Women have been punished for their beauty many times throughout human history. There have been hundreds of stereotypes used to target their depravity if they dared to take control of their bodies or their beauty. Prostitution was a word used to denote things that are now considered normal such as cohabitation. Docility and humility were the standards of beauty. A woman who accepted the chains was considered the most beautiful of all.
I simply look at Klaudia and wonder about the progress that has been made. Nudes are still considered immoral and shameful, regardless of whether they depict a noble ideal or the debasement and degradation of bravery. The models still face many real life troubles for what they do. If the model is not a famous model, if she's just an extraordinary girl from the crowds, then all the comments will be related to the anatomy of her body. I don't know if this is our modern-day punishment for a woman who takes the chance to dream and to aspire or if it's just basic media-driven conditioning.
It is a true tragedy. For neither the brave woman nor the thinking viewer have the respect that they deserve. Those amazing nudes just remain confined to a niche, to connoisseurs, just like most works of culture. To be replaced by the basic works that target sexuality - softcore - or some other works that provide no cerebral stimulation whatsoever.
Tasteful nudes are almost like a mystic dance, the poses represent small pieces of the greater puzzle of life. They serve as a reminder and as a source of inspiration. They're distinctly human, and they have a uniting force. They also serve as a blank canvas, to be filled with one's imagination by the most honorable of human qualities. Then they start serving as a model.
The models must be beautiful in real life, for beauty is very distinct from physical attractiveness. I am quite sure that the picture that our minds paint are very similar to what can be found in real life.
Beauty certainly deserves more respect, and more understanding. I am sure that true beauty will be produced, no matter the artificial barriers. And it will always find an audience, even if that audience is only compromised of a few hundreds of people.
Klaudia has appeared at many websites and even magazines: Hegre-Art, Penthouse Germany (August 2008, she is on the cover), VIP-Nudes, and probably a lot of other places of which I am unaware.
BodyinMind is one of the few websites that I have come to relish. There is a clear difference in their approach to nudes, which is far from being characterized by misogyny, carelessness, or blind commodification. The pictures are full of respect for female beauty. I think that there's nothing worse than horribly profaning a woman's beauty through carelessness or mindless greed, which pretty much summarizes the approach of most of the websites.
I like it when beauty is represented for the wonderful representation of morals that it is, which is the unique approach of BodyinMind and Super Beauty, an approach that is indeed very rare and hard to grasp by many.
That's one of the reasons why I like BodyinMind, and why I like their pictures of Klaudia.
This is a beautiful new set from Body In Mind, which is accompanied by the following paragraph by Dwayne Bell:
"We at Body in Mind are always telling people that beauty can save the world. And we mean it. But rarely does a beauty come along who perfectly illustrates our point. How does it work? Simple. If you're a young man, and you're healthy and possess a normal sex drive, you will find Klaudia very beautiful, and you will begin to fantasize about her. If you have a mind you will fantasize not only about sex with her, but about having her as a girlfriend, about her falling in love with you and so on. And if you're a moral man, you will know that to make this happen you will have to earn it, you will have to impress her as much as she's impressed you. And to do that, you will have to do something great. That is how beauty will save the world. It makes intelligent, moral men great. Start saving yourself, and the world, today, at Body In Mind." - Dwayne Bell
While I have a lot of respect for Dwayne Bell and Body In Mind, I have to disagree with what he has said in the previous paragraph.
It may be true that this is how inspiration works for some people, I am not sure as this has never been the way in which I saw the power of beauty.
Young men aren't the only ones who admire beauty, there are a lot of older men who do appreciate this beauty as much as any young man or even better, as their own interpretation of the images comes from a long experience in life and not hormonal urges, which isn't the way with which all young men view those images.
Men fantasize about a lot of things, they may fantasize about celebrities or various women. While they may think that all those women are beautiful, it's not always so. Universal beauty transcends attraction or even fantasy, it may invoke the powers of imagination and the sense of morality that is present in all human beings, but it doesn't yield to basic instincts.
