Not exact matches
Throughout the 80s, Mapplethorpe
produced a bevy of
images that simultaneously challenge and adhere to classical aesthetic standards: stylized compositions of male and female
nudes, delicate flower still lifes, and studio portraits of artists and celebrities, to name a few of his preferred genres.
In the early 1950s, when Rauschenberg was living with artist Susan Weil in a one - room apartment on West 95th Street in Manhattan, they
produced a series of cyanotypes —
images produced without a camera, by shining an ultraviolet light on an object or
nude model resting on blueprint paper, exposing the paper where the light isn't blocked and creating a negative shadow of the object or model's outline, similar to the way an X-ray is done.
In 2003 Ruff
produced the first
nudes, culling
images from Internet pornography, then digitally processing them — enlarging them as far as possible — so as to cloud the crude clarity of the original
images.
This slim, beautifully
produced, bright yellow linen - bound exhibition catalogue with tipped - on cover
image features some of the most strangely arresting male
nudes on canvas today.