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Actor, Ciccio Ingrassia, commissioned
a nude portrait in 1976.
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His
portraits, groups and
nudes, are elegantly rendered examples of classic photography
in purist form.
His work shocked contemporaries and often sparked outrage — the flagrant Blue
Nude, a provocative, perverse
portrait of Amélie reclining
in the garden sunlight was misunderstood and received by critics like a physical assault on the senses, language Matisse used himself to explain his almost violent process.
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.
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.
Then there are the superb images by South African photographer Zanele Muholi, a gay woman
in a country that's still worryingly hostile to the LGBTQ community: as recently as 2009 the country's then Minister of Arts and Culture Lulu Xingwana described Muholi's
portraits of
nude lesbian couples as «immoral» and «against nation - building.»
In the introduction Haynes writes: «For her new exhibition... Semmel has created 12 large paintings, many of which have two layers, each with a
nude self -
portrait.
In the 1970s, Neel began to paint
portraits of her extended family as well as a major series of
nudes.
In 1975, he acquired a Hasselblad medium - format camera and, working primarily in the studio, began producing large - scale still lifes (of subjects such as lilies and skulls), interiors, nudes, portraits and self - portrait
In 1975, he acquired a Hasselblad medium - format camera and, working primarily
in the studio, began producing large - scale still lifes (of subjects such as lilies and skulls), interiors, nudes, portraits and self - portrait
in the studio, began producing large - scale still lifes (of subjects such as lilies and skulls), interiors,
nudes,
portraits and self -
portraits.
Even more unsettling is the self -
portrait of Alice Neel, eighty years old and totally
nude — and surprisingly defiant
in its quirkiness and sensuality.
In his life - sized self -
portrait, «Brown Sugar Vine» (1970), Hendricks appears
nude, wearing sunglasses and a stocking cap, artfully confronting and subverting American stereotypes about black male sexuality by claiming ownership of it.
He also made self -
portraits, sometimes
in the
nude.
The first major survey of Rivers» work
in New York
in over a decade, the exhibition includes Rivers» famous
nude portrait of Frank O'Hara
in boots, and highlights the artist's strong interest
in appropriation as well as the broad range of inventive methods and materials he employed over the course of his career.
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.
The works at the Chrystie Street space are all drawings, inky
nude self -
portraits of Ms. Emin sitting
in a chair.
The show is divided into seven sections, including
portraits of artists (Alice Neel's 1970 painting of Andy Warhol after he was shot
in an assassination attempt, a collection favorite, for example), street life
portraits,
nudes,
portraits of the famous, and so on.
Alfred Leslie sought to maximize psychological impact
in enormous
portraits of
nude and nearly
nude women.
Monographs of his work include: Irving Penn (1984); Irving Penn: Master Images (1990); Irving Penn: A Career
in Photography (1997); Dancer (2001); Earthly Bodies: Irving Penn's
Nudes, 1949 - 50 (2002); Irving Penn: Platinum Prints (2005); Irving Penn: Small Trades (2009); Irving Penn:
Portraits (2010); Irving Penn: Archæology (2010); Irving Penn: Cigarettes (2012); and Irving Penn: Cranium Architecture (2013).
In his 2010 painting Not Yet Titled Condo alludes to group portraits by Goya and to Manet's Le déjeuner sur l'herbe (1863), with cavorting nudes and men primly dressed in satin smoking jacket
In his 2010 painting Not Yet Titled Condo alludes to group
portraits by Goya and to Manet's Le déjeuner sur l'herbe (1863), with cavorting
nudes and men primly dressed
in satin smoking jacket
in satin smoking jackets.
This was established with their first purchase, Pierre Bonnard's Standing
Nude Looking
in Mirror, and continued as the collection grew to include works such as Edgar Degas's Dancer with Arm Too Far behind Head and Adolph Gottlieb's
Portrait of Marcus Rothkowitz — a pencil portrait of his colleague Mark
Portrait of Marcus Rothkowitz — a pencil
portrait of his colleague Mark
portrait of his colleague Mark Rothko.
But whereas the work of those artists achieves a meaningful dissonance through a sundry aggregation of disjunctive motifs, Picabia's layered images serve to reinforce one another within each painting, coalescing
in their signification into a unified expression or theme:
in one case it is the seductive menace of his
Portrait of Kiki (ca. 1938 - 40), a demimonde figure painted
in lurid yellows and greens with a spider form imposed over her face;
in another it is the cheesy eroticism of Reve (ca. 1935), an image of a sleeping woman about to be kissed imposed over a
nude standing (like Botticelli's Venus, but with arms upraised) on the surface of the waves.
And
in this show — the first solo exhibition Tate Modern has ever held for the Spanish master — those voluptuous stretches of flesh appear everywhere, from reclining
nudes to
portraits of a woman seated
in a chair.
Their experimentation included closely cropped
portraits, abstract still lifes, and
nudes and bathers
in landscape settings.
