What's Nude ?

nude

adjective: nude

1. 1.

   wearing no clothes; naked.

   "a painting of a nude model"
2. 2.

   of a pinkish-beige colour.

   "nude tights"

   

   Christian Louboutin

   
   

   
   

   What's nude ? I also try to be self-aware by questioning and challenging decisions i make everyday. Last week when i went out to buy a pair of skin tone nude tights so i could stuff them and create something which looks like fatty tissue. 
   
   

   Automatically i bought a pinkish beige colour as at the time i think that resembled skin tone.  This assumption clearly incorrect as i am not that skin tone and so are a lot of other people. I then  thought to my self why was this a naturally choice. I was especially surprised without myself as i try and make a point to included females of all colours (darker tones) in my work to help with the promotion of females of colour on the runway during all seasons ( not just summer). What made me think that nude has to be a pinkish colour as people come in a range of different colours. 
   
   

   I think my choice goes beyond the project as I'm looking at both the western word and Africa so i cant blame my choice on my project. I thought about it and i think it goes deeper than me just being in a hurry and picking up the first thing i see because 1. I wasn't in a hurry and 2. i set out intentionally looking for that colour. I think it's about the media and the world around me as the world has bought me up to believe 'nude' in relation to colour means a pinkish colour. Also the fact i have studied art for such a long time and when i teacher would say to me "Rachel make a nude colour" the 'correct' choice would be a pinkish and if i was printing lets say a 1o year old Indian girl they would refer to the colour choices as "browns". So you could see how this idea of the colour nude has been hammered into my head. And it's not just me i see people in my class using pink and beige colours when drawing  rather than colours that actually closely match their skin tone.