Tag: Skin
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Jack Vettriano, SURRENDER 01 Painting, The amorous game, Part 44 – With Footnotes
Jack Vettriano, OBE (né Jack Hoggan, born 17 November 1951), is a Scottish painter. His 1992 painting, The Singing Butler, became a best-selling image in Britain. Jack Vettriano grew up in the industrial seaside town of Methil, Fife. He was raised in poverty, and lived with his mother, father and older brother in a spartan miner’s…
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Conrad Jon Godly, Amber Smith 02 Works, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 16
Amber Smith was born in Tampa, Florida. Smith started modeling by age 16. As a teenager she was represented by Irene Marie Models in Miami Beach and traveled to Paris, France, where she worked as a model throughout Europe for four years. Her breakthrough came when her naturally blonde hair was dyed red, giving her a…
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Tom Wesselmann, Study for Nude Lithograph, 01 Painting, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 15
Initially a cartoonist for men’s magazines, Tom Wesselmann reduced the classical female nude to her essential components: lips, nips and pubes. His Venuses have tan lines. Cigarettes dangle from their rocket-red mouths. Their crisp outlines resonate with the immediacy of a neon sign. Like the nudes of Titian, Velasquez, or Rubens, Wesselmann’s mid-century modern nudes…
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Tom Wesselmann, LONG DELAYED NUDE 01 Painting, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 14
Tom Wesselmann, 1931 – 2004 LONG DELAYED NUDE, dated 1967-75 Oil on shaped canvas 172 x 258 cm; 67 3/4 x 101 9/16 in. Private property Initially a cartoonist for men’s magazines, Tom Wesselmann reduced the classical female nude to her essential components: lips, nips and pubes. His Venuses have tan lines. Cigarettes dangle from…
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Eugen von Blaas, THE MANDOLINIST 01 Paintings, The amorous game, Part 48 – With Footnotes
Eugen von Blaas was famed for depicting beautiful Italian women at work or in the company of admiring suitors. Anticipation shows a dark haired young woman leaning her elbow on a balustrade overlooking the Venetian lagoon. She dreamily gazes towards the water, where a gondola is just coming into view. The precise technique and bright palette…
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Jack Vettriano, How Do You Stop? 01 Paintings, The amorous game, Part 46 – With Footnotes
Jack Vettriano, OBE (né Jack Hoggan, born 17 November 1951), is a Scottish painter. His 1992 painting, The Singing Butler, became a best-selling image in Britain. Jack Vettriano grew up in the industrial seaside town of Methil, Fife. He was raised in poverty, and lived with his mother, father and older brother in a spartan miner’s…
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06 Photographs: Elle McPherson; by Ellen von Unwerth and Herb Ritts
Eleanor Nancy Macpherson (née Gow; born 29 March 1964) is an Australian model, businesswoman, television host and actress. She is known for her record five cover appearances for the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue beginning in the 1980s, leading to her nickname “The Body”, coined by Time in 1989. She is the founder, primary model, and creative…
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Marie Félix Hippolyte-Lucas; A portrait of Loie Fuller 01 Painting, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 12
Loie Fuller, original name Marie Louise Fuller, (born Jan. 15, 1862, Fullersburg, Ill., U.S.—died Jan. 1, 1928, Paris, France), American dancer who achieved international distinction for her innovations in theatrical lighting, as well as for her invention of the “Serpentine Dance,” a striking variation on the popular “skirt dances” of the day. Fuller made her…
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Elena vitaliy Vasilievy; Prism of life 02 Photograph, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 11
“Creation is the birth of something, and something cannot come from nothing. When someone creates something: a painting, a poem, a photograph, the creativity comes from an idea, from a feeling, from emotion, or from a combination of ideas, feelings and emotions that are somehow ‘reborn’ from all our experiences and perspectives.” More on this photograph…
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Maurice de Vlaminck, NU COUCHÉ 01 Painting, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 10
Maurice de Vlaminck (4 April 1876 – 11 October 1958) was a French painter. Along with André Derain and Henri Matisse he is considered one of the principal figures in the Fauve movement, a group of modern artists who from 1904 to 1908 were united in their use of intense colour. Vlaminck was one of the…
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Wayne Thiebaud, NUDE on the stretcher 01 painting, The Art Of The Nude, reclining beauty, with footnotes # 9
Nude is a stunning example of Wayne Thiebaud’s singular mastery of realist painting. Having worked from a live model, Thiebaud reveals his gifted draftsmanship and technical skill in the distinctive individual features of the sitter. Thiebaud deliberately avoids placing the figure in a context that would lead to an implied narrative. By positioning the figure…
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Johannes Vermeer, The Procuress 01 Paintings, The amorous game, Part 45 – With Footnotes
The woman in black, the leering coupler, “in a nun’s costume”, could be the eponymous procuress, while the man to her right, “wearing a black beret and a doublet with slashed sleeves”, has been identified as a self portrait of the artist. The man, a soldier, in the red jacket is fondling the young woman’s…
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José Cruz Herrera, A draped reclining beauty 01 Photograph, The Art Of The Nude, reclining beauty, with footnotes # 8
José Cruz Herrera (1 October 1890 – 11 August 1972) was a Spanish painter who concentrated principally on genre works and landscape art. He worked in Spain, Uruguay, Argentina, France and especially Morocco, where he lived for much of his life in Casablanca. His talent was soon apparent and he began formal training in Cádiz. He…
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Ray McCarty, Ma’am Are Those Real? 01 Paintings, The amorous game, Part 36 – With Footnotes
Ray McCarty. As early as the age of five, McCarty began demonstrating his artistic talent. Raised in the mountains of northern Utah, his first paintings were sketches of the American West inspired in part by his outlaw ancestry, The McCarty Gang, partners in crime with Butch Cassidy. Ray graduated from University with a degree in…
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Pascale Taurua, Ripped jeans 01 Paintings, The amorous game, Part 49 – With Footnotes
“As women, we know we want to be sexy. But is being sexy just about sex? Not really. It’s not even about how we walk or what we wear. It’s about our personality and how we say and do what we say and do.” Pascale Taurua Pascale Taurua , born in 1961 is a French painter elected…
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Evgeniy Monahov, Young wolves 01 Paintings, The amorous game, Part 47 – With Footnotes
Evgeniy Monahov was born in Moscow, Russia in 1974, and developed a love for painting at a very young age. In 1996 he completed the first stage of his formal studies by graduating from the Moscow College of Art. Demonstrating a unique talent and advanced artistic skills, Evgeniy was invited to enroll in the prestigious Surikov…
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Thomas Saliot, Lips and tongues 01 Paintings, The amorous game, Part 46 – With Footnotes
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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Pascale Taurua, Warm evening 01 Paintings, The amorous game, Part 45 – With Footnotes
Pascale Taurua , born in 1961 is a French painter elected Miss New Caledonia 1977 , then Miss France 1978 . She succeeds Veronica Bundle, Miss France 1977. She is the 48 th Miss France. A few months after her election, she prefers to return to New Caledonia rather than ensure her role as Miss France…
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Robert Mapplethorpe, Lisa Lyon 05 Works, The Art Of The Nude, Lisa Lyon, with footnotes # 6
The most-talked-about photographer of the 1980s, Robert Mapplethorpe was a belated classicist who understood how to present provocative themes in catchy visual images. After his photographic work with the New York leather scene, male nudes, and erotically-charged flower studies, Mapplethorpe turned his lens on the first female world champion in body-building. The resulting cycle is…
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01 Paintings, The amorous game, Part 44 – With Footnotes
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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