Tag: Women
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01 Painting, The Art Of The Nude, Leon Kroll’s Reclining Nude, with footnotes # 139
Leon Kroll (December 6, 1884 – October 25, 1974) was an American painter and lithographer. Known as a figurative artist, Life Magazine described him as “the dean of U.S. nude painters,” yet he was an exceptional landscape painter and also produced an exceptional body of still life compositions. He studied at the Art Students League of…
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01 Photograph, The Art Of The Nude, Ruth Bernhard’s Detail; Transparent, with footnotes # 137
Ruth Bernhard, American photographer (born Oct. 14, 1905, Berlin, Ger.—died Dec. 18, 2006, San Francisco, Calif.), celebrated the female form with her light-infused black-and-white nudes, which were distinctive for their clarity and carefully wrought details. Bernhard’s career took a pivotal turn after a chance meeting with photographer Edward Weston, who became her mentor. She joined…
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01 Photograph, The Art Of The Nude, Lidia Wylangowska’s Eva, with footnotes #141
Lidia Wylangowska: “My art tells my story. It’s a story of my world, of my thoughts and emotions entwined in an internal dialogue. And some of it can be expressed only through painting. It is incredible, how fairy-tales I heard once-upon-a-time, in my childhood actually influenced my life and defined who I am. The technique…
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03 Photographs, The Art Of The Nude, by Fabio Cabral, with footnotes # 136
Fabio Cabral was born in Rio de Janeiro, 1958. He is a freelance Photographer and Film Director that has been working with digital and traditional techniques since 1982. He has given up his work as a medical doctor due to a strong desire to work with arts. His work focuses predominantly on: fiction — advertisement and fashion,…
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04 Photographs, The Art Of The Nude, Peter Beard’s Janice Dickinson in Kenya, with footnotes # 135
Janice Doreen Dickinson (born February 16, 1955) is an American model, author, actress, television personality, and talent agent. Initially notable as a model, she has been disputably described by herself and others as the first supermodel. One of the most successful models of the 1970s and 1980s, she also served as a judge on four…
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01 Painting, The Art Of The Nude, Tom Wesselman’s Monica Sitting with Mondrian, with footnotes # 133
Mondrian refers to the artist whose painting is shown behind the model. Wesselmann’s most famous series, “Great American Nude” (1961–73), channels the brazen energy of American advertising and features flat, faceless female figures whom the artist often situated among stars and stripes. More on this painting The artist always refrains from developing the facial features of the…
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01 Photograph, The Art Of The Nude, Ruth Bernhard’s Knees and Arms, with footnotes # 130
Ruth Bernhard, American photographer (born Oct. 14, 1905, Berlin, Ger. — died Dec. 18, 2006, San Francisco, Calif.), celebrated the female form with her light-infused black-and-white nudes, which were distinctive for their clarity and carefully wrought details. Bernhard’s career took a pivotal turn after a chance meeting with photographer Edward Weston, who became her mentor. She joined…
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01 Photograph, The Art Of The Nude, Greg Gorman’s Sisters, with footnotes # 138
Greg Gorman, born in Kansas City in the US in 1949. Gorman is an American portrait photographer of Hollywood celebrities. His work has been seen in national magazine features and covers, including Esquire, GQ, Interview, Life, Vogue, Newsweek, Rolling Stone, Time, Vanity Fair, and the London Sunday Times. Although he studied photojournalism in college, his…
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01 Painting, The Art Of The Nude, DORA L. WILSON’s Nude with Pomegranates, with footnotes # 132
Dora Lynnell Wilson (31 August 1883–21 November 1946) was a British-born Australian artist, Wilson was educated at Somerset School and Methodist Ladies’ College in Melbourne. From 1901–1906 she studied at the National Gallery. Wilson was best known for her etchings, pastels and oils of still lifes and nudes. Her work was praised for her ‘strong…
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01 Painting, The Art Of The Nude, Marcos Grigorian’s Nude Woman, with footnotes # 131
Marcos Grigorian (December 5, 1925 – August 27, 2007) was a notable Iranian-Armenian artist and a pioneer of Iranian modern art. Grigorian and his Armenian family immigrated to Iran from Russia in 1930. He studied at the Kamāl-al-Molk Art School in Tehran from 1948 to 1950. After graduating he moved to Rome, where he received a…
