Tag: Skin
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02 Photographs, The Art Of The Nude, BRUCE WEBER’s LISA MARIE, PALM BEACH, with footnotes # 173
Bruce Weber is an internationally renowned American fashion photographer best known for his racy, erotically charged imagery. Weber has shot the ad campaigns of Calvin Klein, Ralph Lauren, Pirelli, Abercrombie & Fitch, Revlon, and Gianni Versace, as well as his work for Vogue… Please follow link for full post
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01 Painting, The Art Of The Nude, Renato Guttuso’s Nudo, with footnotes # 171
Renato Guttuso (26 December 1912 – 18 January 1987) was an Italian painter. His best-known works include Flight from Etna (1938–39), Crucifixion (1941) and La Vucciria (1974). Guttuso also designed for the theatre and did illustrations for books. Those for Elizabeth David’s Italian Food (1954), introduced him to many in the English-speaking world. A fierce anti-Fascist,…
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01 painting, The amorous game, William Oxer’ s Love’s Fragility, with Footnotes, #88
William Joseph Oxer B.A. Hons. (Wrwk) F. R.S.A. is a passionate artist driven by traditional ideas of how beauty should be represented, William formed the intellectual basis to his work under the tutelage of Professor Regius Peter Davidson of Oxford University. After graduating, William was offered a place at the Prince of Wales’ Institute of Architecture but…
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01 Work, The Art Of The Nude, Alphonsine de Challié’s Young brunette woman with a pink veil at her toilet, with footnotes # 31
Alphonsine de Challie worked in the studio of Charles Joshua Chaplin and was a friend of Berthe Morisot. In 1875, Berthe Morisot painted the’ Woman with her toilet ‘which is today preserved at the Art Institute of Chicago. Is she undressing or getting ready? The same mystery surrounds this picture of Alphonsine Challie who was probably…
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01 painting, The amorous game, Otto Aguiar’s Miami Beach, With Footnotes, #87
The son of a highly respected Brazilian general, Otto de Souza Aguiar graduated with honors and was awarded a Master’s Degree in Graphic Art and Drawing from the University of Fine Arts in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. After teaching drawing and design to aspiring architects, Otto began the extensive travels through Europe that were his induction into…
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01 Photograph, The Art Of The Nude, Manuel Álvarez Bravo’s Fruta prohibida/ Forbidden Fruit, with footnotes # 170
Manuel Álvarez Bravo was a teenager when he first picked up a camera and began taking pictures, before he enrolled in night classes in painting at the Academia San Carlos, in 1917, or sought instruction in the darkroom of local German photographer Hugo Brehme. Initially self-taught, Álvarez Bravo’s style developed through study of foreign and local…
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06 Photographs, The Art Of The Nude, Manuel Alvarez Bravo’s La Desvendada/ The Unveiled, with footnotes # 168
Manuel Álvarez Bravo was a teenager when he first picked up a camera and began taking pictures, before he enrolled in night classes in painting at the Academia San Carlos, in 1917, or sought instruction in the darkroom of local German photographer Hugo Brehme. Initially self-taught, Álvarez Bravo’s style developed through study of foreign and…
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06 Works, The Art Of The Nude, Steve Hanks’ Morning Rituals, with footnotes # 165
Steve Hanks, 1949–2015, is recognized as one of the best watercolor artists today. The detail, color and realism of Steve Hanks’ paintings are unheard of in this difficult medium. Steve Hanks captures these patterns of life better than anyone. Steve Hanks was born into a military family in San Diego in 1949. His father was…
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01 Painting, The Art Of The Nude, James Gleeson’s Salvage from Random’s Effigy, with footnotes # 165
When James Gleeson first exhibited Salvage from Random’s Effigy, 1939 – 41 the Second World War had been raging for almost three years, eventually reaching Australian shores with the terrifying bombing of Darwin and the submarine attack on Sydney Harbour in February, then May of 1942. Gleeson and a number of his artist-associates had been…
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07 Paintings, Max Middleton, On the Beach with Hazel and Danielle, with footnotes # 163
