Sentences with phrase «nude female form»

Inspired by nutcrackers depicting female figures - and in particular one found on the internet of Hilary Clinton - these interactive sculptures embody the two polar stereotypes of female power; the idealized, sexualized nude female form and the too - powerful, nut - busting uberwoman.

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.

New York Magazine's The Cut explores questions surrounding the nude female form as a subject for male artists in an article titled «Who's Afraid of the Female Nude?»

Not too long after that, a fully nude female form appears onscreen, but not in the way one would expect.

Numerous YBA works have also employed a number of controversial references (such as Jenny Saville's paintings of grossly obese nude female forms, or the Chapman brothers» savagely mutilated shop - window dummies), in order to shock.

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Students should also look at how the way we have reproduced the female form through the ages from Antiquity to the 21st Century and think about the meaning of what it is to be nude and what it is to be naked.

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.

An amusing example of this taboo on confronting a dressed lady with a naked man is embodied in a group portrait of the members of the Royal Academy in London in 1772, represented by Zoffany as gathered in the life room before two nude male models: all the distinguished members are present with but one noteworthy exception — the single female member, the renowned Angelica Kauffmann, who, for propriety's sake, is merely present in effigy, in the form of a portrait hanging on the wall.

In lush evocations of the female form, such as Nude — Elbow on Knee (above), painted in 1961, he continued many of the pictorial innovations of his previous series, but set them within an intimate portrayal of the human figure.

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?

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.

One of the artist's most famous paintings, Large Reclining Nude, displays the daring scale, simplified forms, and bold, flat planes of colour with which the artist treated the female form in the 1930s.

Double exposure, solarization, combination printing, montage, rotations, and other forms of distortions were employed by the Surrealists to render their photographs of female nudes uncanny and dreamlike.

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.

For an artist who is well - known for nude self portraits like Brilliantly Endowed (Self - Portrait)(1977), the presentation of Sister Lucas shows that Hendricks also deeply considered the black female form — and that he sought to counter disempowering representations of black men and women and art's overwhelming championing of whiteness as the only celebration of corporeality, spirituality, and truth.

Continuing the long tradition of the female nude in art history, Bates» abstract rendition communicates the act of mark making and the artist's interaction with the material to release its form.

In his final years, Wesselmann returned to the female form in the «Sunset Nudes» series, where the compositions, abstract imagery, and sanguine moods recall the odalisques of Henri Matisse.

In lush evocations of the female form, such as Nude — Elbow on Knee, painted in 1961 ($ 800,000 - 1,200,000)-- he continued many of the pictorial innovations of the prior series but nestled them within an intimate portrayal of the human figure.

«I use male forms to examine object and subject of desire, in ways that have been primarily done with the female nude form.

Next to the female nude, the breathtakingly individual form of a living tree has impelled artists throughout the ages to TRY to reproduce their images.

With her sexual yet powerful portrayals of naked women, Thomas, a queer artist, subverts the trope of the «male gaze,» suggesting women too can gain pleasure from the female nude form.

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.

Los Angeles - based artist Amy Bessone mines the cultural representation of female form in history, from Greco - Roman marble nudes and the odalisques of high modernism to contemporary thrift - store objects.

The work consists of drawings, bronze sculptures, large scale embroideries, gouache paintings and neon works, mainly depicting the female nude form, in various compositions floating in front of an empty background.

His studies of human nature, most often in the form of the female nude, are rich with references — a floral headpiece, delicate compote, gilded frame remnants, a peacock feather, and soft textiles.

Feingold's subjects are mostly women as she seeks to capture the natural beauty of the female form, with a focus on bold feminine nudes referencing images from the French erotica era of the early 20th century, American vintage magazines from the 1970s and 1980s, and today's Internet imagery.

• 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.

Deianira Tolema: Often when we think of figurative art we think about the female nude, but your work is rather unique in how it centers around the male form.

The video depicts a gray - toned, three - dimensional rendering of what appears to be three nude female figures melding into a single conjoined form.

Schütte makes familiar forms of expression, like memorial portraiture and figurative sculpture, strange through evocative, often disturbing alterations, such as in his treatment of the female nude in his «Bronzefrauen» series (Bronze Women, 1999 - ongoing) where figurative shapes morph into abstract or mutant forms, or his «Alte Freunde» series, in which the subjects» despondent expressions highlight the vulnerability of the individual against the cruelty and complexity of the vast world.

Prince plays out — even satirises — the way the female nude is mapped and multiplied in art, from classical sculpture to Renaissance Venuses to the distorted and reconfigured forms of Cubism and Expressionism, as well as in other sources such as pornography and medical text books.

One Model, 10 Nudes: See How Different Artists Treated the Female Form at Will Cotton's Drawing Party Artnet News October 11, 2017

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.

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.

[28] Lisa Yuskavage's nude figures painted in a nearly academic manner constitute a «parody of art historical nudity and the male obsession with the female form as object».

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 understNude 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 understnude 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 understnude studies, so that the form under the clothing was understood.

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.

In his most famous series, Great American Nude, Wesselmann takes the classical nudes of Titian and the modern odalisques of Henri Matisse and Édouard Manet and lends the female form his own treatment.

Beauty queens, martini glasses, nude Hollywood starlets and hamburgers are given equal attention in Ramos» artistic universe; if Ramos has been criticized for commodifying the female form it must also be acknowledged that he eroticizes the commodity.