Tag: Skin
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01 Painting, The amorous game, Wilhelm Heinrich Schlesinger’s Spanish Farmers. Part 64 – With Footnotes
Henri-Guillaume Schlesinger, originally Wilhelm Heinrich Schlesinger (6 August 1814, Frankfurt am Main – 21 February 1893, Neuilly-sur-Seine) was a French portrait and genre painter of German birth. He was especially known for his lively and sensitive depictions of young women. He studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, and was originally active in that…
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01 Painting, The Art Of The Nude, Demetrio Salgado’s Female nude, with footnotes # 117
Demetrio Salgado, (1916–2000), was born in Salamanca. He moves to Madrid upon discovering his artistic vocation, settling in the traditional neighborhood of Lavapiés. He studied at the San Fernando High School in Madrid, where he shared classes and a close friendship with Pedro Mozos, Juan Alcalde and Juan Barjola, among others. In 1955 he was…
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01 Photograph, The Art Of The Nude, Frank Horvat’s Kristin, with footnotes # 116
Frank Horvat (born April 28, 1928) is a photographer who presently lives and works in France. He is best known for his fashion photography, published between the mid 1950s and the late 1980s, but his photographic opus includes photojournalism, portraiture, landscape, nature, and sculpture. In 1988, he produced a book of interviews with fellow photographers…
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01 Photograph, Germaine Krull’s Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 115
Germaine Luise Krull (20 November 1897 – 31 July 1985) made a name for herself in avant-garde photography in the period between the two World Wars. After attending photography school in Munich, she launched her career in Berlin, and later worked in Paris and Monte Carlo. During World War II, her leftist political beliefs led her…
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01 Painting, The amorous game, by Gaetano Bellei, Part 63 – With Footnotes
Gaetano Bellei was an Italian Academic Painter who was born in 1857. He later died in 1922 in the same city. He enhanced his artistic talent by learning art from Adeodato Malatesta and Comrade of John Muzzioli. When he was 24 year old, he won the Retired Potetti due which he was able to visit…
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02 Paintings, The Art Of The Nude, Edmond Aman-Jean’s Nude with rose, with footnotes # 167
Edmond Aman-Jean, pseudonym of Amand Edmond Jean, was born in Chevry-Cossigny November 13 , 18581 and died on January 25 , 1936 in Paris , was a painter , writer and art critic French. Edmond Aman-Jean was a student of Henri Lehmann of the School of Fine Arts in Paris and the classmate of Georges Seurat , with which he…
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02 Pictures of The amorous game by Michel Comte and Antoine Verglas, Part 6 – With Footnotes
Helena Christensen (born 25 December 1968) is a Danish fashion model and photographer. She is a former Victoria’s Secret Angel and beauty queen. Christensen has also served as creative director for Nylon magazine, designed clothing, and supported funding for breast cancer organizations and other charities. Helena was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, as the eldest of…
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01 Painting, The amorous game, Adam Styka’s THE LOVERS, Part 77 – With Footnotes
Adam Styka , born April 7, 1890 and died September 23, 1959 in Doylestown (Pennsylvania) , was born in Poland in 1890. He completed his formal education at the French Academy of Fine Arts, and painted closely under the tutelage of his father, Jan Styka. Each year Adam exhibited his paintings in the Paris’ Salon de Paris,…
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02 Photographs , The Art Of The Nude, by HELMUT NEWTON, , with footnotes # 114
During the 1980s, Newton completed his now internationally renowned ‘Naked & Dressed’ series, which he later described as the most technically difficult series of pictures he ever produced… Please follow link for full post
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01 Painting, The amorous game, Auguste Rodin’s TWO WOMEN EMBRACING, Part 65 – With Footnotes
The subject of Sapphic loves is very frequent in Rodin’s drawings, which often uses several models simultaneously. The impetuosity and the accuracy of the movement had to be captured instantly and then transferred to a new sheet, the artist used to trace his drawing on the first draft in order to achieve a new, refined…
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01 Photograph, The Art Of The Nude, Julius ANDRES’s NUDE WITH MESH NETTING, with footnotes # 103
Julius ANDRES (1905-1991) was born in 1905 and was primarily inspired by the 1920s growing up. The notable innovations established in the early years of the 20th century were developed further in the 1920s and 1930s. This period began the careers of many innovative and inspiring practitioners in the pictorial arts. However it was a time…
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01 Painting, The amorous game,Gunilla Mann’s Dancing couple – With Footnotes
Gunilla Mann, born in 1947 in Gothenburg , is a Swedish painter, artist, graphic artist and sculptor. Mann grew up in Majorna and Masthugget in Gothenburg. She studied at Handicraft Society School from 1962 to 1967 and at Hovedskou painting school from 1968 to 1972. Mann now divides her time between Österlen and Södermalm in Stockholm…
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01 Painting, of The amorous game, Filippo Indoni’s The distracted shepherd – With Footnotes #3A
Filippo Indoni, Italian (1800 – 1884). In a reaction against the frivolous and unrealistic images of early 19th century Romanticism, artists turned to less glamorous aspects of life and society in search of a direct experience. By 1850, they had formed a relatively cohesive movement that battled for popularity with Romanticism, a far more widespread…
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01 Photograph, The Art Of The Nude, by Andreas Gleich, with footnotes # 102
Close-up/nude shot of a woman wearing only a hat on her head. This hat is best suited for breaking light and creating shadows.Andreas Gleich; “At the age of 12, my parents gave me a simple Agfa camera with built-in lens for Christmas. I have been photographing since that time. In the 1980s I worked as…
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01 Painting, The amorous game, Cornelis Corneliszoon van Haarlem’s Monk and Nun, Part 66 – With Footnotes
According to legend a nun was accused of having become pregnant. To verify this a monk had to squeeze her breast and if it produced milk she was guilty. But instead of milk she produced wine — the reason for the wine glass on the table. Instead of proving the nun’s guilt the miracle was…
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01 Photograph, The Art Of The Nude, Carol Jerrems’ Vale Street, with footnotes # 153
A quintessential image of the 1970s, ‘Vale Street’ has lost none of its capacity to enchant and disturb in the intervening years. In one sense it can be read as a sociological document; in another as a wholly subjective work of art. Like the mediumistic spirit-photographs of the nineteenth century, Jerrems’s photo seems to disclose…
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19 Works, The Art Of The Nude by Norman Lindsay, with footnotes # 241
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… Please follow link for full post
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03 Works, The Art Of The Nude, Georgia O’Keeffe, with footnotes # 100
The romance between Alfred Stieglitz and Georgia O’Keeffe took on mythical dimensions. Stieglitz took revealing, nude portraits of O’Keeffe and put them on display at his gallery. The two became lovers, then, in 1924, man and wife. More on Alfred Stieglitz and Georgia O’Keeffe Please follow link for full post
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01 Painting, The amorous game, Part 78 – With Footnotes
Sir Anthony van Dyck, ( 22 March 1599 – 9 December 1641) was a Flemish Baroque artist who became the leading court painter in England, after enjoying great success in Italy and Flanders. He is most famous for his portraits of Charles I of England and his family and court, painted with a relaxed elegance that…
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