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01 Painting, The Art Of The Nude, Tom Wesselmann’s an american portrait, with footnotes # 128
Tom Wesselmann (1931–2004) was one of the leading American Pop artists of the 1960s. Departing from Abstract Expressionism, he explored classical representations of the nude, still life, and landscape, while incorporating everyday objects and advertising ephemera. Wesselmann was drafted into the US Army in 1952, two years into the Korean War. During his military service, he…
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01 work, The Art Of The Nude, Louis Anquetin’s FEMMES À LEUR TOILETTE, #244
Louis Anquetin (26 January 1861 – 19 August 1932) was a French painter; born in Étrépagny, France and educated at the Lycée Pierre Corneille in Rouen. In 1882 he came to Paris and began studying art at Léon Bonnat’s studio, where he met Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. The two artists later moved to the studio of Fernand…
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03 Paintings, The Art Of The Nude, by Pegah Samaie, with footnotes # 126
Pegah Samaie is an American-Iranian artist who was born and grew up in Tehran, Iran. Pegah’s art moves through the shadow of her past life. She uses art as a tool to face the experiences she and other women have encountered in a culture dominated by patriarchal governments and households. Her early experiences in Iran…
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01 Painting, The Art Of The Nude, Steven DaLuz’s Blue Nude, with footnotes # 127
Steven DaLuz (born 1953) is a contemporary American Neoluminist artist known for using chemically induced patinas on metal leaf and mixed media to produce figurative works and imagined landscapes often reflecting upon the sublime as a pictorial theme. DaLuz’s works have been published in art periodicals. Considered “ethereal and transcendent”, his artwork has been said…
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01 Painting, The Art Of The Nude, Matthew James Collins’ Allegory: Persephone, with footnotes #125
Persephone (aka Kore) was the Greek goddess of vegetation, especially grain, and the wife of Hades, with whom she rules the Underworld. An important element of the Eleusinian Mysteries and the Thesmophoria festival, the goddess was worshipped throughout the Greek world and frequently appeared in all forms of Greek art. More on PersephoneMatthew James Collins was born in…
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01 Painting, The Art Of The Nude, Anne-Christine Roda’s Lola, with footnotes # 121
Anne-Christine Roda creates portraits that can be qualified as hyperrealistic, thus close to a photographic approach, while revealing with a singular acuity, by the material for example, the profound being of the one who poses. Her favourite subjects: portraits and nudes and sometimes scenes of life. She is not satisfied by just rendering the appearance of…
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01 Photograph, The Art Of The Nude, Helmut Newton’s The Naked Truth, with footnotes # 120
Helmut Newton was born on October 31, 1920, in Berlin, Germany. He attended the American School in Berlin. From an early age, Newton developed a keen obsession with photography, purchasing his very first camera aged 12. Four years later, Newton was to turn his back on mainstream education, taking an apprenticeship with renowned German photographer,…
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01 Painting, The Art Of The Nude, Charles H. Freeth’s Female Nude, with footnotes # 119
Unfortunately, I have no information about this artist at this time! Please visit my other blogs: Art Collector, Mythology, Marine Art, Portrait of a Lady, The Orientalist, Art of the Nude and The Canals of Venice, Middle East Artists, 365 Saints and 365 Days, also visit my Boards on Pinterest Images are copyright of their…
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01 Painting, The Art Of The Nude, Charles Knight’s SEATED FEMALE NUDE, with footnotes # 118
Charles Knight (1901-1990) was a highly respected topographical landscape painter, and an important figure in Brighton School of Art over many decades. He attended Brighton School of Art (1919-23) where he was particularly influenced by painter Louis Ginnett and architect John Denman. Having obtained his Diploma in 1923 he studied at the Royal Academy (RA) Schools.…
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01 Painting, The Art Of The Nude, Francesco Musso’s Muse, with footnotes # 117
Francesco Musso was born March 19, 1942 in Caltagirone, Sicily; a graduate and Professor of Fine Arts from the University of Palermo, renowned Italian painter and sculptor, has received over his long and brilliant career, the admiration of figures such as the first Italian Minister Giulio Andreotti for his works in terra cotta for the…
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