The young woman sits seductively on a chair, a yellow scarf draped around her waist. Her breasts are bare and she flicks her long hair. The master Affandi sketch her every single pose.The nude has obsessed artists since antiquity as they strived to capture the perfection of human lady, but also wracked society's puritans. Throught the ages as they struggle with the concept that the human body is the ultimate art form.The nude becomes an art work when it is interpreted by a artist.The human body for an artist is the most important subject because everything is eclated to man, so the human body becomes a symbol of the individual.Some artists interpred the nude as something perfect the perfect balance between all the parts of the human body.

Others want to express reality not an ideal beauty. The express the most ugly part of the human body. Drawing the nude is a foundation for an artist. The creation of the nude drawing is it seld an act of love, the movement of the hand over the surface of the canvas or the grain of the paper to create the density and substance of the flesh in a kind of caress, said the master. The great thing about drawing is the intimacy, spontanity the wonderful sense of touch and detail that actually trancends both time and place.

Drawing the figure the human body from the master like michelangelo to more modern artist such as Pablo Picasso. It begins with the renounce concept of 'ideal body' but it was Ruben's muscle bound hercules, not his corvaceous female nudes which were then regarded an perfect beauty. From ancient times the clasiccal idea of beauty was contrasted. With its opposite the grotesque the misshapen and excesive.

Despite different drawings artist from the renaisance to modern times have used the same technic as they search to portray the imposible- the human body. In the renaisance, the male plutonic philosophy established 'what is beautiful in good and what in good is beautiful'. This was not vanity, this was a philosiphycal concept. 'Today, we are not as honest as in the renaisance', When does the nude change from art to pornography? 'Pornography is the corruption of the sense of reality'