“Nude is the most beautiful art form”

How can we really feel close to the subjects represented in works of art? It would be magic to think that the paintings in the museums can speak to us, tell us what they want to communicate and what the characters are living, many times described only through the pen of some art historian. However, we have one thing in common with Venuses or knights: the body. The great masters of art have represented feelings through the body, described for what it was, centuries ago as today.
Anastasia Mihaylova‘s shots connect this union between the naked body of the present and the past, described in works of art. It is a close relationship, in which intimacy is not involved, where complicity is enclosed in the naked beauty of bodies, the most beautiful art form according to the photographer.
That of Anastasia Mihaylova is an exercise that through photography also wants to denounce censorship in contemporary art, which recently deleted the artist’s social profiles. Instagram’s discrimination against certain creatives is a central theme of Mihaylova’s recent production. With “Nude is the most beautiful art form” the photographer wants to highlight the beauty of art and the body as inspiration and harmony of form. The naked body is an important aspect throughout the history of painting and sculpture, a model to be copied in the atelier or to represent the divine purity.
Three women share the scene and the relationship with the works hanging on the walls of a museum, a choreography, an act of courtship but also a framed mirror in which to see themselves.

A shot by Anastasia Mihaylova will be on display at Collater.al Photography 2022.