Max Middleton enjoyed a long and highly acclaimed career as a professional artist, exhibiting in 68 exhibitions over 66 years. He died in 2013. Max had a great interest in the Australian landscape. As an en plein air painter, he faithfully rendered what he saw. He had an extraordinary ability to capture light on canvas……
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01 Painting, The Art Of The Nude, Harrington Mann’s Nude, with footnotes # 166
Harrington Mann (7 October 1864, Glasgow–28 February 1937, New York City) was a Scottish portrait artist and decorative painter. He was a member of the Glasgow Boys movement in the 1880s.Mann began his studies at the Glasgow School of Art. He then studied at the Slade School of Fine Art in London under professor Alphonse Legros.…
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01 Paintings, The amorous game, Thomas Saliot’s Lips and tongues, 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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01 painting, The amorous game, John Lewis Brown’s The charms of the grisette and the soldiers of the regiment, With Footnotes, #86
The word grisette has referred to a French working-class woman from the late 17th century and remained in common use through the Belle Époque era, albeit with some modifications to its meaning. It derives from gris (French for grey), and refers to the cheap grey fabric of the dresses these women originally wore. By the 1835 she…
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01 painting, The amorous game, Gurcharan Singh’s Saturday Night, With Footnotes, #85
Gurcharan Singh is an Indian painter, known for his figurative paintings.[1] He was born in 1949 at Patiala, in the Indian state of Punjab and studied at Government College of Arts and Crafts, Chandigarh.[2] He has had several and group exhibitions in India and abroad and his works were exhibited at the International Biennale in Tokyo…
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02 Paintings, The Art Of The Nude, Anwen Keeling’s Swathe and The Radiance, with footnotes # 161
Anwen Keeling (born in 1976) is an Australian portrait painter. Working primarily with oil paints, her artworks have often focused on introspective women in private settings. She has „always been influenced by Caravaggio.“ Her artworks prominently contain areas of deep shadows. Keeling was born in Sydney and received a Bachelor of Arts (Visual) with Honours (First…
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01 Painting, The Art Of The Nude, Unknown Artist’s A LONG-HAIRED NUDE, with footnotes # 159
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01 photograph, The amorous game, Sergii Mykhalkiv’s Boudery Fun # 11, With Footnotes, #82
Sergiy Mykhalkiv was born in 1975 in Lviv. He was teaching the art of photography in several photo schools. In 2017 he opened his own photo studio “RedLight”. Mykhalkiv was a two-time winner of the annual contest of the “Playboy” magazine, and winner of National Union of Photo Artists of Ukraine Contest “Photo Portrait” in…
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01 Painting, The Art Of The Nude, Cui Xiaodong’s Nude girl, with footnotes # 158
Cui Xiaodong was born in Qiqihar, Heilongjiang Province though his ancestral home was Yangzhou, Jiangsu Province. Cui Xiaodong graduated from the Department of Traditional Chinese Painting, CAFA in 1988 with a Master’s degree. Currently he is a professor of CAFA, Director of Yanhuang Art Museum. With a profound traditional foundation in painting, Cui Xiaodong’s landscape painting…
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01 painting, The amorous game, K S Karnataka’s Embrace, With Footnotes, #84
K S Kulkarni, (1918 – 1994) was born in Karnataka, Kulkarni studied at the Sir J.J. School of Art, Bombay. He had his first one-man show in 1945, organized by the All India Fine Arts and Crafts Society. In 1948 he founded the Triveni Kala Sangam where he served as Director of the Art Department until…
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06 Paintings, The Art Of The Nude, by Cui Xiaodong with footnotes # 157
Cui Xiaodong’s works are very pure oil paintings. The characteristics of oil paintings are fully exerted, and the interest of the shape and the expression of colors are combined very well. This kind of oil painting with traditional skills, the techniques are mastered so skillfully. Cui Xiaodong’s colors are thick, and his brushwork is delicate…
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