Tag: nude
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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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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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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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ERWIN OLAF, MILAN HOTEL 01 Work, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 32
These photographs by Irwin feature models posing sometimes elegantly, provocatively or demurely in replica hotel guest rooms across the world with subtle differences such as a discarded shoe or a lit message on an answer phone. Particularly influenced by the early 1960’s, the décor and lighting make reference to this era and are further underscored…
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Alfred “di” Cesare; Ultraviolet 01 Work, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 30
Alfred Di Cesare was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1910. At fourteen he suffered an injury playing football and spent two months in a hospital on bed rest, it was during this time that he began to sketch pencil portraits of the doctors. His family doctor encouraged Di Cesare’s father to enroll his son in the…
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Marià Fortuny, The Odalisque 01 Works & Movie, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 29
An odalisque (Turkish: Odalık) was a chambermaid or a female attendant in a Turkish seraglio, particularly the court ladies in the household of the Ottoman sultan. An odalık was not a concubine of the harem, but a maid, although it was possible that she could become one. An odalık was ranked at the bottom of the…
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Thomas Saliot, Golden Skin Blue 01 Work, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 28
Thomas Saliot: “I live in Morocco, France and Spain where i paint simple iconic images from the net or my life, like big oil sketches. I have been painting professionally for over thirty years. Sort of a child of Hopper, figurative and Pop art, i love colors, provocation and big canvas. Thomas Saliot was born in…
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Richard Prince, GIRLFRIEND 01 Work, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 27
Richard Prince (born 1949) is an American painter and photographer. In the mid-1970s, Prince made drawings and painterly collages that he has since disowned. He began copying other photographers’ work in 1977. His image, Untitled (Cowboy), a rephotographing of a photograph by Sam Abell and appropriated from a cigarette advertisement, was the first rephotograph to be…
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Wade Reynolds; Nude 01 Painting, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 20
Wade Reynolds (born Charles Elwood Reynolds; June 5, 1929 – October 3, 2011) was a self-taught realist painter, Reynolds was best known for his figurative paintings often classified as California School of Light. Reynolds was born in Jasper, New York, in 1929. He began his professional art career in New York City where he was hired…
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Pino Daeni; Purity Embellished 01 Works & Movie, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 26
Pino Daeni (November 8, 1939 – May 25, 2010) was an Italian-American book illustrator and artist. He is known for his style of feminine, romantic women and strong men painted with loose but accurate brushwork. Considered one of the highest paid book illustrators of his time, he created over 3,000 book covers, movie posters and magazine…
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Martein Peeters, Nudes 01 Works & Movie, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 25
Martein Peeters (1969) works as a painter in Amsterdam. As a thirteen year old Peeters discovered oil paint. Inspired by the works of Van der Weyden, Eyck and Willink, he started making very detailed large paintings. Peeters continued his journey as a painter at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp, known for its traditional…
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