Break forth into joy, sing together, ye waste places of Jerusalem: for the L hath comforted his people, he hath redeemed Jerusalem. The L hath made bare his holyarm in the eyes of all the nations; and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORDORDIsaiah 52:9^10.

One of the most striking of abstract art's appearance is her nakedness, an art stripped bare.

-Motherwell, Robert
  Paper given at a symposium, 5 Feb, at the Museum of Modern  Art, NewYork, published in What  Abstract  Art Means to Me: Bulletin of the Museum of Modern  Art (Spring1951).

Pylons, those pillars Bare like nude, giant girls that have no secret.

-Spender, Sir Stephen Harold
  'Pylons'.