In this video, Thomas incorporates her own
reclined nude body; she rehearses the very act of painting and stretches the boundaries of art history itself.
Not exact matches
In Texas, Larry the Leopard Man
reclines nude on a couch, showing the bluish leopard spots tattooed across nearly every inch of his
body.
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.
Wagenknecht's latest
body of work puts a new spin on Klein's act, laying her own
nude body on blank canvases while a Roomba saturated with IKB shuffles around her, creating a confused pattern of blue streaks outlining the large patches of blankness where she
reclined.
However, Brown's chaotic,
reclining nude takes from de Kooning's work the sense of forms appearing within abstraction, and it is oddly exhilarating to watch the faces and
bodies of cats emerge and recede in the painting as one looks at it.
Often he squirted the pigment at his figures without touching a brush - «my tube is like a rocket, which describes its own space» - or laid it on thickly with a palette knife:
Reclining Nude of 1966 (in a private collection) is less concerned with the female
body than with the «tangible sensuous experience» of painting.
Works like
Reclining Nude (1927) by Morris Kantor make it easy to image the
body of any person becoming the mountains and valleys in any American landscape, just in a different color.