favorite nudes

Joyce Tenneson was an American photographer known for her distinctive style of photography, which often involved nude or semi-nude women.



Balthazar Klossowski de Rola was an esteemed Polish/French modern artist whose work was ultimately anti-modern.
Balthus' style is primarily classical and academic. Though his technique and compositions were inspired by pre-renaissance painters, there are also eerie intimations reminiscent of contemporary surrealists like de Chirico.



Aldo Palazzolo DELIRIUM
Self-taught Sicilian photographer.




Agnolo di Cosimo Bronzino was an Italian Mannerist painter from Florence.

Terry Gilliam from British comedy group Monty Python famously used Cupid's right foot from Venus, Cupid, Folly and Time for crushing down the titles on Monty Python's Flying Circus.




Edvard Munch was a Norwegian Symbolist painter, printmaker, and an important forerunner of Expressionistic art.
The Frieze of Life themes recur throughout Munch's work, in paintings such as The Sick Child (1886, portrait of his deceased sister Sophie), Vampire (1893–94), Ashes (1894), and The Bridge. The latter shows limp figures with featureless or hidden faces, over which loom the threatening shapes of heavy trees and brooding houses. Munch portrayed women either as frail, innocent sufferers or as lurid, life-devouring vampires. Munch analysts say this reflects his sexual anxieties.



Man Ray was an American artist who spent most of his career in Paris, France. Perhaps best described simply as a modernist, he was a significant contributor to both the Dada and Surrealist movements, although his ties to each were informal. Best known in the art world for his avant-garde photography, Man Ray produced major works in a variety of media and considered himself a painter above all.





John De Andrea is an US-American artist.
He is a representative of hyperrealism, and specialized in document, frequently Liebespaare, which life near he arranges from polyester, glass-fiber reinforced plastic, shedding hurrying and painting.

(Hyperrealism (also: Superrealism) is a art trend, which covers painting and sculpture, in addition, photography and film. Hyper+realistically above all North American artists at the beginning of the 70's worked. The current is neighbouring with the Pop kind. Their ideal is not necessarily an accurate life-faithful reproduction, but a photo-realistic exaggeration of the reality, abstraction is rejected. In demarcation to photo realism hyperrealism asks the question about the nature of the things to profanely exaggerated reality in the representation coolly, into a nearly already ironical, existentialistischen context, while photo realism by the brilliante, realistic representation to be above all beautiful wants.)




Jenny Saville is a contemporary English painter and one of the Young British Artists (YBAs). She is known for her monumental images of obese women, usually using herself as the model.
Her paintings are usually much larger than life size. They are strongly pigmented and give a highly sensual impression of the surface of the skin as well as the mass of the body. She sometimes adds marks onto the body, such as white "target" rings.




French painter.
The work of Jean Rustin is characterized by contrast seizing between two periods. The first period appears by a merry abstraction, very coloured which was success. He breaks with this abstraction for a figuration revealing a dark universe, near to the madness. The painter continues this research with the feeling to have found his true identity there.
The work of the French painter Jean Rustin is relatively little known.

Link to interview with Jean Rustin::
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/1980866.stm




Francisco José de Goya was a Spanish painter and printmaker.
Two of Goya's best known paintings are The Nude Maja (La Maja desnuda) and The Clothed Maja. They depict the same woman in the same pose, naked and clothed, respectively. He painted La Maja Vestida after outrage in Spanish society over the previous Desnuda. No wonder; without a pretense to allegorical or mythological meaning, the painting was "the first totally profane life-size female nude in Western art". He refused to paint clothes on her, and instead created a new painting.




Unknown to my knowledge.
Photograph by Hanna Rikkonen
Yet, definitelly one of the 21st century aphroditas.




Tamara de Lempicka is noted Art Deco painter.
Famous for her beauty, she was bisexual, and her affairs with both men and women were carried out in ways that were scandalous at the time. She often used formal and narrative elements in her portraits and nude studies to produce overpowering effects of desire and seduction.







Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres was a French Neoclassical painter.

From the first, his paintings are characterized by a firmness of outline reflecting his conviction that "drawing is the probity of art", and that "drawing makes up three quarters and a half of what constitutes painting."




Rebecca Horn is a German installation artist most famous for her body modifications such as Einhorn (Unicorn), a body-suit with a very large horn projecting vertically from the headpiece.

(Installation art is art that uses sculptural materials and other media to modify the way we experience a particular space. Installation art is not necessarily confined to gallery spaces and can refer to any material intervention in everyday public or private spaces.
Installation art incorporates almost any media to create a visceral and/or conceptual experience in a particular environment. Materials used in contemporary installation art range from everyday and natural materials to new media such as video, sound, performance, computers and the internet. Some installations are site-specific in that they are designed to only exist in the space for which they were created.)




John Maler Collier was a British writer and painter in the Pre-Raphaelite style.




Richter is considered by some critics as one of the most important German artists of the post-World War II period.

Many of Richter's paintings are made in a multi-step process of representations. He starts with a photograph, which he has found or taken himself, and projects it onto his canvas, where he traces it for exact form. Taking his color palette from the photograph, he paints to replicate the look of the original picture.




Egon Schiele was an Austrian painter, a protege of Gustav Klimt, and a major figurative painter of the early 20th century. Due to the highly-charged nature of his drawings and paintings and his premature death, Schiele has come to epitomise the popular image of the tourtured artist.

