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Friday, September 14, 2012

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. :-)

Friday, December 18, 2009

The Friday Evening Nudes (On Saturday)

Hi, All,

This post was scheduled to appear last night but something went awry with the time stamp. Sorry 'bout that. Enjoy!

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Jean-Honoré Fragonard

1782-1806

Frédéric Bazille

1841-1870

Annie Swynnerton

1844- 1933

Cupid and Psyche

Evelyn Pickering de Morgan

1855-1919

Henri Lebasque

1865-1937

Suzanne Valadon
1865-1938

Jacqueline Marval

1866-1932

Karl Hofer
1878-1955

Monday, November 30, 2009

Artist of the Week - Suzanne Valadon

Hello, all! Before we delve fully into the work of Suzanne Valadon, I wanted to check in with you all regarding comment approval on the blog. I thought I'd be able to remove it by now but the Asian porn sites are still at it. It's a lot lighter but I don't want to risk removing the feature for fear that the next time I check my email, there will be twenty in one day, in posts dating back month and months; making them hard to remove. I've also recently rejected several comments from pharmaceutical sites. Maybe as a result of the mental health posts? I don't know.

Thanks to those of you who stopped by with Thanksgiving wishes. To be honest, it meant a lot to me. Many of you are juggling complicated life and family schedules, keeping blogs with large readerships and I know at least one of you is writing a novel! I can't get over my good fortune in finding a sense of friendship and community through blogging.

May love keep you always.

Pagan Sphinx

The Net Throwers
1914

The Net Throwers

detail

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1865-1938

Self-portrait

Suzanne Valadon is perhaps best known as an artist's model than as a gifted painter in her own right. Below is a sampling of paintings by famous artists for whom she posed. She learned a great deal about painting from these masters, who recognized her talent and originality. In 1915, she had her first one person exhibition, which became a critical as well as a commercial success.

When Suzanne Valadon died in 1938, her funeral was attended by Picasso, Andre Derain and George Braque.