13 Jun - 27 Jun 14
NUDA VERITAS
The Unvarnished Truth
Horatius
In his top poetic art piece, Horatius managed to derive the purest and the closest to sense activation definition of NUDA VERITAS inventing the only accurate and simply a stroke of genius that the truth only could be denuded or unveiled. Since the time immemorial, in an attempt of highlighting true meaning of the phenomenon people used to depict the core reality deprived of any cover or robe. Nudity always used to be invested by high innermost value and served as a symbol of purity, truth and revival.
The humankind found out a unique instrument to allegorize the true image of always needed truth and liberty. Hence, the female corpus or the female principle archetype turned into the attribute of dew and beauty, while the beauty constitutes the true reality, raison d’etre and the big boost for reviviscence. In the course of evolution and social stratification, the symbol of denuded female corpus was willfully transformed into a conditional universal pattern vested with the veiled decorated mantle. Reasoning from this fact, it was the humanity who begot and obliterated the truth, the imaginative sentient that produced both reality and the big lie. The invented or deliberate delusions both now and always have been instrumental for course of developments alterations. Through the veils shielding “unvarnished reality”, by destruction of nudity through bare variegated spots and devising eye-catching and easily deciphered “false truth code”, people composed a formulary of regulations and prohibitions mainly expressed in art.
Historically, the denuded female image used to be repeatedly narrated not only by the artistic community, but also by poets and writers; concurrently, the image featured the symbol of spiritual unrestraint, reality and justice. Nudity and truth disclaimer reiterated in the human history when the unveiled body was perceived as something disgraceful and unmentionable. Through bans and taboos the advanced communities promoted unprecedented promulgation of conception of shamefulness and depravity of the denuded shapes. In fact, nude corpus portraiture was treated as crime commission. The terrific impact of unbounded ideological “pressure” originated through implementation of “framed pictorialism boundaries” finally endowed the artistic society with imitative “response”, a protest against deteriorative ideological fanaticism reaching various art styles. Soviet totalitarian era-driven limits, regulations and settings surprisingly boosted a stunning phenomenon of art, which could be conditionally titled as “unveiled artistic truth”. The ultimate message of the phenomenon is based on the choice as the life’s trajectory every single artist should follow and, as a result, to make a decision if the artist should take a stand against the system or be on the drift.
Asmar Abdullayeva, art critic