Hepworth Wakefield's new Calder space is given over to Youth series
featuring nude men sitting on found objects
The Tehran - born artist Tala Madani definitely made her mark at the Whitney Biennial with a series of paintings
featuring nude men beaming brightly covered lights out of their behinds.
Not exact matches
Back in the days when Mel Ramos could paint Chiquita Banana pinups, Tom Wesselmann could sex up his still lifes by putting sunburned
nudes with pubic hair into them, and Allen Jones could obnoxiously use a lifelike playmate on her knees as a coffee table, Marjorie Strider was making shaped canvases
featuring 3 - D breasts that were smartly violating the picture plane as if to one - up the
men, who never noticed.
Also
featured at the Throckmorton stand at AIPAD is Christian Cravo's Two Young
Men (Bahia), edition 1 of 10, (2003); Lucien Clergue's Zebra
Nude from 2007; a 1993 vintage gelatin print by Mario Cravo Neto, La Grima de Passaros, 1st edition; and a 1979 Marilyn Bridges vintage print of Yarn and Needle, Nazca, Peru.
Thomas Eakins used the photograph at bottom, one of a series of posed studies
featuring nude young
men playing outdoor sports, to develop his painting The Swimming Hole.