Not exact matches
Classical paintings of
nude figures are
seen.
The
figure here is
nude, yet her nudity is denied through these bars of reflections.Amusingly, this disembodied, incomplete yet suggestive female
figure must be
seen as some kind of «portrait» of Mr. Helms, here feminized, stripped and placed on view for all to
see.»
The stamps, from the first - class mail equivalent «forever» series, feature 12 masterpieces from the show, including Duchamp's
Nude Descending a Staircase, no. 2, Stella's Brooklyn Bridge, and Demuth's I
Saw the
Figure 5 in Gold, the famous rendering of a moving fire truck based on a William Carols Williams poem (a natural for the Demuth Museum, the artist's home and studio in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.)
Well, I
saw one of the
figures from Rodin's Burghers of Calais (and this in itself is, I think, a very impressive piece of sculpture) in full
nude flesh at the Hayward Gallery in 1987.
Knowing the historical context of the
nude in high art and refreshing the complex artist - model relationship, her work is distinct from the «raw»
figure paintings of Jenny Saville and Lucian Freud, and goes beyond John Berger's juxtaposition of female
nudes from old master paintings with porno shots in Ways of
Seeing (1972).
In the
Nudes in the Landscape show, as in Women at Work, all of the female
figures are in fact based on drawings from a single
nude model who posed for Ms. Dodd in the model's Maine garden, where all the props to be
seen in the
figure compositions - the clothesline with laundry, the wood pile, the house and garden - were already in place.