Tag: Skin
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Lawrence Schiller; Marilyn Monroe, Something’s Got To Give 01 Work, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 54
Marilyn Monroe, original name Norma Jeane Mortenson, later called Norma Jeane Baker, Jeane sometimes spelled Jean, (born June 1, 1926, Los Angeles, California, U.S.—died August 5, 1962, Los Angeles), American actress who became a major sex symbol, starring in a number of commercially successful motion pictures during the 1950s. Her mother was frequently confined in an…
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Frank Eugene; Adam and Eve 01 Work, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 53
Adam and Eve, according to the creation myth of the Abrahamic religions, were the first man and woman and the ancestors of all humans. The story of Adam and Eve is central to the belief that YHWH created human beings to live in a paradise on earth, although they fell away from that state and formed…
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Marcel Gromaire, Torso with bouquet 01 Work, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 88
Marcel Gromaire (24 July 1892 – 11 April 1971) was a French painter. He painted many works on social subjects, and is often associated with Social Realism, however, one can say that Gromaire created an independent oeuvre far away from groups and movements Gromaire was born in Noyelles-sur-Sambre, France. He studied classically at Douai, then continued…
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Helmut Newton; Portrait of Olga Rodionova 02 Works, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 52
Olga Rodionova (born 25 June 1974) is a Croatian-Russian model, an actress and a TV presenter. As a model, Rodionova has worked with some of the best fashion photographers in the world, including Helmut Newton, David LaChapelle, Peter Lindbergh, Terry Richardson, Sante D’Orazio, Bettina Rheims, Ellen von Unwerth, John Rankin, Jean-Daniel Lorieux, Marino Parisotto, Guido Argentini…
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Pietro Dandini, YOUNG WOMAN AND THE PROCURES. 01 Painting, The amorous game, Part 53 – With Footnotes
An old woman in a dark robe with a white shawl and a white towel on her hair, above a yellow high hat, turns to a young woman. She also has a stick in her right hand and with her left hand she holds up a purse. The young woman in a bright red skirt,…
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Henry VIII’s six wives 07 Paintings, The amorous game, Henry VIII’s six wives. 50 – With Footnotes
The wives of Henry VIII were the six queens consort wedded to Henry VIII of England between 1509 and 1547. The six women to hold the title “queen consort” of King Henry VIII were, in chronological order: Catherine of Aragon, (divorced, died while detained under guard at Kimbolton Castle, mother of Mary I) Anne Boleyn, (divorced and later executed, mother of Elizabeth I) Jane…
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NORMAN LINDSAY, Summer Idyll 01 Work, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 53
Norman Alfred William Lindsay (22 February 1879 – 21 November 1969) was an Australian artist, etcher, sculptor, writer, editorial cartoonist, scale modeller, and an accomplished amateur boxer. In 1895, Lindsay moved to Melbourne to work on a local magazine with his older brother Lionel. In 1901, he and Lionel, his older brother, joined the staff of the Sydney…
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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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David Drebin, Kissing Legs, 2018 01 Photograph, The amorous game, Part 54 – With Footnotes
Love stories and landscapes are at the foundation of David Drebin’s panoramas, portraits, and neon sculptures. His monograph Love and Other Stories (2007) features solitary women in urban tableaux—high-rise apartments buildings and terraces, freeway overpasses and hotel rooms. Dressed alternately in bikinis, evening gowns, and negligees, the women appear to be in various stages of a love…
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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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Norman Alfred William Lindsay, Woman Enchanting Man 01 Painting, The amorous game, Part 52 – With Footnotes
Norman Alfred William Lindsay (22 February 1879 – 21 November 1969) was an Australian artist, etcher, sculptor, writer, editorial cartoonist, scale modeller, and an accomplished amateur boxer. In 1895, Lindsay moved to Melbourne to work on a local magazine with his older brother Lionel. In 1901, he and Lionel, his older brother, joined the staff of the Sydney…
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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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Robert G. Harris, LOVERS ON THE BEACH, 01 Painting, The amorous game, Part 51 – With Footnotes
Robert George Harris was born September 9, 1911 in Kansas City, Missouri. Harris studied at the Kansas City Art Institute since the age of fourteen. In 1933 he left Kansas City and drove a motorcycle all the way to New York City. He opened an art studio in New Rochelle at 560 Main Street. His…
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