What a person described in that paragraph experiences is not beauty, it is a combination of greed and sexual desire, which should not undergo a process of rationalization in order to be considered normal or natural. I don't think that a lot of people have fantasized about having sex with a subject of a classical painting that contains a nude representation of female beauty.
Unfortunately, I feel that Dwayne is somehow endorsing this kind of possessive behavior. I don't really think that making Klaudia sound like a trophy or a material thing to be earned is the right way to talk about beauty or its ability to alleviate pain or inspire heroic actions. I somehow feel that this concept was infiltrated by the current consumption trends: you can earn whatever you want as long as you work for it.
This view is somehow self-centered and doesn't give Klaudia the appreciation she deserves. A person who forgets the gaze and the eyes for a woman's bosom loses a lot. Bosoms are shared by all women, they're something that is dictated by physiological processes, or in other words are purely physical. The beauty I see is deeper than that, even though a lot of it may be based on the imagination of certain traits and psychological qualities, it is far more complex than simple curves, and most importantly more unique.
Beauty belongs to the realm of the abstract, the elusive ethereal qualities of life that can positively influence our actions. Not the realm of mindless sexual impulses or sexual fantasies.
For instance, what mainly attracted me to this gallery was the gaze of Klaudia and her attitude. A power manifests itself in her dark lucid eyes that almost belongs to the world or mythical heroines, she looks as if she's determined to achieve something. Imagination takes it from there, what is it that she's trying to achieve? Is it the end of all wars? Is it an ultimate cure for cancer? Is it the end of suffering?
She then becomes a role model, a source of true inspiration. Her beauty to me is that she, at least in my head, is trying to save the world, trying to do what no other human being has dared to do, she wants to stop people from harming each other, she doesn't care about fame as long as she does the noble thing.
I am not saying that this is what every man sees. I can't claim to know how others view the world, but in all cases I hope that they're not seeing it in the way that Dwayne has described.
Nudity will destroy the world. This statement is very true, and I definitely agree with it. However, before thinking that I have lost my mind please read on to hear my explanation.
I have often heard this sentence throughout my life, it's one of the prevalent ideas in any conservative household. I took it for granted, but I still believe in it. Yes, I do spread nudity and beauty...do I want our world to be destroyed?
Let me first paraphrase what that sentence means to me. Nudity will destroy the world as we know it, we all know the power and the inspiration of beautiful and tasteful nudes. As Dwayne Bell has argued many times, beauty rouses human ethics. Many have argued that an ethical society will be harmonious.
The world that we live in may suffer from corruption and a general lack of ethical conduct, greed in our consumer societies is literally consuming every good value that we have, it's about who can control his greed and who can not. I imagine it like a battle between your good side(ethics) and the bad one(greed), greed has a lot of powerful weapons in our modern world and that's why it reigns. However, if tasteful nudes can empower our good side and help us in surmounting the difficulties of our lives we shall be able to lead an ethical life.
Once ethics have this amazing power, the world as we know it will change, thus it will be destroyed....for good.
Never underestimate the power of tasteful nudes like those of Klaudia from Body In Mind.
Make your good side win!
I wonder about the reason that has attracted me to this gallery. Klaudia is beautiful, the lighting is good, and Chris Ruegge is one of the masters of nude photography, but I still am not able to pinpoint the exact reason I find this gallery that attractive or even why I have decided to add it to Graceful Nudes.
I am quite sure that the reason isn't Klaudia's perfect body as I rarely choose a gallery because the model has a beautiful body, but it may be her face: it looks very familiar and there's this gentle beauty in it that makes you feel that you've admired Klaudia for years. It's a shame that we forget how powerful the model's facial beauty can be.
Anyway, The reason behind my addition of this gallery may not be that clear to me, but I am sure that you will enjoy this beautiful Body In Mind gallery by Chris Ruegge.
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