Art nude

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Art nude is a visual work of art depicting the naked human figure. It is intended to convey an artistic quality to a work, extending beyond the simple naked body depicted.

Art nude was a term also applied by many photographers to describe their nude photography until confronted with many calling their nudes art erotica. Many felt art and erotica were mutually exclusive. The desire to separate their views of art from erotica or pornography drove many artists to be more specific in describing their photos than using only the term “art nude”. They began to use the term figurenude to describe their photos. One notable early adopter of the term figurenude was Jerry Avenaim.

Many people regard the statue of a nude David by Michelangelo or a photo of a nude figure by Edward Weston, Ruth Bernhard, or Jerry Avenaim as examples of an art nude.

By contrast, some people claim that others use the term art erotica to give respectability to what those people would regard as pornography.

The figurenude is a type of art nude used to describe a two dimensional object of art consisting primarily of a nude human figure. It is not intentionally erotic and does not involve the subject interacting with anyone erotically, with the model's face often not even shown. Figurenude is often a term applied to photographs, but can be anything two-dimensional. The figurenude is a sub-class of the art nude genre that completely separates from all erotica.

Art is a broad term with several mutually exclusive genres such as painting, sculpture, and photography.