Sentences with phrase «first nude female»

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.

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He has used three principal models throughout his career: his wife Julia, who first posed for him in 1959; Juliet Yardley Mills («J.Y.M.»), a professional model whom he met in 1957; and his close friend Estella (Stella) West («E.O.W.»), the model for most of his nudes and female heads prior to 1973.

The original was the first full - sized female nude statue.

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.

Today, she is recognised as being among the first female artists to paint a nude self - portrait and, later, a series of self - portraits while she was pregnant — subjects which are taken up in the Joffe paintings on show.

This circa 1800 painting will go down in history as «the first totally profane life - size female nude in Western art — thought to be at least one of the first explicit depictions of female pubic hair.

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...

100 years ago Dame Laura Knight was one of the earliest female artists to depict the female nude and then in 1936 the first woman to be elected to the Royal Academy.

Still, John Currin and Lisa Yuskavage made portraiture the talk of a Whitney Biennial first, thanks to their more skilled, hard - edged drawing, historically informed styles, and nudes that flouted or mocked ideals of female beauty.

Indeed, alike women artists pertaining to the first wave of feminism - the era of Judy Chicago's iconic ceramic dinner - Christabel turns to a typically «feminine» craft outside of patriarchal mediums — quilting — as a visual language and aptly to express the female nude.

• Katarzyna Kobro (1898 - 1951) Considered to be the most outstanding female Polish sculptor of the first half of the 20th century, she is best known for her early Cubist - style nudes and abstract kinetic forms hanging in space.

She is noted, first and foremost for her figure painting and classical - style figure drawing of large - scale obese female nudes, characterized by their extreme physicality.

Instead of seeing Czanne's «The Bather» first thing when you enter the second - floor galleries, where «People» unfolds, you see an expansively open space with only two works: Aristide Maillol's luxuriant cast - lead female nude, «The River» (1938 - 1943), and beyond it, Barnett Newman's abstract painting, «Vir Heroicus Sublimis» (1950 - 51).

Katarzyna Kobro (1898 - 1951) Regarded as one of the most outstanding female Polish sculptors of the first half of the 20th century, she is is noted for her early Cubist nude studies and abstract kinetic forms hanging in space.

In her first major museum show, «Origin of the Universe,» at the Brooklyn Museum, Thomas takes on the trope of the female nude in art history, tackling race, gender, sexuality, and constructions of beauty.