cushion over it. The background is very plain and does not stand out in anyway. There is a dingy white sheet that is hung over a wall and that is place in front of the man. His bench is sitting on some red-orange carpet. It looks like the man is in an apartment studio because you can see that there is a passageway behind the white sheet. He is sitting down and he is leaning over. However, the painting make you want to reach out and just touch it because it looks so life like and so real. It seems to be that the mans body is soft and comfortable. His body seems so soft and comfortable that a small child could fall asleep on the man and never wake up. Freud makes the man look textured almost like he is real. The mans head is slightly turned to the left side as if he is looking at something in which he has in front of him. We are unable to see it because his back is towards us. The story to the man is simple, he has just gotten out of the shower and he is relaxing. He is taking a break form his go go go life. The man is looking at something on his body, like a mark that he has found, but he does not know how it got there. So he is examining it. He is getting ready to go out so he does not want anything to go wrong and he thinks that if one thing goes wrong, the whole night could be ruined. Even though this mark will not be noticeable to anyone, just by him knowing that it is there will make him uneasy and up tight. He is already self-conscious about the way he looks but one more thing wrong with him could be enough to break him.The most apparent similarity of each of these figures is that the artist/sculptors of each figure did their figure in the nude. There were no clothes on any of the figures and the artist bared to show all. The Seated Scribe and Naked Man are similar because they both are of men who are older and have more experience with life. Both of the men were physically done correct according to real life. ...
