Award promotes 'beautiful' nudes

BBC - A society championing 'beautiful' female nudes is handing out its inaugural award on Monday.

The Society for the Appreciation of the Female Nude (SAFN) wants to encourage artists who paint traditional nudes rather than "ugly" figures, it said.

The society will hand out their first Venus Award to artist Ulla Plougmand-Turner for her work Woman With Flame Coloured Hair.

A society spokesman said it was a reaction to contemporary nudes.

Jonathan Rush said the society was a group of "art lovers who are bored with looking at geometric or ugly nudes in galleries".

He said the society had surveyed 300 people visiting galleries and said 50% of them had said they did not like modern nudes.

The link was from DOMAI, which promotes simple nude photographs of women.

Nudity is natural,
Beauty is important,
Looking is good.