Michelangelo's suspiciously boyish Study of a Kneeling Nude Girl for The Entombment (Louvre, c. 1500), which is usually said to be the first nude
female figure study, predates this and is an example of how even figures who would be shown clothed in the final work were often worked out in nude studies, so that the form under the clothing was understood.
Not exact matches
It is noteworthy that the Mulford
study figures, cited above, showed that heavy drinkers were four times as prevalent among male as among
female drinkers.
And since
female scientists are married to professional men far more often than the reverse — according to a University of California, Berkeley,
study, the
figure for women was 61 % compared to just 27 % for men — those barriers disproportionately affect women.
In a second
study, the researchers investigated whether the long - held ideal
female figure of extreme thinness is also changing to include enhanced muscle tone.
«There is a shift in the thin ideal
female figure to one that now includes the appearance of physical fitness via muscularity,» says Bozsik, who explains that the results of the current
study further suggest that muscularity and thinness are becoming more ubiquitous among
female media
figures.
Quiz Ref IDOf all the 1303
studies included, 38.1 % (n = 497) reported data separately for male and
female participants, 33.1 % (n = 432) performed statistical analysis on data collected by sex, and Quiz Ref ID22.9 % (n = 299) of articles addressed sex - based results in the Discussion section (
Figure 2).
I am a single black full
figured female, 5» 6», going to school for behavior
studies.
These prior
studies tend to look at the dangerous
female figure as a cultural symptom, or as discrete manifestations of popular and genre cinema.
Hughes» novel is a brilliant mood piece as well as a psychologically acute
study of a misogynist, and it also features two strong
female characters, who
figure out that Dix is the killer.
An oft quoted
figure from this
study is that male dogs were six times more likely to bite than
female dogs.
Look out for luminous
female figures that melt into their surroundings by Hahn and somber
studies of faces and hands in muted colors by Ackroyd.
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.
Within that blurred faces, empty heads, absurd juxtapositions, minotaur - like
figures and muscular
female torsos are further deployed to subvert gender hierarchies and the fixity of meanings in a series of potent
studies.
He was a professional «penciller» and it is great fun to shuttle between the images of his commercial work in a catalogue and the life
studies that are among the most convincing works in the show, such as No. 386 (1959) and No. 3913 (1997), spanning decades of diligent attention to the
female figure.
However, in a later
study dating between 1960 - 1966, Diebenkorn shows an adept command of figuration through a seated
female figure casually poised with the studio articulated around her.
Featured in the Norton show, Marshall's «
Study for Untitled» (2014) is an ink drawing depicting a seated, bikini - clad
female figure gazing off into the distance.
In 1887 he completed a series of
studies of a group of nude
female figures known as the Bathers (Philadelphia Museum of Art).
Two prominent cases in point are Richard Prince's show at Gagosian Gallery and Cindy Sherman's at Metro Pictures, both a
study in how to demean their prominent
female figures.
This
study is as nerdy of a fantasy as some genius Don Juan trying to
figure out how to meet women using equations, based on very limited experience with highly variable
female psychology.