Tag: Skin
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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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Tom Wesselmann, Great American Nude 01 Work, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 69
Tom Wesselmann (1931–2004) was one of the leading American Pop artists of the 1960s. Departing from Abstract Expressionism, he explored classical representations of the nude, still life, and landscape, while incorporating everyday objects and advertising ephemera. Wesselmann was drafted into the US Army in 1952, two years into the Korean War. During his military service, he…
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GARRY SHEAD, THE MEASURING ARTIST 01 Painting, The amorous game, Part 61 – With Footnotes
Garry Shead is an Australian artist and filmmaker. Shead trained at the National Art School, Sydney between 1961 and 1962. He originally worked in media, as an editor of publications related to Oz Magazine and as a scenic artist and film editor for the ABC during the 1960’s. Shead has exhibited in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and…
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Peter-Wilhelm Klasen, Nude/Circuit Breaker on Blue 01 Work, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 68
Peter-Wilhelm Klasen is a German painter, photographer and sculptor, born in Lübeck in 1935. Klasen grew up in a family sensitive to the arts. He started drawing and paining at a very young age. He learnt the techniques of lithography and the airbrushing. Industrial themes mark his work. one can discover in his paintings elements…
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Philip Pearlstein, Seated nude 01 Work, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 67
Philip Pearlstein, born on May 24, 1924 in Pittsburgh, PA, is an influential American painter best known for Modernist Realism nudes. Cited by critics as the preeminent figure painter of the 1960s to 2000s, he led a revival in realist art. He is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus with paintings in the collections of over 70 public art…
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Mounir Fatmi, Evolution or Death (Phoebe) 01 Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #254
Mounir Fatmi examines human vulnerability. He constructs visual environments (comprising such objects as saw blades, stereo speakers, construction hard hats, and flags) and plays with language in a way that questions preconceptions of politics and religion and unearths injustices buried by history. In his 2009 work The Machinery, 30 aggressive-looking industrial saw blades are inscribed with…
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Sacha Goldberger; Catarina 01 Work, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 64
Sacha Goldberger, born in 1968, transforms his sitters from modern day beings into Flemish-style superheroes. His portraits are created using 17th century techniques including the use of light and shadow to highlight the figures. Mixing themes of Flemish paint techniques and modern day models, Goldberger presents his characters in a nostalgic, yet refreshing manner. More on Sacha…
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Nicolas Senegas; Sotto Voce 01 Work, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 63
The present work features a seated figure with her chest exposed and her face turned away from the viewer. The title of the work, “Sotto Voce” is the action of intentionally lowering one’s voice for emphasis, as if to say something under the breath. “Sotto Voce” is a study in the human form and the…
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Ralph Gibson; SELECTED NUDE STUDIES OF LISA 02 Works, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes #62
Ralph Gibson, (born January 16, 1939, Los Angeles, California, U.S.), American photographer whose work reveals a fascination for geometric elements found in everyday life, such as the meeting of two walls or the curve of a human arm. Gibson grew up in Los Angeles, leaving home to enlist in the U.S. Navy at the age…
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Neil Boyle, Your Place or Mine 01 Painting, The amorous game, Part 60 – With Footnotes
Born in Alberta, Canada, Neil Boyle (1931-2006) received formal art training in Alberta at the Banff School of Fine Arts, Canada, and the Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles in the 1950s before teaching art for several years at the California Art Institute in Thousand Oaks, California. Over the next decade, Boyle provided story illustrations for…
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Eugène Narbonne, Menton 01 Work, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 61
In this scene of Menton, on the French Riviera, the sunny port, and the hilly medieval old town crowned by the Basilique Saint-Michel, with its 18th-century bell tower, are of secondary interest to the large bathing beauties basking on the sand in the foreground. More on this painting Menton, town, Provence–Alpes–Côte d’Azur region, southeastern France. Situated…
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Giuseppe Aureli, Peasants in Harvest on Country Road 01 Painting, The amorous game, Part 59 – With Footnotes
Giuseppe Aureli (December 5, 1858 in Rome – 1929) was an Italian painter and watercolourist. His work is noted for its historical subject matter, portraits of Italian noble families as well as genre paintings and local scenes, especially work with Oriental themes. Giuseppe Aureli was born in Rome in 1858. He received his early art…
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Maurice Taquoy, Deux femmes fumant/ Two smoking women 01 Work, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 60
Born in the Marne region, Maurice Taquoy (1878-1952) spent much of his life in and around Paris, mostly in elegant company and at horse racing tracks. When summer came Taquoy would make excursions to other racing venues, such as Deauville, where his services as program illustrator were valued. And while his biotope was mostly that of the…
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René Magritte, LA MAGIE NOIRE 03 Works, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 59
La magie noire belongs to a group of works Magritte executed in the 1940s, on the subject of a female nude in an unidentified landscape. The woman is depicted in a classical manner. This traditional representation, however, is juxtaposed with the unexpected colouration of the figure, whose upper body gradually acquires the tone of the…
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Helmut Newton, Lisa Lyon 02 Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #244
Lisa Lyon (born 1953) is a female bodybuilder and photo model from the United States, and is regarded as one of female bodybuilding’s pioneers. Born in Los Angeles, California in 1953. Lisa Lyon studied art at the University of California at Los Angeles. There she became accomplished in the Japanese art of fencing, kendo, but found…
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Mario Schifano; Naked woman 01 Work, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 57
Mario Schifano (20 September 1934, Khoms, Libya – 26 January 1998, Rome, Italy) was an Italian painter and collagist of the Postmodern tradition. He also achieved some renown as a film-maker and rock musician. He is considered to be one of the most significant and pre-eminent artists of Italian postmodernism. His work was exhibited in the…
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Robert Alexander Hillingford; The Tired Warrior 01 Painting, The amorous game, Part 57 – With Footnotes
Robert Alexander Hillingford (28 January 1828 – 1904) was an English painter. He specialized in historical pictures, often battle scenes. He was born in London on 28 January 1828, and studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf for five years beginning in 1841. He is associated with the Düsseldorf school of painting. He then traveled to Munich, Rome,…
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Gerard van Kuijl, A shepherd and shepherdess 01 Painting, The amorous game, Part 56 – With Footnotes
Gerard van Kuijl or Kuijll (1604, Gorinchem – 1673, Gorinchem), was a Dutch Golden Age painter. He is known for religious and genre works in the style of Caravaggio. Gerard left for Italy in 1627 or 1628. He joined the Bentvueghels with the nickname Stijgbeugel. In Italy he was a pupil of fellow Bentvueghel Jean…
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Salvatore Fiume; Model lying 01 Work, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 56
Salvatore Fiume (23 October 1915 – 3 June 1997) was an Italian painter, sculptor, architect, writer and stage designer. His works are kept in some of the most important museums in the world, among which the Vatican Museums, the Hermitage of Saint Petersburg, the Museum of Modern Art of New York City, the Pushkin Museum of…
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Tamara de Lempicka, NU ASSIS DE PROFIL 01 Work, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 55
Lempicka’s sleek representations of the female nude are renowned as emblems of the Jazz Age. Painted around 1923 in Paris, the female figure in the present work resembles an Amazonian goddess. Her powerful limbs extend beyond the boundary of the picture and the mechanized appearance and sturdy curvature of her body call to mind the…
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