Tag: Skin
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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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Rebecca Leveille, Give Me Pretty Things 01 Painting, The amorous game, Part 55 – With Footnotes
Rebecca Guay is an artist known early in her career as an illustrator, commissioned for work. Guay received a degree in Illustration from the Pratt Institute in New York City in 1992. She subsequently turned primarily toward gallery work, opening her first solo exhibition in 2013. After 2011,Guaye began focusing primarily on large scale gallery work…
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István Cene gál, Forbidden love III 01 Painting, The amorous game, Part 53 – With Footnotes
István Cene gál was born in 1969 in Salgótarján, Hungary. He studied artistic drawing under the guidance of first Ödön Iványi, then Péter Földi. He also studied art history in a course led by Professor Dr. Lajos Végvári at the Association of Art in Miskolc. He got his degree at the College Department of the…
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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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Eugen de Blaas, The courtship, 01 Painting, The amorous game, Part 52 – With Footnotes
Eugene de Blaas, (24 July 1843 – 10 February 1932), was an Italian painter in the school known as Academic Classicism. He was born at Albano, near Rome, to Austrian parents. His father Karl, also a painter, was his teacher. The family moved to Venice when Karl became Professor at the Academy of Venice. He…
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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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Lavinia Fontana, Mars and Venus 01 Painting, The amorous game, Part 64 – With Footnotes
In a bedroom a man and a young woman pose as Mars and Venus. She is completely naked and looks back: she stares at us and hands us a narcissus flower. He has only his helmet on his head and a drape covers his private parts: he looks at her and, almost frightened, puts his…
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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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Kimberly Dow; Unfastened, 01 Painting, The amorous game, Part 63 – With Footnotes
Kimberly Dow (Dow Kimberly) – American contemporary artist, born in 1968, in Corpus Christi, Texas, USA. She started to draw in childhood. What started as a simple hobby, eventually turned into a real passion. Today Kimberly writes professionally and exhibited his realistic paintings at various galleries in the United States over the last 20 years. the…
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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…