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Barlow stressed the exhibition would not be saying gay artists only made works that reflected their same - sex desire, but it would be showing works engaging with those issues — for example, Duncan Grant's 1911 homoerotic painting Bathing, a gorgeous panorama of seven muscular male nudes painted as part of a decorative scheme for Borough Polytechnic at the Elephant and Castle in London.

Not exact matches

Just as nude women's bodies are painted in the shape their clothing gave them, rather than the shape their bodies actually took when undressed, so too the infants may be painted in the shape swaddling bands or boards would have given them.

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The tabloids: The appearance of all - but - nude body - painted babes in sanitized Times Square — once home to strictly family friendly characters like anti-Semitic Elmos and cop - punching Spider - Men — gave editors of the city's scandal sheets the opportunity to plaster their pages with sexy pics and indignant headlines, engaging in what one Observer contributor described as the unbeatable paper - selling combo of «simultaneous shaming and titillating.»

It is nowhere near as agitated, though, as the homeless guy who catches sight of Murphy's helmet — which has a nude showgirl painted on it — while we're stopped at a red light.

Sources close to The Buzz have revealed that Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto was recently spotted at a Modern Art exhibit which included several paintings, referred to as «classic nude studies», that focused on salacious adult oriented content.

Back in the days when Mel Ramos could paint Chiquita Banana pinups, Tom Wesselmann could sex up his still lifes by putting sunburned nudes with pubic hair into them, and Allen Jones could obnoxiously use a lifelike playmate on her knees as a coffee table, Marjorie Strider was making shaped canvases featuring 3 - D breasts that were smartly violating the picture plane as if to one - up the men, who never noticed.

Before I started working this way, I was painting nudes, and most of my work still begins that way, with a nude figure that I «dress» as the piece develops, usually according to whatever I feel that subject would wear.

Samet writes: «Matter's insistence on the nude female body, and on still lifes of flowers, drapery, and skulls as the focus of observational painting — for herself and her students — can also feel problematically outdated.

In the 1970s, Neel began to paint portraits of her extended family as well as a major series of nudes.

As with Manet's matadors or Matisse's dancers — or more recently, the paintings of one of Berkenblit's close contemporaries, Carroll Dunham, known for his idiosyncratic color palette, horses, and nudes — the things in Berkenblit's paintings seem to be malleable and evocative receptacles of color and texture.

This is just another term for a realistic work (as opposed to a work featuring a figure which is variously known as a nude, life painting or figure painting, a life drawing or figure drawing, or if they are clothed, a costume painting, costume drawing or portrait if a personality is the center of focus.)

Those curved areas may look back to Henri Matisse as well, pressed against a painting's edge like the leg and torso of a grand nude — even as that very edge takes on a touch of bare canvas that seems to change its dimensions and to divide a painting into two slightly misaligned panels.

Joan Semmel's Erotic Series (or «fuck paintings») of the 1970s, subsequent nude self - portraits, and recent unflinching depictions of her aging body establish her as one of the most important feminist painters of her generation.

The European installation culminates in a display of the paintings that provoked the most bewilderment and notoriety in 1913: Cubist works by Picabia and Gleizes, along with Duchamp's «Nude Descending a Staircase (No. 2),» which prompted its famous description by one critic as «an explosion in a shingle factory.»

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.

For instance, as of 1972, he works on a series of prints inspired by famous nude paintings and prints by artists such as Willem de Kooning and Amedeo Modigliani.

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.

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.

In contrast, Hiroshi Sugimoto's seascapes, a continuing project begun in 1980, are masterpieces of cool understatement and timeless, elemental intensity, as North Pacific Ocean, Ohkurosaki, 2002, lucidly demonstrates.The exhibition features two seascapes by Max Ernst, Gulfstream and Horizon, both executed in 1926, and two seashore nudes by Pablo Picasso, Baigneur et baigneuses, 1920 - 21, and Les trois baigneuses, 1932, painted at the Château de Boisgeloup, which Picasso had bought in 1930.

Furthermore, late Picabia has become implicated in our revisionist ideas of postwar European art as a whole, for it turns out that his «Transparencies,» not to mention his cheesy nudes and heavily impastoed»50s dot paintings, were scrutinized by the young Sigmar Polke as he began to deal, in the early»60s, with picture - postcard imagery and hackneyed abstraction.

The Colour Charts are the first paintings in Richter's career in which colour appears, with the exception of Ema (Nude on a Staircase), 1966, a work that was produced as a response to Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase (No. 2) of 1912.

Alongside the exhibition, pioneering works by Gerhard Richter from the collection of the Museum Ludwig are being presented, including icons such as Ema (Nude on a Staircase) from 1966, 48 Portraits of German intellectual figures from 1971/72, the abstract painting War from 1981, and the glass work 11 Panes from 2003, among others.

Both known for their particular drawing and painting styles, as well as controversial for their very sexually explicit nudes, they were friends and...

