Sentences with phrase «by nude female»

These large - scale paintings were made by nude female models, directed by Klein, carefully applying paint to the canvas with their bodies.

Walter is represented by the nude females in this series, and the mythical minotaur is used as a proxy for Picasso himself.

Not exact matches

McLaughlin's final months in the Assembly were dogged by the revelation that he had used abusive language against a female aide, and he was sanctioned by the chamber's ethics committee — after election day — for allegedly asking another lawmaker's aide for nude photos.

The Ethics Committee also finds that Assembly Member McLaughlin did, in fact, violate the Policy by making offensive comments to a female Assembly employee by asking her for nude photos.»

Jennifer Lawrence said she was «degraded and humiliated» by nude line - up request from female producer

An amusing example of this taboo on confronting a dressed lady with a naked man is embodied in a group portrait of the members of the Royal Academy in London in 1772, represented by Zoffany as gathered in the life room before two nude male models: all the distinguished members are present with but one noteworthy exception — the single female member, the renowned Angelica Kauffmann, who, for propriety's sake, is merely present in effigy, in the form of a portrait hanging on the wall.

For centuries, iconic female nudes were produced by male painters like Titian, Rubens, and Rembrandt.

«Seated Female Nude,» possibly Anna Akhmatova by Amedeo Modigliani, c. 1911.

A glance at three recent works by Kate Davis (b. 1977) from a numbered series Disgrace appear to have pencil scrawls on pages of an art catalogue featuring nude studies of the female figure.

First held at the Galerie Internationale d'Art Contemporain in Paris in 1960, Klein's performances (now considered by many to be outrageously sexist) featured nude female models — who the artist referred to as «human paintbrushes» — rolling themselves in his patented International Klein Blue paint.

Two of the most striking; paintings on display in London now are by women firmly seizing the traditional male territory of the female nude.

It assembled stills from a performance where Davis drew her body over projections of female nude drawings by Modigliani, as a recording of how a present body interacts with female representations in art history.

At this space, the figure of a female nude tied to what looks like a torture device is the disturbing central image of a nine - panel 1975 painting called «Moving Through» by the American artist Juanita McNeely.

In the Raw: The Female Gaze on the Nude was co-curated by feminist artists Coco Dolle and Indira Cesarine.

Several works from the 20th century close the exhibition: three masterly drawings by the young Pablo Picasso, Two Fashionable Women (1900), a blue - period Head of a Woman (c. 1903), and a cubist Standing Nude (summer 1910); an imposing study of a female nude by Georges Braque (1927); and three drawings by Louise Bourgeois, including M is for Mother (1998), a drawing of a large, red letter M that conveys not only maternal comfort but also maternal contNude (summer 1910); an imposing study of a female nude by Georges Braque (1927); and three drawings by Louise Bourgeois, including M is for Mother (1998), a drawing of a large, red letter M that conveys not only maternal comfort but also maternal contnude by Georges Braque (1927); and three drawings by Louise Bourgeois, including M is for Mother (1998), a drawing of a large, red letter M that conveys not only maternal comfort but also maternal control.

He creates otherworldly and surreal encounters by a female nude with Cattelan's art, has Gilbert & George awkwardly interacting in their would - be home with an androgynous male model, and places Harland Miller's large - scale paintings of book covers into actual book covers held by 50's pin - ups.

Her dreamy, finely woven narratives often feature female protagonists — nude women hooked up to IVs of orange juice mingle in a garden; a morose woman carries groceries; a naked, blindfolded blonde spreads her legs atop a pool table — most of which are inspired by personal experiences.

«I wouldn't like to stereotype and say that all male artists who do female nudes are sexually motivated, but traditionally the female nude by the male artist was an object of desire.

An upcoming show at Untitled Space challenges that unfair truth by presenting the work of 20 female artists depicting the female nude in an empowered, autonomous, and non-sexualized way.

It has cast light on a wealth of female artists who have been denied their due, and has also shown that history has an ingenious knack for writing us out: denied access to the male nude, her anatomical skill was found to be lacking; sponsored by the court, her work has remained in private ownership and lacks proven market value, etc..

Art for every body on display at Color of Energy gallery By Brittany Erwin Photo: Parrish's untitled nude figure calls viewers to confront the female form Is the ideal female body tall and long - limbed?

Alison Saar hangs a female nude by her ankles, as the victim of a lynching, for Strange Fruit.

Images such as nudes dr02 (2011) become painterly illustrations of vague desire in which anonymous women sport and pose, their erotic power modified by a muted palette and hazed resolution, while in nudes ar09 (2011) the fetishistic power of the female subject is all but reduced to lush formal qualities — a cascade of thick blonde hair, the curve of pink thighs, the glossy black of a stiletto heel.

Nature served as the inspiration for his sculptural works and his output was devoted to lyrical works of reclining female nudes and elegant stone faces and torsos influenced by Greek classicism as well as sculpture from Asia, the Pacific, and Africa.

