This summer, Channel 4 will be airing a new series before the 9pm watershed which will feature nude models who’ll be posing for artists to draw and paint, both in the studio and for viewers at home.

The show, entitled Life Class: Today’s Nude, “hopes to promote a return to elementary skills of drawing and painting, and spark a revival of more traditional, figurative art” according to Channel 4.

The show is initially scheduled to be aired in a 6pm slot and will feature both male and female full-frontal nudity, which is sure to draw complaints from viewers who deem it inappropriate for that time slot, but what do you think? Is it too early to show nude bodies all over the shop or is it ok in the name of ‘art’?

The five-part series is scheduled to be broadcast in July and will encourage viewers to “sketch along at home while an expert in the corner of the screen offers advice.”

Alan Kane, the artist who came up with the idea for the programme said, “Because it is educational and non-sexualised nudity, Channel 4 didn’t have any concerns with it at all…” Read more & comment »