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That's perhaps why Sylvia Sleigh's works are sometimes seen as shocking – even today. Student works by women on Art UK through the twentieth century show that even when they painted from life, the male models were often modestly covered. However, having a woman artist creating a male nude has been something of a rarity, especially depicting any hint of genitalia. There are also works with clear homoerotic undertones in many male artists' works, from Michelangelo to Henry Scott Tuke. Male nudity in art had long been accepted as heroic and is found all the way back to ancient Greece.

Perhaps some kind of brief would have been useful. However, the trustees of the School did not appreciate the display of male genitalia and would not allow it to be placed above the School's entrance unless Kennington added a loincloth.Īs one would hope from an artist with integrity, he refused to censor or change his vision and so the work was placed above the entrance of the library where it remains today. Kelly was one of the foremost portrait artists of his time, and yet even his standing could not prevent a public backlash when this painting went on display in Newport Museum and Art Gallery in 1947.Įric Henri Kennington (1888–1960) London School of Hygiene & Tropical MedicineĪs you can see, the panel depicts a mother and child being protected from a fanged serpent by a nude, bearded, knife-wielding father.

This can be shown in the works of Philip Wilson Steer for example, his Seated Nude: The Black Hat, painted around 1900. The next nude on our list is by the firmly establishment figure of Sir Gerald Festus Kelly. Some of the issues around depicting female nudes are that nudity was traditionally fine for representing goddesses, personifications or other mythological beings, but not for actual real women. But here's a quick look at some of the other works in the UK that have a salacious or saucy history. There are private works not originally intended to be shown to the public, such as Goya's La Maya desnuda (The Naked Maja) and Courbet's L'Origine du monde (The Origin of the World) – both are now in major museums (the Prado and Musee D'Orsay respectively). There are famous examples that caused a stir in public such as Manet's Olympia and the 1917 exhibition of Modigliani's works that was closed, supposedly due to the depiction of pubic hair. Artistic nudes have had a complicated history, tied up with the male gaze, the public perception of what was 'decent' at different times in history, religion, and plenty of other factors. Surely the Preston nude can't be the only one that caused some controversy at the time. There is no specific reaction recorded to this particular painting, but it set me wondering if this had been a common occurrence in galleries throughout the land. In the future, we want to increase MMS’s coverage to support even more languages, and also tackle the challenge of handling dialects, which is often difficult for existing speech technology.George Spencer Watson (1869–1934) Russell-Cotes Art Gallery & Museum And while the content of the audio recordings is religious, our analysis shows that this doesn’t bias the model to produce more religious language. While this data is from a specific domain and is often read by male speakers, our analysis shows that our models perform equally well for male and female voices. As part of the MMS project, we created a dataset of readings of the New Testament in more than 1,100 languages, which provided on average 32 hours of data per language.ī y considering unlabeled recordings of various other Christian religious readings, we increased the number of languages available to more than 4,000. These translations have publicly available audio recordings of people reading these texts in different languages. To overcome this, we turned to religious texts, such as the Bible, that have been translated in many different languages and whose translations have been widely studied for text-based language translation research.

Our ApproachĬollecting audio data for thousands of languages was our first challenge because the largest existing speech datasets cover 100 languages at most.

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We’re open-sourcing our models and code so that others in the research community can build on our work and help preserve the world’s languages and bring the world closer together. There are also many use cases for speech technology - from virtual and augmented reality technology to messaging services - that can be used in a person’s preferred language and can understand everyone’s voice. Massively Multilingual Speech (MMS) models expand text-to-speech and speech-to-text technology from around 100 languages to more than 1,100 - more than 10 times as many as before - and can also identify more than 4,000 spoken languages, 40 times more than before.

Models female series#

We want to make it easier for people to access information and use devices in their preferred language, and today we’re announcing a series of artificial intelligence (AI) models that could help them do just that. Many of the world’s languages are in danger of disappearing, and the limitations of current speech recognition and generation technology will only accelerate this trend.