The subject of Christopher Brown's new multipanel paintings is a wooded landscape, crossed by a river, and sometimes including a nude female figure.

Double exposure, solarization, combination printing, montage, rotations, and other forms of distortions were employed by the Surrealists to render their photographs of female nudes uncanny and dreamlike.

Judith Linhares» oil paintings of dreamy female nudes are also intensely colored, but they relate in an unexpected and intimate way to a pair of black and white photographs by Rory Mulligan showing a torso of a woman and the back of a man gazing at a night sky.

Throughout the history of art, the female nude been an object of desire created by and for men for the pleasure of selling, owning, and beholding.

Photographs range broadly from the classic (Berenice Abbott, Ansel Adams, Ruth Bernhard, Imogen Cunningham, Alfred Stieglitz, Robert Mapplethorpe, Edward Weston) to the pioneering (an oddly humorous series of female nudes in motion by Eadweard Muybridge) to the buoyantly inventive (Dieter Appelt's image of a man breathing on a mirror) and the downright comically weird (Joel Sternfeld's 1982 «Exhausted Renegade Elephant, Woodland, Washington»).

RECLINING IN THE NUDE or posed upright on sofas, Mickalene Thomas «s female subjects are always surrounded by a dynamic mix of patterned textiles.

The gallery is showing a solo booth by the Israeli artist Lili Cohen Prah - ya including a selection of delicate illustrations of sensitively drawn female nudes on gold tissue paper.

The show features an installation of monochromes that derive their colors from paintings of female nudes by the Impressionist trailblazer, Pierre - Auguste Renoir.

Subverting this familiar image, Yinka has replaced the female nude by a photograph of a well - endowed male.

This double - sided sheet, authenticated by the Fondation Giacometti, presents studies of four heads on the recto and a standing female nude on the verso.

Her most celebrated work began to emerge around 1970 when, motivated by feminist art principles, she produced a series of paintings which featured male nudes alluding directly to canonical female nudes, for example those of Ingres, Titian and Velázquez.

Intended by the artist as both a «playful piece» as well as a serious comment on male patriarchy, within this beautifully constructed kaleidoscope Shonibare has subverted the familiar image of Botticelli's THE BIRTH OF VENUS by replacing the female nude with a photograph of a well - endowed naked male.

Lord Leighton, P.R.A. (1830 - 1896), Study of a standing female nude, probably for «Venus and Cupid» (crop), Probably by ca. 1856.

From the 1970s Araki began to earn rave reviews for photos showing extraordinary intimacy with his female subjects, and went on to establish a unique photographic realm suffused with the air of Eros and Thanatos (sex and death) exuded by subjects ranging from voluptuous blooms to bondage nudes, skyscapes, food, Tokyo street scenes, and his pet cat.

Currin's female nudes, with their distorted breasts and necks, reference both soft - porn fantasy and Italian Mannerism, a style that itself was considered by earlier Renaissance artists to be in dubious taste.

Surrounded by his drying canvases, he would ask a young nude female model to remain with him in the studio, not necessarily to paint her in a particular pose as Matisse or Bonnard might have done (he was wary of the anecdotal side of a pose and tried to avoid it as much as he could), but for a sheer physical presence next to him while he was painting, and for its influence on his perception of his subject.

Organized by the Kunsthalle Bielefeld in Germany, Donald Judd: Early Work, 1950 - 1968, opens with a painting of a female nude dated 1950.

In two versions of a nude crouching by pond, one has a Giotto - style face, the other the relatively enlarged eye - and - nose that Picasso liked to give his female sitters.

Tom Wesselmann is represented by a still life of products and objects found in many American homes, alongside paintings of stereotypical female nudes that border on abstraction.

Inspired by masters such as Marino Marini and Henry Moore, Caroline d'Andlau's work comprises original linear bronze female nudes, animals and figured groupings, the latter including Massai warriors.

She is in the pose of a concubine in a harem popularized in the renderings of female nudes by the early 19th - century French artist, Jean Auguste Dominque Ingres.

It's instructive to compare the brittle landscapes of the American Impressionist Childe Hassam to monumental works by van Gogh and Cezanne; or Matisse's restless odalisque, «Blue Nude,» to a static female portrait by the celebrated American academician Robert Henri.

There does seem to be some recalibration toward valuing the female gaze, based on the careers of those four, not to mention the high prices recently paid for nudes by artists like Mickalene Thomas, Jenny Saville, Lisa Yuskavage, and Ghada Amer.

The recurring formula of the reclining female nude is reprised and subverted in works by Sarah Lucas and Urs Fischer.

The work in this section, though, is patchy: a painting of a female nude by Francis Gruber, in the Sainsbury Centre's collection, is memorably awful.

Angela Fraleigh's newest work reconsiders the classic female nude by taking figures from Baroque and Rococo paintings and reexamining their surroundings, attire and gaze.