The Friday Evening Nudes

Before the weather turns chilly, let's enjoy together a few nudes en plein air, shall we?

Just for fun, there is a one question quiz at the end of the post.

Have a lovely weekend!

Anders Zorn
Swedish painter and printmaker

Camille Pissaro
French Impressionist and post-Impressionist

 Donna Norine Schuster

American painter

Herbert James Draper 
The Kelpie

 British painter

Paul-Gustave-Fischer
Danish painter

Théo van Rysselberghe

Belgian painter

Suzanne Valadon
(a fascinating biography)
Suzanne Valadon (original name Marie-Clémentine Valadon) was born in 1865 at Bessines-sur-Gartempe, near Limoges, an illegitimate daughter of a French laundress. From age nine on she supported herself by doing odd jobs. One was as a circus acrobat. She did it until she fell off the trapeze when she was sixteen. Looking for a safer occupation, she became an artists' model. posing for such artists as Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, and Pierre-Auguste Renoir.

Anders Zorn

Henry- Edmond Cross
French painter and printmaker

Guess the painter

The first person to leave a comment identifying the artist of the above painting will receive an art-related gift in the mail.   :-)

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The Nudes of Giovanni Boldini

Giovanni Boldini (31 December, 1842- 11 July, 1931)

The master of swish.

The Artistic Anatomy Blog - Various Works of Giovanni Boldini

Clark Museum 

OCAIW - The Nude in Art History

The Friday Evening Nudes

This week's nudes are a bit more direct and perhaps to some, racier than usual. The images you may see here are among the more tame. If you follow the links, you may find a lot of John Currin's work to be unacceptable for viewing with children, in the workplace or among the prudish.

 With that out of the way, let's discuss a question that is batted about a lot in society...

fine art or high pornography?

The New Yorker - Raw Art

Gagosian - John Currin Gallery

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I recently posted this slideshow to both my fb and google+ pages and thought it was provocative enough to hopefully generate some opinions from my blog readers. Please don't be shy if you like skinny models but if you do, be prepared to be torn to shreds. ;-)  Seriously, I personally love a contrary opinion every now and then - it keeps me on my toes. 

Art's Classical Nudes Get Photoshopped

What's wrong with this picture?

If Anna Utopia Giordano dares to mess with my beloved Nymphs, I will track her down and force her to eat Italian pastries until she gains thirty pounds.

Happy weekend!

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Something a little different on The Nudes tonight, from visual artist  Angelo Musco

Enjoy your weekend!

Detail of Tehom

Angelo Musco - Wikipedia

Angelo Musco - Huffington Post article

Interview with Angelo Musco - E-Junkie.info - 

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Tonight I feature various renditions of Danae The Rembrandt is for my lovely friend Susan. 

Artemisa Gentilesch

Danaë 

(That red blanket takes my breath away.  ~ P.S.)

 Rembrandt
Danaë 
Hermitage, St. Petersburg, Russia

Danae
(detail)

Danae
(detail)





In 1985 this painting was viciously slashed and bathed in acid by a deranged man. The restoration proved highly successful. 

Danaë 
Jacob van Loo


Happy Weekend.
(Feeling a bit Sphinx-like),
Gina
:-)

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Tonight I feature (and quickly) the nudes of American figurative painter George Tooker, whose work is generally associated with the Magic Realism and Social Realism movements.

We're planning a trip to NYC and a visit to The Whitney Museum of American Art, where a sampling of Tooker's work will be featured in the exhibition Real/Surreal, along with other artists of the same bend.

A native of Brooklyn, New York, Tooker lived and worked in Windsor, Vermont. His religious panel works hang in the St. Francis of Assisi Parish, of which Tooker was an avid member. We're planning a visit there this weekend. That should provide enough material for a more comprehensive post on George Tooker.

Here you go and off I go to dinner! To my American friends and family, have a safe holiday weekend. To everyone peace and love and lots of sunshine. After a very long rainy spell, it looks like we're going to have fine weather in Western New England, finally!

~ Gina

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Tonight, the nudes go skinny (or not so skinny) dipping.   ;-)

Stay cool!

Marie Auguste Emile Rene Menard

 

 Camille Pissaro

Anders Zorn

Frileuse

Swedish

Frederick Childe-Hassam

American

Renoir

Ignacio Pinazo Camarlench

Spanish

Hippolyte-Petijean

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The nudes of Edward Steichen

One of the most influential figures in the history of photography, Edward Steichen (1879-1973) was also one of the most prolific and diverse. No other photographer can claim a leading role among the Photo-Secessionists, vibrant innovation in fashion photography, chief photographer for Condé Nast's Vogue and Vanity Fair, war photography born of two world wars, signature celebrity portraiture, and the title of curator at MOMA/NY where he conceived the groundbreaking exhibition, The Family of Man, viewed by nine million people in thirty-eight countries.  more here

 

 1903

 Nude with Cat

 Torso

1902

In 1913 Alfred Stieglitz devoted a double issue of Camera Work to Steichen's photographs. He wrote in the magazine: "Nothing I have ever done has given me quite so much satisfaction as finally sending this number out into the world." 

(Dust Grain Sheet Fed Photogravure)

1905

"Every artist undresses his subject, whether human or still life. It is his business to find essences in surfaces, and what more attractive and challenging surface than the skin around a soul?"

~ Richard Corliss