keeps this passion alive and makes me happy to spend my time adding new galleries to this website.
This gallery is one of those galleries that I know will stay in my memory for a long time. It's as if Stefan Soell has shot it in a fairytale or in one of the ecstatic fantasies that we all have while reading a good book or listening to good music. It has all the elements of perfection, an enchanting smile, a beautiful model, simple nudity, and no sexual expressions. It's one of those few galleries that make you love life and dream of a better world, this is what true art is really about.
Stefan Soell as usual didn't deprive us of the smile of the model, and Kinga is one of the most graceful models and she's one of my few favorite models. I don't recall ever seeing her pictures without feeling fascinated with her grace and spellbinding beauty. I am sure that you will see what I mean if you take the time to inspect the beauty of these masterpieces by Stefan Soell.
Enjoy!
More Marketa Belonoha Galleries
Watching Marketa's beauty is always a refreshing experience. I don't know, but she has a charm that attracts all of your attention the moment you set your eyes on any picture of hers. This charm is, in my opinion, the main factor behind her huge success and her ubiquitous presence on almost every website that offers some graceful nudes on the Internet.
In this early gallery featuring her, Jaromir has chosen a location that has many walls. Maybe to offer her some support as he shoots some anterior pictures of her. It starts at an old brick wall and then they switch to a stone wall. The location has some green areas, however Jaromir didn't choose to shoot in those areas and preferred the walls for a reason that I don't understand. It is evident though that Marketa has always been, and will be very comfortable with her body and as beautiful as always.
I hope that you will enjoy this Pretty Nudes gallery of Marketa Belonoha.
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