Kortrijk, The city attracts in the Royal Academy of Fine Arts on the Houtmarkt the salary for naaktmodellen from 12,39 to 16.50 euro per hour. Now that the news recently is well known, raining applications from men. “There are already fifteen candidates. Unfortunately, women continue to be away,” says director Petra Flamand.
Notable scenes in the academy, where, since the higher fee men is almost to be sliding around as a nude model to start. Women stay away, and no one actually knows why. “Perhaps women are more critical of their bodies than men”, is a student of life drawing Veerle Vanhuysse. Also possible: posing nude does not fit in the picture of the current ‘new preutsheid’.
Underwear
May be play there are still factors play a role. “Men do it more out of interest for the art”, says Petra Flamand. “Women do the previously out of financial considerations. I suspect that the new fee for a lot of women is not high enough. Posing is not an easy job. A session of four hours is very physically strenuous. Sometimes you have to spend hours on a piece of the same pose, hold, or just around the two-minute change. That also requires a lot of creativity. Only men bets as a nude model is not the solution. Because a woman’s body is completely different,” says Petra Flamand. A part of the students indicates silently that the wearing of a onderbroekje, especially with the women, no problem. But evident it is not. “The less textile, the less distraction,” emphasizes Petra Flamand. When a woman wearing panties, you see, for example, less well how her hips tilt. And if they have a bra with straps wear, you can see her collarbone.
No hesitation
With eroticism has, according to Geert Devriese (66) in any event, nothing to do. He is already sixteen years old nude model, with conviction. “Or a chair or a nude model, you look after just a few minutes. If true both objects. I have no fear. There are people who do their body to science donate, we give it to the art. A nude model is much more than a static image. Every model is different. The perspective, the proportions of the body… there are so many details. Who is a nude model to draw, can draw.”
