The phrase
"female nude" refers to a artwork or image that depicts a woman without any clothes on.
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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»).
For the Eight Statues exhibition at Gagosian Gallery in New York in 1994, Graham created a series of
female nudes in various poses.
At her best, however, the combo allows her the trendy topic of
female nude with a self - conscious nostalgia for art before Modernism.
The show features an installation of monochromes that derive their colors from paintings of
female nudes by the Impressionist trailblazer, Pierre - Auguste Renoir.
Apart from portrait paintings she also painted a number of
female nudes as well as several still - lifes of Calla lilies.
In her newest paintings, Angela Fraleigh reexamines the classical
female nudes from Baroque and Rococo paintings.
A much - anticipated look at one of the first feminist artists, best known for her iconic landscape photographs made in the early 1900s
depicting female nudes outdoors in rugged Northern California.This monumental...
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.
In one subtle but telling juxtaposition, an abstraction («Berkeley # 3») that might seem to invoke the layered mesa landscape Diebenkorn absorbed in Albuquerque, may in fact reveal its connections to a pair of
seated female nudes.
The Academy became a regulator of practice, but continued to
use female nude models in their life drawing lessons, and the success of artists such as Joshua Reynolds, David Wilkie, John Constable and William Etty has been attributed to this.
In her signature painted and photographic portraits of family, friends, lovers, and pop - culture icons, Thomas draws on and deconstructs 19th - and 20th - century traditions of portraiture, replacing the ubiquitous
white female nude with voluptuous African American women.
The American side includes Impressionist landscapes by Childe Hassam and Elmer McCrae, one of the original show's organizers, along with Arthur Davies and Walt Kuhn; a strikingly lifelike life -
size female nude by Robert Henri; and emulations of Cézanne and Matisse by Charles Sheeler, Marsden Hartley and Kuhn.
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.
For the magazine, Vanessa Beecroft created a life - size
female nude sculpture with hair made of pink - orange cotton candy and a body covered in marzipan and frosting.
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Her ceramics
feature female nudes with red - tipped breasts that poke out of the sculptures — urns that offer a feminist take on Bay Area funk (think Robert Arneson with two X chromosomes).
Some she presents with eyes closed, arms behind their heads, legs apart, mimicking a classic
female nude pose.
What's more, Petzel has been known to provide thrills in the summertime, like L.A. sculptor Liz Craft's life - size
bronze female nude with the head and tail of a fox and the many arms of Shiva.
The exhibition's title refers to a celebrated book of watercolors that he produced from 1974 to 1977, in which cool, blue marine land and seascapes transform into
warm female nudes.
Next to the text is an image of the Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres painting La Grande Odalisque, one of the most
famous female nudes in Western art history, with a gorilla head placed over the original face.
She certainly shares their concern about the sexualization of women in mass media, as is apparent from the many works here that
show female nudes being used to sell cameras.
A proudly declared fan of Egon Schiele and Francis Bacon, Tracey Emin returned to creating personal figurative paintings, usually of
female nudes based on her own body or on historical photographs.
At the time, he was creating prevalently images of popular superheroes and gradually started to
include female nudes emerging from bizarre objects, such as cornstalks, bananas, candy wrappers, martini glasses or famous cigar and cigarette brands such as Havana.
Untitled (Love Bather)(1917) places the bather on a rock in the ocean; Untitled (Night Allegory)(1915) sets two
female nudes who have seemingly unreadable poses on a beach.
After the heyday of Pop Art, Mr. Wesselmann continued to play variations on his themes of
stylized female nudes and domestic still lifes.
Marino Marini: Horses, Horsemen and
Female Nudes explores the main sculptural themes the artist concentrated on from the 1930s to the 1950s.
Often playing with images and materials associated with beauty and desire, Hamilton repeatedly uses sculptural cut - outs of film stills or women's legs made from transparent plastic and wooden shapes based on Modernist depictions of
female nudes such as the curvy abstracted figure found in her 2007 piece The Piano Lesson, based on Fernand Léger's 1921 painting Le Grand Déjeuner.
In this unmaking of the tradition of the
passive female nude, Benglis was working in dialogue with popular discourse about gender and gender performativity published at the time of its execution.
The perils soon became real when critic Brienne Walsh reviewed the show for Forbes: «Kurt Kauper's «Women» Attempts to Depict
Powerful Female Nudes, and Fails.»
In the early sixties, Philip Pearlstein — working in Brooklyn long before it was Brooklyn — painted
female nudes sitting on geometrically patterned carpets and chairs in pale rooms with a cold light.
Waclaw Wantuch is one of the most recognisable Polish
female nude photographers, known primarily for its exploration of geometric and abstract forms of feminine shapes, which he emphasized with studio lights and high contrast.
«In traditional painting, across the centuries of the nude, there's a particular kind of gaze that's implied between a male viewer and a to - some - degree objectified
female nude subject.
The voracious sexuality and hallmark stylization of Picasso's depictions of women are evoked by the abstract marks, speaking of a modernist painterly machismo, while the soft -
focus female nudes establish woman as anonymous muse, sexual object and aesthetic ideal.
Aristide Maillol (1861 - 1944) Best known for his large -
scale female nude sculpture, The Mediterranean.
Although the artist Peter Paul Rubens glorified
zaftig female nudes on his 17th - century canvases, such Rubenesque figures have definitely fallen from vogue.
Female nude mice (Harlan Laboratories) between 10 and 11 weeks of age (20g body weight) were housed in a climate - controlled environment with a 12 - h light / dark cycle and were fed standard laboratory diet with water ad libitum.
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(Louise Fletcher won the Best Actress Oscar ® for that role in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest) There are both male and
female nude scenes, but nothing you haven't seen before.
For centuries,
iconic female nudes were produced by male painters like Titian, Rubens, and Rembrandt.
In response to the overwhelming amount of
female nudes counted in the Modern Art sections, the poster asks, sarcastically, «Do women have to be naked to get into the Met.