(The Tortured artist is astock character and stereotype, who is in constant ferment due to frustrations with art and other people. The tortured artist feels alienated and misunderstood due to what they perceive as the ignorance or neglect of others who do not understand them, and the things they feel are important. They sometimes use drogs, experience sexual frustration, and appear overwhelmed by their own emotions and inner conflicts. The tortured artist is often mocked in popular culture for being attention seeking, narcissistic, or just adverse to happiness.)




An important contributor to British Pop Art of the 1960s.
David Hockney has often been regarded as a playboy of the art world.

favorite nudes II

robert gregory griffeth, untitled



Guido Reni SUICIDE OF LUCRETIA
Guido Reni was a prominent Italian painter of high-Baroque style.



titian venus of urbino
Tiziano Vecelli or Vecellio, better known as Titian, was the leader of the 16th-century Venetian school of the Italian Renaissance.
The color titian is derived from the artist's frequent use of brownish orange, especially for the hair of his early idealized portraits of courtesans.



thomas eakins reclining male nude
Thomas Cowperthwaite Eakins was a painter, photographer, sculptor, and fine arts educator. He was one of the greatest American painters of his time, an innovating teacher, and an uncompromising realist.



Otto Griebel DIE NACKTE NUTTE
Otto Griebel (German artist) was one of the less well-known artists of the Weimar Era. Like his more famous contemporaries George Grosz and Otto Dix, he was principally committed to social and political subjects. He was, however, less an overt propagandist that a social commentator who chronicled the vices and corruption that he saw around him with scant sympathy.



Alexandre Cabanel NYMPH AND SATYR

Alexandre Cabanel was a French painter.
Cabanel was born in Montpellier, Hérault. He painted historical, classical and religious subjects in the academic style. He was also well-known as a portrait painter. According to Diccionario Enciclopedico Salvat, Cabanel is the best representative of the L'art pompier and Napoleon II preferred painter.



andre kertesz distortion no 6

André Kertész was a Hungarian-born photographer distinguished by haunting composition in his photographs and by his early efforts in developing the photo essay.



Auguste Rodin DANAIDE
Auguste Rodin was a French artist, most famous as a sculptor, but also a painter and printmaker.
Known for his love affairs and his interest in the sensual, Rodin was a short, stocky, and bearded man, sometimes referred to as a "brute". Very devoted to his craft, he worked constantly, but not feverishly. Though he has been stereotyped as temperamental and loquacious— especially in his later years—he has also been described as possessing a silent strength, and during his first appearances at Parisian salons, he seemed shy.

Rodin was a naturalist, less concerned with monumental expression than with character and emotion. Departing with centuries of tradition, he turned away from the abstraction and idealism of the Greeks, and the decorative beauty of the Baroque and neo-Baroque movements. His sculpture emphasized the individual and the concreteness of flesh, and suggested emotion through detailed, textured surfaces, and the interplay of light and shadow. To a greater degree than his contemporaries, Rodin believed that an individual's character was revealed by his physical features.



Jan van Eyck EVE
Jan van Eyck or Johannes de Eyck was a 15th century Flemish painter and is considered one of the great painters of the late Middle Ages.




olsson pale nude (??)



DOROTHEA TANNING leonorf
Dorothea Tanning is an American painter, printmaker, sculptor and writer. She has also designed sets and costumes for ballet and theatre.
Born in Galesburg, Illinois, Tanning lived in Paris for twenty-eight years. She met the German painter Max Ernst in 1942 and married him four years later. He introduced her to the circle of the Surrealists. Her most well-known work, Eine kleine Nachtmusik (a dark painting laden with symbolism; ironically named after Mozart's light-hearted serenade), shows that she became a member of that group for a while, but later her painting style changed to Impressionism.



bellocq nude with mask
Pierre Camille Lucien Hilaire Jean Bellocq is an American artist and horse racing cartoonist known as "Peb".



Bernini APOLLO AND DAPHNE detail
Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini was a pre-eminent Baroque sculptor and architect of 17th century Rome.



William-Adolphe Bouguereau THE BIRTH OF VENUS

William-Adolphe Bouguereau was a French academic painter.
(Academic art is a style of painting and sculpture produced under the influence of European academies or universities. Specifically, academic art is the art and artists influenced by the standards of the French Académie des beaux-arts, which practiced under the movements of Neoclassicism and Romanticism.



Masters of the Fontainebleau School GABRIELLE D'ESTREE AND THE DUCHESSE DE VILLARS

The Ecole de Fontainebleau refers to two periods of artistic production in France during the late Renaissance centered around the royal Château of Fontainebleau.
The works of this "first school of Fontainebleau" are characterized by the extensive use of stucco (moldings and picture frames) and frescos, and an elaborate (and often mysterious) system of allegories and mythological iconography. Renaissance decorative motifs such as grotesques, strapwork and putti are common, as well as a certain degree of eroticism.



Michelangelo Buonarroti DYING SLAVE

Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni was an Italian Renaissance painter, sculptor, architect, poet and engineer.
Michelangelo, who was often arrogant with others and constantly dissatisfied with himself, saw art as originating from inner inspiration and from culture. In contradiction to the ideas of his rival, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo saw nature as an enemy that had to be overcome. The figures that he created are forceful and dynamic; each in its own space apart from the outside world.
Fundamental to Michelangelo's art is his love of male beauty, which attracted him both aesthetically and emotionally. In part, this was an expression of the Renaissance idealization of masculinity.

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