Collection 1 - Nude – Pure – Us!

190 KALTBLUT
In a somber prude world where piano legs are
covered considering it insulting to expose any
form of “legs”, witches are conscious natural
creatures who want to celebrate their existence,
because according to the old world the
only power is found inside one’s own body.
Witches are painted nude because witches
pose a threat to social order, and nude is stigmatized
as threatening and fearsome. We can
see one other quality of the nude and of witches
in Albrecht Durer’s famous witch painting,
nude makes everyone equal, all social classes
are stripped of status and qualities and since
witches are actually in favour of nudism in
some ceremonies they want to disobey the order
and abolish the law. Witches are depicted
naked and wild, dancing, debauched, frantic,
often implying the use of illegal substances,
classless, enchanting and enticing, tempting
man to yield into the kingdom of hedonism and
sin disregarding any authorities with the fatal
results ubiquitous religion oppressors never
stopped preaching about.
Then, another obvious reason why witches are
painted nude throughout history is the perfect
excuse they offer an artist to avoid being censored.
Ok so the painting might be nude but it’s
only because it is depicting these devilish creatures
to be looked upon with fear and disgust.
It is natural for an artist to be interested in the
human body, since it’s been that way since antiquity,
and much as a multitude of clothes and
fabrics might offer an extensive playground,
nothing can compare to the motion of free bodies
and the tones of bare skin that had been so
stupidly forbidden.
Thanks to witches and their immoral ways
painters could express themselves freely. Under
the pretence of depicting pure evil, an artist,
who has to be rebellious by nature and definition,
can study the human body and also do
their bit of anarchy statement in offering some
of their finest works when working with these
damn witches. Becoming secretly part of this
decadent mystic tradition it makes perfect
sense why they would choose to depict these
mad fiendish women rather than the slightly
boring, puritan, strict woman buried under her
multitude of clothes and virtues.
So next time you look at these nude witches,
give them one more moment of thought. Do
they not seem tempting enough? Is their dance
not a secret ceremony vaguely familiar to you?
When looking closer, are they not a bunch of
little Venuses and wood nymphs, little goddesses
of nature and of the past who have
very subtly managed to sneak into our modern
world through thousands of years of merciless
hunts?