The Modern Warm Period from the late-19th to the early 21st centuries, is only trivially man-made and not pernicious, but rather, is overwhelmingly natural and fully benign.
From Praxiteles’s Aphrodite of Knidos to William-Adolphe Bouguereau’s Birth of Venus, the beautiful nude in art has been the natural complement of the dominance of ideas of reason, individualism, and unbounded optimism. Who’s your favorite nude artist? Mine is Nikolai Leykin.
