Although each work is an independent work of art, the various images relate to each other stylistically and the long wall seems to narrate a story: demure charcoal drawings of
reclining nude female figures and black and white portraits of dogs are being juxtaposed with Shishkin's colourful and richly patterned paintings.
Not exact matches
Modigliani's
Reclining Nude holds the auction world record at # 113 million; the
female record is # 28.8 million, for Georgia O'Keeffe's Jimson Weed, White Flower No. 1.
One of the artist's most famous paintings, Large
Reclining Nude, displays the daring scale, simplified forms, and bold, flat planes of colour with which the artist treated the
female form in the 1930s.
Nature served as the inspiration for his sculptural works and his output was devoted to lyrical works of
reclining female nudes and elegant stone faces and torsos influenced by Greek classicism as well as sculpture from Asia, the Pacific, and Africa.
In Service de Luxe, Brown depicts a
reclining female nude.
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.
RECLINING IN THE
NUDE or posed upright on sofas, Mickalene Thomas «s
female subjects are always surrounded by a dynamic mix of patterned textiles.
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 rugs.
The exhibition also features a trio of
reclining female nudes and two abstracted hand sculptures cast into bronze.
Isamu Noguchi (American, 1904 - 1988)
Reclining Female Nude Signed «Isamu Noguchi» in pencil on the mat l.r., label from Lawrence Rill Schumann Art Foundation, Boston, on the reverse.
In her male
nudes, the subject «is used as a vehicle to express erotic feelings, just as male artists have always used the
female nude» [10] In works such as Paul Rosano Reclining (1974) and Imperial Nude: Paul Rosano (1975), Sleigh portrayed her male subjects in stereotypical female poses in order to comment on past biases in which male artist have depicted sexualized female nu
nude» [10] In works such as Paul Rosano
Reclining (1974) and Imperial
Nude: Paul Rosano (1975), Sleigh portrayed her male subjects in stereotypical female poses in order to comment on past biases in which male artist have depicted sexualized female nu
Nude: Paul Rosano (1975), Sleigh portrayed her male subjects in stereotypical
female poses in order to comment on past biases in which male artist have depicted sexualized
female nudes.
A highlight is the beautiful Amedeo Modigliani
Nude (Nu)(1917) of a reclining female nude in peach skin tones, her round belly emphasising fertil
Nude (Nu)(1917) of a
reclining female nude in peach skin tones, her round belly emphasising fertil
nude in peach skin tones, her round belly emphasising fertility.
Working from black & white photographs, Close purged color from this large - scale painting of a
reclining female nude.
In two others,
female nudes recline before us.
The recurring formula of the
reclining female nude is reprised and subverted in works by Sarah Lucas and Urs Fischer.
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.
In Thomas» own photograph, «Sidra Sitting,» the artist replaces the typically demure, white figure of the
reclining female nude with a fully dressed black woman confident in her posture and looking at the camera head - on.
Untilled (Liegender Frauenakt)[
Reclining female nude], 2012, concrete with beehive structure, wax, and live bee colony; figure.
Featuring two
nudes — a
female hovering over a
reclined male — it is romantic and nostalgic.
His subjects are often drawn from his environment or are people he knows or admires: birch forests, self - portraits, a lone figure in a pastoral English landscape, and his wife as a
reclining female nude.
Mira Dancy's gorgeous, joyful mural of a
reclining female nude, for instance, takes off across from the ecstasy of feminist artist Mary Beth Edelson's Woman Rising (1973), a black - and - white photograph in which a woman stands in an open desert, her arms stretched out toward the sky in a gesture of empowerment and freedom that is reinforced by a V - shaped line of contrails in the sky.