Category: Art of the Nude
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Charles Knight, SEATED FEMALE NUDE 01 Work, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 91
Charles Knight, ROI VPRWS (1901-1990), a Sussex landscape painter, channelled the tradition of English watercolour painting in order to produce his own original contribution. As a result, he became a pillar of the Royal Society of Painters in Water-Colours. His father, employed by a firm of Brighton publishers, was a keen naturalist and artist, and…
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Hedi Schick, A Seated Female Nude, with an Attendant 01 Work, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 90
Hedi (Hedwig) Schick (1906 Vienna – 1999 London) was in her younger years strongly influenced by Oskar Kokoschka and Otto Dix. She studied at the Vienna Kunstgewerbeschule (School of Applied Arts), from which she graduated in the early 1930s (her name could be found among those of professional applied artists in the address book of Vienna…
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Paul Delvaux, The Two Friends 01 Work, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 89
Paul Delvaux (23 September 1897 – 20 July 1994) was a Belgian painter famous for his paintings of female nudes. He was influenced by the works of Giorgio de Chirico, and was also briefly associated with surrealism. The young Delvaux took music lessons, studied Greek and Latin, and absorbed the fiction of Jules Verne and the…
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Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Female nude in front of fireplace 01 Work, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 87
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, original name Karl Schmidt, (born December 1, 1884, Rottluff, near Chemnitz, Germany—died August 9, 1976, West Berlin [now Berlin]), German painter and printmaker, noted for his Expressionist landscapes and nudes. In 1905 Schmidt-Rottluff began to study architecture in Dresden, Germany, where he and his friends formed the organization of Expressionist artists known as…
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Eric Kroll, Wife in Field, Eastern Washington 01 Work, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 86
Eric David Kroll (born October 23, 1946 in New York City) is a fetish photographer and book editor who has lived in New York, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. He is currently living in Tucson, Arizona. He earned a BA in Cultural Anthropology from the University of Colorado, Boulder, in 1969. A freelance photojournalist for eleven…
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Sir William Russell Flint, THE SCALES 01 Work, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 85
Flint’s expressive brushwork builds up the heavy clouds of a summer storm (the artist frequently remarked on the country’s sultry heat) while at the local public-scales women gather, the display of strength and sensuality a hallmark of Flint’s work. Sir William Russell Flint (4 April 1880 – 30 December 1969) was a Scottish artist and illustrator…
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Sir William Russell Flint, MODELS FOR OLYMPIANS 01 Work, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 84
Sir William Russell Flint (4 April 1880 – 30 December 1969) was a Scottish artist and illustrator who was known especially for his watercolour paintings of women. He also worked in oils, tempera, and printmaking. He was born in Edinburgh then educated at Daniel Stewart’s College and Edinburgh Institution. From 1894 to 1900 Flint apprenticed as…
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Sir William Russell Flint; The Models for Goddesses 01 Work, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 83
Sir William Russell Flint (4 April 1880 – 30 December 1969) was a Scottish artist and illustrator who was known especially for his watercolour paintings of women. He also worked in oils, tempera, and printmaking. He was born in Edinburgh then educated at Daniel Stewart’s College and Edinburgh Institution. From 1894 to 1900 Flint apprenticed as…
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Emile Henri Bernard, Le Repos à Tonnerre 01 Work, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 82
Tonnerre is a commune in the Yonne department in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in north-central France, seen in through the window in the background. Émile Henri Bernard (28 April 1868 – 16 April 1941) was a French Post-Impressionist painter and writer, who had artistic friendships with Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gauguin and Eugène Boch, and at a later time, Paul…
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Lee Crum, The Elephant Girl 01 Work, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 81
“I do not support the incarceration or abuse of any animal and most of all the Elephant. Elephants are endangered and their well being and preservation must be considered a global priority This image was taken in a zoo in 1983, when advocacy and education for the preservation of elephants was taking root in the US. …
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David Bromley, Tania 01 Work, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 80
David Bromley, (born 1960). David Bromley’s artworks have two clear focal points – the Boys Own adventure project and the Female Nude series. Born in Sheffield, England, in 1960, Bromley came to Australia in 1964. He began his career in Adelaide as a potter, but eventually turned to painting. He takes inspiration from childhood books, popular…
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Helmut Newton, They Come 01 Work, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 79
Helmut Newton was born on October 31, 1920, in Berlin, Germany. He attended the American School in Berlin. From an early age, Newton developed a keen obsession with photography, purchasing his very first camera aged 12. Four years later, Newton was to turn his back on mainstream education, taking an apprenticeship with renowned German photographer, Elsle…
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John Baldessari; Untitled 01 Work, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 78
John Anthony Baldessari, (born June 17, 1931, National City, California, U.S.), American artist whose work in altered and adjusted photographic imagery and video were central to the development of conceptual art in the United States. Baldessari received a B.A. at San Diego State College (SDSC; now San Diego State University) in 1953 and attended the University…
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Alvin Booth; Untitled (Female Nude), New York City, 01 Work, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 77
Alvin Booth is a New York based artist, originally from Hull, England.His work revels both in the intrinsic beauty of the human form, and in the mutations of that beauty. Using the body’s malleability and gravity as a palate, Booth creates a landscape that is at times attractively familiar and at times seductively surreal.Booth’s photographs use…
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Fabio Mauri, Jewish 01 Work, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 76
The symbol is branded along with a number of marks of racial discrimination. The artistic expression of these works with the horrific reality which is evoked. Judaism has an explicit and radical ideological connotation, with a strong accent not only on the negative aspects of Nazi German, but also on the entire European culture That, for…
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Renato Guttuso, Partigiana iugoslava/ Yugoslav Partisan, 01 Work, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 75
The Yugoslav Partisans, or the National Liberation Army, officially the National Liberation Army and Partisan Detachments of Yugoslavia, was the Communist-led resistance to the Axis powers (chiefly Germany) in occupied Yugoslavia during World War II. It is considered to be Europe’s most effective anti-Axis resistance movement during World War II, often compared to the Polish…
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Lev Tchistovsky, Reclining Nude 01 Work, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 74
Lev Tchistovsky (1902-1969) was a Russian figurative painter specialised in feminine nudes. He first trained at the Fine Art School in Saint-Petersbourg, where he was a pupil of Savinsky and Eberling. Laureate of his school, he left USSR in 1925 and took classes at the Fine Arts School in Roma and after in Florence. He met…
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Jiang Nan, Untitled 01 Work, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 73
Jiang Nan: Born in 1977 in China’s Jiangsu Province, Lu Xinjian began weaving himself into the art world through the outlet of design, earning a degree from the Computer Graphic Design Department of Nanjing Arts Institute in China in 2000, and holding a teaching position at the College of Arts and Design at Yeungnam University…
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Melinda Matyas, Room without a view 01 Work, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 71
Melinda Matyas’ work is based on the contemplation of the “hidden”, the “less visible”, searching the fragmentation and disintegration of the subject where the color and texture become the binding element. In her work the figurative representation breaks up, the forms are slightly falling apart giving free hand to the less visible to emerge, this way…
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Russell James; Ten New Angels 01 Work, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 70
Russell James (born 1962 in Perth) is a fashion, celebrity and beauty photographer. Russell was born in Western Australia and spent much of his childhood moving from city to city due to his working class father. After dropping out of school at age 14, Russell got his first job working in a factory that made trashcans.…
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