While Edouard's work
in watercolor and oils of landscapes, cityscapes,
nudes, still lifes,
portraits, and allegorical subjects ranged from Impressionism and Post Impressionism to semi-abstraction, Luvena's
portraits and still lifes
in oils hewed closer to Realism.
She has also published several volumes of poetry, including «
Portrait of a
Nude Woman as Cleopatra,» which won the Carl Sandburg Award for Poetry
in 1988.
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.
Cesarine founded The Untitled Space
in 2014,
in part to «emphasize contemporary female artists and bring more awareness to feminist art,» putting up exhibitions like an «all - female, all -
nude» art show and a group show of 21 woman artists creating self -
portraits.
In these works, Baselitz revisits an early double - portrait of himself and his wife Elke, from 1975 entitled Bedroom, reinterpreting the image using recent polaroids of himself and Elke nude, sitting in a similar position as Dix's parent
In these works, Baselitz revisits an early double -
portrait of himself and his wife Elke, from 1975 entitled Bedroom, reinterpreting the image using recent polaroids of himself and Elke
nude, sitting
in a similar position as Dix's parent
in a similar position as Dix's parents.
In reality, some of Neel's most recognizable pictures are well known because they express a kind of loving cruelty — the humiliating yet awed portrayal of Warhol and his corseted stomach, or her
nude self -
portrait that scandalized so many upon its debut.
Her experimental assemblage paintings that incorporated objects began an inquiry into psychological content that she further extended
in self -
portraits and a long - running series of solitary female
nudes.
A little less on - the - nose were her
portraits of
nude men seemingly trapped
in clear plastic bags.
The Irving Penn exhibition offers a comprehensive vision of the range of genres he worked
in: fashion, still life,
portraits,
nudes, beauty, cigarettes and debris.
With a
nude self -
portrait currently on show
in our From Life exhibition, Chantal Joffe discusses her models, inspiration and artistic process with the show's curator, Adrian Locke.
Semmel has continued to paint
nude self -
portraits in the 2000s and 2010s.
This substantial Ruff overview accompanies a major retrospective survey at the Whitechapel Gallery
in London, and contains all of his most renowned series, including
portraits, disasters, sky and cityscapes, internet
nudes, photograms, manga images, magnetically generated images and found press photographs.
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 powerful works, including unabashed
nudes, self -
portraits, and dense woodland scenes, honor the simple nature of being and
in the process transcend the ordinary.
In between, we discover paintings on canvas and ink drawings of larger - than - life heads, full - length
nudes, Ms. Dumas's daughter as a young child, raunchy strippers, political commentary, and more, from early experiments with a variety of conceptually based approaches to an idiosyncratic, continuing series of
portraits of «Great Men.»
Although Baselitz has always worked with specific imagery (
portraits,
nudes, animals, landscape), he professes equal interest
in pure painting -
in problems of shape, color and line.
The exhibition will consist of approximately twenty works
in oil, watercolor, pastel, and sumi ink and depict the subjects for which the artist is well known:
portraits, still lifes, landscapes, and
nudes.
The X, Y, and Z Portfolios (published
in 1978, 1978, and 1981, respectively) by American photographer Robert Mapplethorpe (1946 — 1989) summarize Mapplethorpe's ambitions as a fine - art photographer and contemporary artist, reflecting the tripartite division of his mature work: homosexual sadomasochistic imagery (X); floral still lifes (Y); and
nude portraits of African - American men (Z).
Man Ray's famous muse Kiki also posed
nude for Foujita in the 1920s, with the resulting portrait, Reclining Nude with Toile de Jouy being the sensation of the Paris Salon d'Automne in 1922, as well as earning Foujita more than 8,000 fra
nude for Foujita
in the 1920s, with the resulting
portrait, Reclining
Nude with Toile de Jouy being the sensation of the Paris Salon d'Automne in 1922, as well as earning Foujita more than 8,000 fra
Nude with Toile de Jouy being the sensation of the Paris Salon d'Automne
in 1922, as well as earning Foujita more than 8,000 francs.
In another series, she collaged images of her
nude body onto someone else's
portrait.
Manipulation of the negative, retouching, cropping, enlarging and light drawing are some of the techniques he used to achieve the fresh form he sought
in his still lifes, landscapes,
nudes and
portraits.
Under the Skin features a selection of Emin's intimately - scaled monoprints and watercolors, including self -
portraits that portray the figure
in the classical reclining
nude pose.
One edition is titled, Queer as a Clockwork Orange (
portraits of notable GLBTIQ New Yorkers
in handmade sets fashioned after drawings
in Stanley Kubrick's film A Clockwork Orange) and the other edition of photographs is titled, My Something (
nudes).
The post-internet-heavy exhibition featured Huxtable's own self -
portraits (featuring the artist
in head - to - toe body paint and set against surrealist Teletubby landscapes
in shades of pastel) and Frank Benson's 3D - printed sculptural rendering of her
nude body, cast
in a futuristic, metallic sheen.