Category: Art of the Nude
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Werner Berges, Mirror picture 01 Work, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 72
“For me, a beautiful woman is still the most perfect that I can imagine: the ideal object of art.” Berges Werner Berges (born December 7, 1941 in Cloppenburg , † October 26, 2017 in Schallstadt) was a German Pop Art artist. For a number of contemporary critics Berges matured very early to one of the most…
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Slawomir Rumiak, The Violin of Kaimurakis 01 Work, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 50
Sławomir Rumiak is a photographer, video and installation artist, and draughtsman. He is a graduate of the Katowice branch of the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków (1999). Rumiak was born in 1972 in Bielsko-Biała. He gained international recognition very early on, when he was still a student at the Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice…
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Marcel Mariën, La pudeur/ Modesty 01 Works, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 45
Marcel Mariën (April 29, 1920 in Antwerp – September 19, 1993 in Brussels) was a Belgian surrealist (later Situationist), poet, essayist, photographer, collagist, filmmaker, and maker of objects. Mariën was one of the most intriguing and elusive figures in the Belgian wing of the Surrealist movement. He was not only an artist, but also a publisher, a…
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Warren B. Davis; A Young Nymph 01 Work, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 49
A nymph in Greek and Latin mythology is a minor female nature deity typically associated with a particular location or landform. Different from other goddesses, nymphs are generally regarded as divine spirits who animate nature, and are usually depicted as beautiful, young nubile maidens who love to dance and sing; their amorous freedom sets them apart…
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SANYU; Five Nudes 01 Painting, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 151
The first time Sanyu encountered the exotic and strange world of nude sketching was in the 1920s at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière. For the average Chinese person at that time, it must have been hard to accept that depictions of naked woman should be anything but a form of glorified pornography, even though…
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Marcel Marien, The answer of Maria 02 Works, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 44
Marcel Mariën (April 29, 1920 in Antwerp – September 19, 1993 in Brussels) was a Belgian surrealist (later Situationist), poet, essayist, photographer, collagist, filmmaker, and maker of objects. Mariën was one of the most intriguing and elusive figures in the Belgian wing of the Surrealist movement. He was not only an artist, but also a publisher,…
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Federico Zandomeneghi, THE MODEL RESTING IN THE STUDIO 01 Work, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 48
Federico Zandomeneghi (June 2, 1841 – December 31, 1917) was an Italian Impressionist painter, born in Venice. As a young man, he enrolling in 1856 first in the Accademia di Belle Arti in Venice, and then in the Academy of Fine Arts of Milan. In 1859, to avoid conscription into the Austrian army, he flees Venice. The next year in he…
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Jan MC Asselbergs, YOUNG WOMAN IN A KIMONO 01 Work, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 47
Jan MC Asselbergs, 1937 – 2015 YOUNG WOMAN IN A KIMONO Oil on canvas. 100.5 x 70 cm. Private collection In front of a screen painted with green leaves standing a young woman with brown hair in back view. She has slightly turned her head and is about to strip her Japanese silk kimono printed…
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MARIAN MARCEL, Les frôleuses 01 Work, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 46
Les frôleuses; Provocative woman; seductive. Marcel Mariën (April 29, 1920 in Antwerp – September 19, 1993 in Brussels) was a Belgian surrealist (later Situationist), poet, essayist, photographer, collagist, filmmaker, and maker of objects. Mariën was one of the most intriguing and elusive figures in the Belgian wing of the Surrealist movement. He was not only an artist, but…
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Maximilien Luce, NU ASSIS/ SITTING NUDE 01 Work, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 43
Maximilien Luce (13 March 1858 – 6 February 1941) was a prolific French Neo-impressionist artist, known for his paintings, illustrations, engravings, and graphic art, and also for his anarchist activism. Starting as an engraver, he then concentrated on painting, first as an Impressionist, then as a Pointillist, and finally returning to Impressionism. In 1872, the fourteen-year-old…
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Kees van Dongen, NUDE STANDING ON GREEN BACKGROUND AND PINK 01 Works, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 42
Cornelis Theodorus Maria ‘Kees’ van Dongen (26 January 1877 – 28 May 1968) was a Dutch-French painter and one of the Fauves at the controversial 1905 Salon d’Automne exhibition. He gained a reputation for his sensuous, at times garish, portraits. Kees van Dongen was born in Delfshaven, a borough of Rotterdam. He was the second of…
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Bernard Dufour, FEMME NUE 03 Works, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 41
Dufour cannot paint anybody. He paints the woman he most desires among all the ones he sees. It cannot work without desire. He chooses to represent female nudes, but not any woman, she who touches him the most, his. Dufour speaks about bodies: the other’s body. And by doing so, he speaks about the very…
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Moses Soyer, Seated Nude. 01 Work, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 40
Moses Soyer (December 25, 1899 – September 3, 1974) was an American social realist painter. Soyer was born in Borisoglebsk, Russian Empire, in 1899. His family emigrated to the United States in 1912. Two of Soyer’s brothers, Raphael (his identical twin) and Isaac were also painters. Soyer’s wife, Ida, was a dancer, and dancers are a recurring…
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Robert Philipp, My Model, My Studio 01 Work, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 39
Robert Philipp (February 2, 1895 – November 22, 1981) was an American painter influenced by Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, and known for his nudes, still lifes, and portraits of attractive women and Hollywood stars. Noted art critic Henry McBride called Philipp one of America’s top six painters of his generation. He was an instructor of painting at…
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Jurij Frey; Bathers at night 01 Work, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 38
The German artist Jurij Frey has developed a realist style of painting whose blocks of colour and contrasts of light nevertheless allow us to make out all of the inner complexity. Inspired by a universal subject, man and his condition, the painter and trained illustrator proceeds with touches that he applies with lively, irregular gestures, always…
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Romualdo Locatelli, Risveglio/Awakening 01 Works The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 37
For Locatelli there are no problems beyond the beauty of the abundance of life. One will find no depth and metaphysical ideas in his work. In a spontaneous manner he reveals the beauty of the body and nature. Here there is no sadness and sorrow that are shown, but their opposite, the beauty and happiness…
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Leo Putz, WALDESRUHE (FOREST CALM) 01 Works, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 36
Painted in Gauting circa 1925 after the artist’s return from exile in the Netherlands during the First World War, this painting exemplifies Putz’s freely painted compositions of nudes and bathers by the water’s edge. The setting for this and so many of Putz’s paintings was the lake country around Schloss Hartmannsberg, where the artist and…
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Felix Labisse, Nu Assis dans les Dunes 01 Work, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 35
Félix Labisse (March 9, 1905 – January 27, 1982) was a French Surrealist painter, illustrator, and designer. He divided his time between Paris and the Belgian coast from 1927. In Ostend he met James Ensor, who influenced his work. Beginning in 1931 he designed for the theater. His paintings depict fantastical hybrid creatures, and are often…
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Allan Douglas Davidson, Model posing 01 Work, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 34
Allan Douglas Davidson, R.B.A., R.O.I., R.M.S. (1873–1932) was an English painter who predominantly worked in oils and specialized in female nudes. He was born in London on 14 May 1873. His father was the historical painter Thomas Davidson (1842–1919). Allan studied art at the Royal Academy Schools in London, where he won a medal and the Armitage…
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WILLIAM HENRY CLAPP, THE ARTIST AND HIS MODEL 01 Painting, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 33
William Henry Clapp is one of the monarchs of Canadian Impressionism. Indifferent as an artist to the emotional elements implicit in everyday experience, he extolled landscapes and the human figure – specifically the nude. In painting these works, he observed the phenomena of light on the generative forces of the organic world. The body is…
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