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Summer Knight is completely naked by a lace draped table and I’m floored. I’m a huge fan of erotic art and how Nude Muse presents it, so when I see Summer presenting her curves in some shadows, you really get to explore her body like never before. The goblet is a nice touch.
Millais’s later oeuvre demonstrates a tendency toward portraiture and scenes of every day life, making his 1870 picture an aberration from the more banal, and more clothed paintings of his later career. The painting features a nude woman, having been stripped and bound to a tree, rescued by a fully-armored knight who cuts her ropes with his bloody sword. With this picture, Millais makes reference to classical subject matter, and defines his stance on the Victorian problem of the nude.
Though Millais’s nude appears similarly bound and helpless, her body lacks the statuesque appeal of many stylized, perfected female bodies in artistic rendering. Millais painted this picture during a time of debate concerning the nude’s nature as a threat to morality, where the opposition argued that a beautifully rendered figure “transcended sexual urges” (Barlow, 153). Millais’s picture is suggestive, but not overtly sexual. Signs of sexuality appear in the woman’s flowing hair, the proximity of the soldier’s sword, and the phallic nature of the tree emerging from between the two figures. The red of the cloth peeking out from the knight’s armor suggests his humanity, blood, and sexuality, as a color associated with livelihood and of course, desire. The moon on the left side of the painting (the female’s allotted sphere in this picture) connotes the female reproductive cycle, its sliver of a form suggesting her waning spirits.
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Hilary Knight nude photo collection showing her topless boobs and naked ass with the sexy hockey player posing naked for ESPN body issue.
