Tag: Skin
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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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Juarez Machado, Tango, 2005. 02 Paintings, The amorous game, Part 50 – With Footnotes
Juarez Machado was born in 1941 in the city of Joinville, in the state of Santa Catarina, Brazil. He studied at the School of Art in the state of Paranâ, in the city of Curitiba, and participated actively in its artistic movement. In 1966 he took up residence in Rio de Janeiro, intensifying his activities. In…
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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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David Bailey; John and Yoko, 1971 01 Photograph, The amorous game, Part 56 – With Footnotes
Yoko Ono Lennon, (born February 18, 1933, Tokyo, Japan), Japanese artist and musician who was an influential practitioner of conceptual and performance art in the 1960s and who became internationally famous as the wife and artistic partner of musician John Lennon. More on John and Yoko David Royston Bailey, CBE (2 January 1938) is an English fashion and…
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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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Walter G. Ratterman, A Romany Night 01 Painting, The amorous game, Part 55 – With Footnotes
Walter G. Ratterman (1887-1944) was a twentieth-century American genre painter and illustrator. In the 1920s, he had lived and painted in New York, where the majority of his artworks and illustrations were published. He subsequently moved and lived in Woodstock, New York from the 1930s. Ratterman’s artwork was published in various American books and periodicals between…
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Léon Zeytline, Champagne with a bitter taste 01 Paintings, The amorous game, Part 54 – With Footnotes
Leon Zeytline, (1885 -1962), was a Russian painter who moved from Moscow to the capital of France at the beginning of the 20th century. He started depicting daily life of Paris during the 1920’s, illustrating the numerous and famous squares and boulevards, such as the “Boulevard de l’Opéra” and “Les Champs Elysées”. His work is…
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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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David Manzur Londoño; LA SERENATA 01 Painting, The amorous game, Part 53 – With Footnotes
David Manzur Londoño (born December 14, 1929) is a Colombian painter. His subjects include still lifes, mounted knights, and saints. Manzur was born in Neira, Caldas, Colombia. His father, Salomón Manzur, was a Lebanese businessman; his mother, Cecilia Londoño Botero, was Colombian. He spent his childhood and adolescence in Bata, Equatorial Guinea, in the Canary Islands,…
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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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Igor Semeko, Hug 01 Painting, The amorous game, Part 53 – With Footnotes
Igor Semeko was born in Belarus in 1961, and he studied at the Minsk School of Art from 1976 until 1980. He continued his art studies in the Academy of Art Republic Belarus, until 1986. Semeko specializes in decorative and applied arts in oil, and his works are characterized by rich textures and colors. He…
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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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Ezio Ricci; Old Couple 01 Painting, The amorous game, Part 52 – With Footnotes
Ezio Ricci, (Lucca 1885 – 1968), was born in Lucca, a pupil at the local Istituto di Belle Arti, Ezio Ricci showed an early talent for real life painting. In 1916 he was appointed professor of the decorative arts at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Perugia, where he spent seven years working hard but…
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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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