Why do you suppose ancient artists liked to make their sculptures be naked?
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They saw the body as beautiful not something to be ashamed of!!!!!
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Clothes are tough to sculpt - all those ripples - I guess they preferred nipples to ripples
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I suppose by "ancient", you mean the classical Greek artists. Actually, art during this time went through many phases or "fashions". The earliest sculptures were clothed. They were usually sculpts of the gods or of outstanding persons. Later the nude form was popular. Some may have represented female deities, like Aphrodite, ("When did Praxeteles see me naked?") But most were simply studies in the beauty of the human form, both male and female. There was a period called the "wet look", in which diaphenous robes clung to the body like they had come in out of the rain, or up from the sea. Which was the "easiest" to sculpt, I can't say.
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Clothing and its changing styles muddy whatever message the artist wishes to capture because it makes that message specific to a certain geographical location and period. A powdered wig and wrist ruffles is specific to one period while a tunic is specific to another. The nude body is timeless and can represent the same human value that was true in 3 BC as it is true in the 21st Century AD.
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