Often based on porn images found in magazines from the 1960s, such as Playboy and Easy Riders, the eroticism of
his nude female subjects is underscored by the raw, carnal energy of his brushwork.
His works feature
nude female subjects in mostly indoor, object - filled environments.
Not exact matches
Furthermore, she often tackled
subjects that were perceived as «risky» during her lifetime: Neel is known for painting gay people long before homosexuality was legalised, transvestites, members of the poor, immigrant communities in Spanish Harlem (where she lived), candid portraits of nursing and pregnant women as well as unflinching male and
female nudes.
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?&ra
nude female form as a subject for male artists in an article titled «Who's Afraid of the Female Nude?&
female form as a
subject for male artists in an article titled «Who's Afraid of the
Female Nude?&
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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.
Favorite
subjects were mundane activities of everyday life but also looked to traditional genres such as portraiture, the
female nude and the landscape as a way to subvert expectations through outrageous depictions.
Images such as
nudes dr02 (2011) become painterly illustrations of vague desire in which anonymous women sport and pose, their erotic power modified by a muted palette and hazed resolution, while in
nudes ar09 (2011) the fetishistic power of the
female subject is all but reduced to lush formal qualities — a cascade of thick blonde hair, the curve of pink thighs, the glossy black of a stiletto heel.
The
subject of Christopher Brown's new multipanel paintings is a wooded landscape, crossed by a river, and sometimes including a
nude female figure.
RECLINING IN THE
NUDE or posed upright on sofas, Mickalene Thomas «s
female subjects are always surrounded by a dynamic mix of patterned textiles.
The principal
subjects were ballet dancers and
female nudes, jockeys and racehorses, landscapes and portraits, which he depicted in ever new variations and combinations.
She was particularly well known for her explicit paintings of male
nudes, which challenged the tradition of male artists painting
female subjects as objects of desire.
The
female nude was often a primary
subject for the artist as were children.
Wesselmann was then passionately devoted to two
subjects: the new abstract format, and his long standing interest in the
female nudes.
In her male
nudes, the
subject «is used as a vehicle to express erotic feelings, just as male artists have always used the
female nude» [10] In works such as Paul Rosano Reclining (1974) and Imperial Nude: Paul Rosano (1975), Sleigh portrayed her male subjects in stereotypical female poses in order to comment on past biases in which male artist have depicted sexualized female nu
nude» [10] In works such as Paul Rosano Reclining (1974) and Imperial
Nude: Paul Rosano (1975), Sleigh portrayed her male subjects in stereotypical female poses in order to comment on past biases in which male artist have depicted sexualized female nu
Nude: Paul Rosano (1975), Sleigh portrayed her male
subjects in stereotypical
female poses in order to comment on past biases in which male artist have depicted sexualized
female nudes.
«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.
«I use male forms to examine object and
subject of desire, in ways that have been primarily done with the
female nude form.
From the 1970s Araki began to earn rave reviews for photos showing extraordinary intimacy with his
female subjects, and went on to establish a unique photographic realm suffused with the air of Eros and Thanatos (sex and death) exuded by
subjects ranging from voluptuous blooms to bondage
nudes, skyscapes, food, Tokyo street scenes, and his pet cat.
Surrounded by his drying canvases, he would ask a young
nude female model to remain with him in the studio, not necessarily to paint her in a particular pose as Matisse or Bonnard might have done (he was wary of the anecdotal side of a pose and tried to avoid it as much as he could), but for a sheer physical presence next to him while he was painting, and for its influence on his perception of his
subject.
Perhaps to come across as the anti-Currin or the un-Balthus, Mr. Bryan concentrates on two of painting's oldest
subjects, the
female nude and the still life, the latter using only vases and jugs.
His favorite
subjects were mundane activities of everyday life — taking the subway, bicycling in the countryside — but he also tackled traditional genres such as the portrait, the
female nude, and the landscape, in which he could better subvert expectations with his outrageous depictions.
This was probably intentional, as Villalongo is seeking to reframe art history and Western art by using black women as the
subject, instead of the pervading white
female nude.
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.
But more than her proficiency with paint, I felt that she was doing something bold and direct with her
subject matter, the
female nude.
Lichtenstein continued to refine his technique and expand his
subject matter in his later work, turning to such unexpected themes as mirrors, abstraction, the
female nude, and landscape painting in the Chinese style.
He waved through every
female nude - but every male
nude became the
subject of discussion, and several were vetoed.
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.
On view are «Large Dark Figure» (1962 — 63), a shadowy, abstract painting, and «Two Sisters» (1976), a highly realistic work of two
female nudes, both of which reveal the range of her exploration into how best to capture her
subjects.
· Key paintings of the
female nude by Marguerite Zorach, illustrating both her early Fauvist adoption of the
subject to express the joys and energies of nature and later use of it to suggest women's ambiguous position in American society of the 1920s.
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.
Sylvia Sleigh (1910 - 2010) was a figure in the feminist art movement of the 1970s who is best known for turning portraiture and art history on its head as she reversed traditional sex roles in her paintings, casting her husband and their friends and associates as male
nudes that recalled the
female subjects often found in paintings by Titian or Ingres.
«In the Raw: The
Female Gaze on the Nude» is a group show of female artists working with the subject of the female
Female Gaze on the
Nude» is a group show of female artists working with the subject of the female n
Nude» is a group show of
female artists working with the subject of the female
female artists working with the
subject of the
femalefemale nudenude.
Both painters shared a preference for the same range of
subjects: interiors, still lifes, landscapes and the
female nude.
His
subjects are often drawn from his environment or are people he knows or admires: birch forests, self - portraits, a lone figure in a pastoral English landscape, and his wife as a reclining
female nude.