Sentences with phrase «female nude body»

The image of the female nude body itself is a representation of our own humanity, our own vulnerability, our need for a convincing metaphor for the missing naked truth, a remnant of sorts from classical academic training and faded humanistic values.

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Viewing any kind of nude images was also a thing of deep shame... though the female body was a wonder to behold and so naturally appealing to me.

Exploiting the female body is just fine, but showing a beautiful man almost completely nude is a disgrace.

Often and traditionally portrayed as nudes, the female body in photographs stands in stark contrast to the portrayal of men — often the ones taking the portraits — famous male photographers such a Weston, Steiglitz, Man Ray, etc, who commonly employed «the male gaze» approach.

Using International Klein Blue paint, Wagenknecht had Roombas trace her nude body on canvases, creating images of the female form that recall Klein's «nude paintbrush» works.

Since the late 1960s, Hammer has been investigating how one can represent lesbian sexuality and the female body, most famously in films like Dyketactics, whose opening sequence documents a group of nude women in the countryside.

While Edelson, Alexander, and Hershman Leeson focus largely on the female body, Graham Anderson's figurative paintings, which were on view at Klaus von Nichtssagend, dissolve the nude male into a decorative abstraction.

Samet writes: «Matter's insistence on the nude female body, and on still lifes of flowers, drapery, and skulls as the focus of observational painting — for herself and her students — can also feel problematically outdated.

The play of shadow and light across the contours of Lyon's body accentuates the musculature of her legs and arms and demonstrates Mapplethorpe's understanding of the cultural context of androgyny in the classical female nude.

White Cube, Bermondsey The body screams in Emin's latest show, which moves from crumbling, fleshy paint to tortured bronzes, and shakes the tradition of the female nude to the core.

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.

Her collaged photographs of female nudes and flowers were digitally printed onto dresses that in turn hid the wearer's nude body.

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?

Eventually he hit on an idea he called «Anthropometry», or using the bodies of nude female models, painted blue and laid on top of canvases.

The duplication and repetition of the female nude and the reclaiming of the depicted body — as can be seen in the artist's self - portraits — deconstruct the dominant rules of authorship: Axell switches sides and trades her role as muse for that of producer.

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

Ana Mendieta's «Untitled (Glass on Body Imprints)» from 1972 turns on its head the art tradition of men creating female nudes, and lets Mendieta depict herself, distorting her form with a pane of glass.

The works engage the psychological realm of attachment to the female body and how that's processed through both a traditional and a contemporary reading, as the many reclining, sitting or lounging female figures relate distantly to any number of female portraits (often reclining female nudes) painted throughout history.

An English artist celebrated in the 1990s for mammoth, fleshy nudes that fingered societal obsessions about plastic surgery, negative female body images, and excess chub, her work has since undergone a domestication that is as literal as it is, existentially, troubling.

Juxtaposing glamorous bodies with the seductive but hollow artifacts of American consumerism, Ramos is perhaps best known for his distinctive female nudes — stylish pin - up girls bedded on fruit or posing lasciviously with, or popping out of, larger - than - life consumer goods such as candy bars and soft drinks.

In this exhibition, Women: New (Re) Presentations, McGinness expands upon his ever - growing language of symbols with a concentrated yet expansive body of work based upon the traditional academic drawing of the female nude figure.

Yet, «nude» remains virtually synonymous with the female body.

Joan Semmel is best known for her ongoing series of almost photorealistic nude self - portraits — a repossession of the female body from the male gaze and a meditation on time and its effects.

A contemporary exhibition titled «In the Raw: The Female Gaze on the Nude» features 20 women artists framing the naked body with their cameras.

In her work she utilizes found images of her mother and incorporates the nude female body to try and recreate similar moments.

His focus on the male body also shifts the gaze away from the nude female form, which male painters have explored many times over throughout the history of western painting.

Extending Hepworth's central concern with the female body, both the stone and lignum figures envisage the seated nude as powerful and enclosing.

Pee Body (1992), for example, depicted a nude female figure in wax crouched on the floor relieving herself, urine trailing behind in the form of yellow beads.

Known for her explicit male nudes that quote and subvert the art historical tradition of male gaze onto female body, in her portraits feature artists, musicians and writers of both genders, dressed and naked, representing a pantheon of significant cultural figures.

This duality is not dissimilar from Schneemann's use of her body to challenge fixed notions of the female nude, representing herself as both image and image - maker.

A departure from the flashy red lips and shockingly tan bodies that have become the trademark of American Pop artist Tom Wesselmann, Monica Sitting Up Against a Wall reimagines a time - honored artistic tradition — the drawing of the female nude.

Often he squirted the pigment at his figures without touching a brush - «my tube is like a rocket, which describes its own space» - or laid it on thickly with a palette knife: Reclining Nude of 1966 (in a private collection) is less concerned with the female body than with the «tangible sensuous experience» of painting.

These books inevitably focus on the body, as so many art books do, and in particular on the female nude.

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.

In the Red Corset of Constraint, digital prints and historic paintings of the female nude are interlaced with an ad for a full body red corset from the 20th century.

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.

The traditionally fraught relationship between male artist and female model is evoked by video documentation of Yves Klein's mise en scène, Anthropométrie de l'époque bleue (Anthropometry of the Blue Period, 1960), which shows the artist directing female extras to execute imprints of their nude bodies.

Semmel's treatment of the figure — the gaze directed at either her own body or her lover's — was her challenge to the dominant patriarchal portrayal of the passive female nude.

Perhaps Botticelli wanted to distort the female figure in the same way Citarella manipulated his nude, producing and at the same time questioning the sensuality of the body.

Sherman's «exhibition within an exhibition» is a survey of works of the human body: Charles Ray's disturbingly oversized mannequin of a business woman, Duane Hanson's unnervingly lifelike polyvinyl sculpture of one of his neighbors, and John DeAndrea's oil - painted bronze cast of a classical female nude are but a few examples.

Turning the perspective of her compositions to her own body as subject, she began painting the nude female figure, shifting the point of view from outside of the canvas as the viewer, to a simultaneous observer and subject.

As early as 1949, just a year before his editorial images of the Paris couture collections would revise the visual aesthetics of fashion photography, Penn began what is considered perhaps his most personal but least well - known body of work: studies of tightly - framed, corpulent nudes that explore the beauty and physicality of the female form.

In the center, Brice's piece de resistance: the not - quite - nude female, completely comfortable in her own skin, not presenting her body so much as inhabiting it.

In Modular Nude (2011), a mysterious sculpture strategically obscures a female form, a subtle critique of the art historical precedent of using the female body as prop.

Featuring paintings, bronze sculptures, neon, embroidery and works on paper, «Stone Love,» which takes its title from David Bowie's love song Soul Love, explores the artist's intimate side via expressive depictions of female nudes modeled after both her own body and historical photographs.

On the occasion of her concurring performance - led exhibition at Zabludowicz Collection, London, and a profile that appears in the current issue of Kaleidoscope, New York - based American artist Donna Huanca will discuss her concern with the nude female body.