The most recognizable of the paintings depict
the nude human form, an ongoing motif in the artist's greater body of work.
Highlighting the dialectical relationship between anatomy and visual art, Greek artist Anastasia Mastrakouli used
the nude human form in various compositions to spell out the alphabet.
Not exact matches
Da Vinci's Vitruvian Man, that famous sepia sketch of a
nude, spread - eagled person touching a square and a circle with his extremities, asserted the eerie proportional coincidences of the ideal
human form (arm span = height; height = hand length x 10) but said nothing about the face.
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.
These become
human «
nudes» descending (or ascending) the minimalist stairs, their flesh tones and undulating
forms chiming with the anthropomorphic bombast of the larger structure.
A few years later, she enrolled at the Institute of Design and received her Master's degree in 1966 based on her series of abstract
nudes entitled «
Human Forms».
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.
The show will examine his understanding of
form and light in the composition of formal portraits, still lifes and figurative works that celebrate the sensual quality of nature and the
human body.The works relate strongly to the museum's permanent collection of fine art that includes portraits from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Dutch old master still lifes and studies of the
nude and
human figure, a staple of western art dating back to the classical
forms of Greek sculpture.
políticas da diversidade sexual na arte, CGAC — Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain sh [OUT]: Contemporary art and
human rights, GoMA — Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow, Scottland Fatal Attraction: Diana and Actaeon — The Forbidden Gaze, Compton Verney, Warwickshire, England The Fallen Angels, Watari — Um, Watari Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan Fotofiesta, Galleri S.E., Bergen, Norway Tresures of Gay Art, The Leslie / Lohman Gay Art Foundation, New York, NY, USA Costanti del classico nell» arte del XX e XXI secolo, Fondazione Puglisi Cosentino, Palazzo Valle Catania, Italy Nudes, Galeria Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo, Brasil This is Not a Fashion Photograph: Selections from the ICP Collection, ICP — International Center of Photography, New York, NY, USA Body Image: American Art and the Human Form, Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, MI
human rights, GoMA — Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow, Scottland Fatal Attraction: Diana and Actaeon — The Forbidden Gaze, Compton Verney, Warwickshire, England The Fallen Angels, Watari — Um, Watari Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan Fotofiesta, Galleri S.E., Bergen, Norway Tresures of Gay Art, The Leslie / Lohman Gay Art Foundation, New York, NY, USA Costanti del classico nell» arte del XX e XXI secolo, Fondazione Puglisi Cosentino, Palazzo Valle Catania, Italy
Nudes, Galeria Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo, Brasil This is Not a Fashion Photograph: Selections from the ICP Collection, ICP — International Center of Photography, New York, NY, USA Body Image: American Art and the
Human Form, Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, MI
Human Form, Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, MI, USA
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.
On view will be a video from 1978, dozens of painted chairs, and a large series of recent works on mylar, including a 10 - foot tall image of a man proudly sporting an enormous penis and a triptych depicting three crouching,
nude, spread - legged women, all painted in Applebroog's signature style of simplified
human forms with bold outlines.
The life - sized carved marble depiction of a male
nude lying prone on a fur - lined sleeping bag, Boyfriend (2006), juxtaposes the exposed
human and animal
forms, a result which is both inviting and foreboding.
Human Sculptures Our abstract people sculptures and tasteful nudes convey the beauty of the human
Human Sculptures Our abstract people sculptures and tasteful
nudes convey the beauty of the
human human form.