Taking The Painting Ball (48 Abstract, 42 Landscapes, 23 Still Lives, 11 Portraits, 2 Religious, 1 Nude) as a point of departure, this exhibition is Saban's first solo museum survey to consider the artist's expansive scope of work developed over the past ten years.

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.

It took eight nude dancers to make a spectacle of themselves along with sausages, wet paint, and raw chickens, as Meat Joy in 1964.

Benefits Supervisor Resting is regarded as Freud's ultimate tour de force, a life - size masterwork in the grand historical tradition of the female nude, painted obsessively with intense scrutiny and abiding truth.

She is best known for painting large scale, realistic nudes of her own body as seen from her perspective looking down.

Work from the art gallery's rich permanent collection will also be on display as part of the exhibition including 20th century naked portraits from Stanley Spencer's painting of his second wife Nude, Portrait of Patricia Preece (1935) to John Coplan's photographic Self Portrait Upside Down (1992).

Reinterpreting the Otto Dix image using recent polaroids of himself and Elke nude, sitting in a similar position as Dix's parents, the artist painted the figures using predominantly black and white palette and addressed the powerful themes of his celebrated «Avignon» canvases exhibited at the 2015 Venice Biennale.

Collecting Matisse and Modern Masters includes iconic paintings by Matisse such as Standing Odalisque Reflected in a Mirror (1923), Interior, Flowers and Parakeets (1924), Large Reclining Nude (1935), and Striped Robe, Fruit, and Anemones (1940).

Edouard Manet and Pablo Picasso surely had it in mind when they painted the nude as a hooker, with the viewer a less than dignified customer.

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.»

And to be fair, Greenberg was not altogether a strict adherent to his own orthodoxy, showing during his lifetime a great fondness for representational works such as the nude paintings of Horacio Torres and the landscapes of Canada's Dorothy Knowles, Patricia Service and Ernest Lindner.)

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.

His paintings of nudes, skulls, and still - lifes, along with images of centaurs and muses, place Lüpertz among such diverse artists as Nicolas Poussin, Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, and Hans von Marées as he continues to reinvent classicism and engage with tradition.

Perez has painted nude women for nearly as long as he has painted buildings, however, and when understood in the larger context of his work, these figures serve as a kind of foil to the muscle and desire treated in his pictures of buildings.

The works engage the psychological realm of attachment to the female body and how that's processed through both a traditional and a contemporary reading, as the many reclining, sitting or lounging female figures relate distantly to any number of female portraits (often reclining female nudes) painted throughout history.

Artistically promiscuous, Harvey's work has ranged from highly worked figurative paintings to vital, impastoed oils of nudes delineated by black lines known as his «Readers Wives», playful politicised sculptures as well as a powerful mosaic image of Margaret Thatcher.

An expert on 20th - century American art, he is the author of The Nude in American Painting, 1950 — 1980, Pop Art, and H. C. Westermann at War: Art and Manhood in Cold War America, as well as essays in American Art, Art Bulletin, and Art Journal.

For MATRIX 270, Neri contributes a new series of ceramic sculptures that upend traditional representations of the female nude, while McCarthy includes a new group of paintings that explore her characteristic motifs such as grid weavings, double rainbows, and colored bars.

As a coda to this narrative, the exhibition includes Pearlstein's most recent paintings, a series of three canvases completed in early 2015: nude female figures are animated with vibrant animal masks as they lounge and recline over Navaho rugAs a coda to this narrative, the exhibition includes Pearlstein's most recent paintings, a series of three canvases completed in early 2015: nude female figures are animated with vibrant animal masks as they lounge and recline over Navaho rugas they lounge and recline over Navaho rugs.

And, of course, Moss has also «inspired» Gary Hume to portray her with an empty silver face, Marc Quinn to depict her doing yoga, looking like some mythological goddess, and Lucian Freud to paint her as a reclining nude when she was pregnant.

Often playing with images and materials associated with beauty and desire, Hamilton repeatedly uses sculptural cut - outs of film stills or women's legs made from transparent plastic and wooden shapes based on Modernist depictions of female nudes such as the curvy abstracted figure found in her 2007 piece The Piano Lesson, based on Fernand Léger's 1921 painting Le Grand Déjeuner.

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.

In the painting, two nude men stand next to one another against a green - and - blue background as each holds an unfolded centerfold that depicts two women baring it all in a Playboy or Penthouse - type magazine.

Mao Yan's paintings exhibit tropes of portraiture such as the seated nude and oval frames, but cede deliberate representation to style and mood.

Lot 4, John Currin's delectable painting of two nude women touching each other uncertainly (as if they needed a man to tell them what to do), was consigned by Los Angeles collector Dean Valentine.

His nudes, on the other hand, reveal echoes of the past, as can be seen in the small series made in 1997 which comes back to life in the rectangular outlines of a canvas and in the change of technique to oil painting.