01 Painting, The Art Of The Nude, Cui Xiaodong’s Nude girl, with footnotes # 158

Cui Xiaodong (Chinese, born 1964)
裸女 油画/ Nude girl
Oil on canvas
160 x 85 cm. (63 x 33.5 in.)
Private collection

Cui Xiaodong was born in Qiqihar, Heilongjiang Province though his ancestral home was Yangzhou, Jiangsu Province. Cui Xiaodong graduated from the Department of Traditional Chinese Painting, CAFA in 1988 with a Master’s degree. Currently he is a professor of CAFA, Director of Yanhuang Art Museum.

With a profound traditional foundation in painting, Cui Xiaodong’s landscape painting is the combination of the tradition of Chinese painting and modern people’s aesthetic consciousness and the spirit of the age, he creates a dignified and vigorous, natural and fresh style of landscape painting, he is a representative of contemporary Chinese painting and has an important status in this field. His works are collected by the National Museum of China, CAFA, National Art Museum of China, The Great Hall of the People, Zhongnanhai Central Government Compound as well as in individual collections at home and abroad. He has published more than 30 books and individual workscatalogues. More on Cui Xiaodong

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06 Paintings, The Art Of The Nude, by Cui Xiaodong with footnotes # 157

Cui Xiaodong (Chinese, born 1964)
Floating , c. 2010
Oil on canvas
130 x 130 cm. (51.2 x 51.2 in.)
Private collection

Cui Xiaodong’s works are very pure oil paintings. The characteristics of oil paintings are fully exerted, and the interest of the shape and the expression of colors are combined very well. This kind of oil painting with traditional skills, the techniques are mastered so skillfully. Cui Xiaodong’s colors are thick, and his brushwork is delicate and vigorous. He has both the strictness of the northern style and the combination of the southern agile brushwork. The colors are very powerful. Chen Danqing…

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01 Painting, The Art Of The Nude, Dina Larot’s Virgin, with footnotes # 154

Dina Larot, Austrian, born 1943
Virgin, c. 1993
Oil on canvas
43,3 x 27,6
Private collection

Dina Larot is a 20th-century Austrian painter. Known for both her landscapes and erotic female nudes, Larot’s stylized aesthetic is marked by the influence of earlier Austrian masters, the painters Gustav Klimt and Oskar Kokoschka. Her figures in particular recall the elongated forms and intimate sensuality of the Vienna Succession artists. Born in 1943 in Vienna, Austria, Larot studied under noted artist Rudolf Szyszkowitz at the School of Applied Art in Graz, as well as with Oskar Kokoschka himself in Salzburg. Larot lives and works in Vienna. More on Dina Larot

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01 Painting, The Art Of The Nude, Boris Kustodiev’s Model, with footnotes # 156

Boris Kustodiev, (1878-1927)
Model, c. 1919
Oil on canvas
20 ¼ x 15 7/8 in. (51.3 x 40.4 cm.)
Private collection

Boris Mikhailovich Kustodiev was born in Astrakhan on March 7, 1878 into the family of a professor of philosophy, history of literature, and logic at the local theological seminary.

Between 1893 and 1896, Boris took private art lessons in Astrakhan. Subsequently, from 1896 to 1903, he attended Ilya Repin’s studio at the Academy of Arts in St. Peterburg. Concurrently he took classes in sculpture under Dmitry Stelletsky and in etching under Vasily Mathé.

In 1904, he traveled to Spain, in 1907 to Italy, and in 1909 visited Austria, France, and Germany, and again Italy. During these years he painted many portraits and genre pieces.

In 1909, Kustodiev developed the initial symptoms of the grave illness that in 1916 paralyzed the lower part of his body, thus confining him to his studio where he continued to paint, relying on memories from his boyhood and youth and on his imagination. 

In 1923, Kustodiev joined the Association of Artists of Revolutionary Russia. He continued to paint, make engravings, illustrate books and design for the theater up until his death on May 28, 1927, in Leningrad. More on Boris Kustodiev

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01 Painting, The Art Of The Nude, Josh Honeyman’s Victorine Meurent and her crayons, with footnotes # 152

Josh Honeyman, Australia
Victorine Meurent and her crayons
Oil on Canvas.
39.4 W x 59.1 H x 0.2 in
Private collection

Victorine-Louise Meurent (February 18, 1844 – March 17, 1927) was a French painter and a famous model for painters. Although she is best known as the favourite model of Édouard Manet, she was also an artist in her own right who regularly exhibited at the prestigious Paris Salon. In 1876 her paintings were selected for inclusion at the Salon’s juried exhibition, when Manet’s work was not.

Meurent’s name remains forever associated with Manet’s masterpieces of 1863, The Luncheon on the Grass and Olympia, which include nude portrayals of her. More on Victorine Meurent

Josh Honeyman lives near Blackheath close to the highest point of the Blue Mountains. He takes us there, into visionary landscapes, reimagining the world through a host of signs, symbols and haunting scenarios. Arcane narratives are suggested, ones steeped in myth, portents and divinations. There’s love, death, poetry, mystery, wizardry, far beyond anything the camera can offer. The fact that Honeyman is a highly skilled painter allows him to convince us of the validity of these alternative realms. Let’s go there, not all the time, but long enough to recognise that the human spirit is more than just a receptacle for the banal pragmatism and dull conventions of Western rationalism. Robert Hollingworth, 2019

Josh studied at the College of Fine Arts, Sydney. He has exhibited in a range of solo and group shows across Australia and in Los Angeles, USA in 2006.

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06 Photographs, The Art Of The Nude, Playboy’s Raquel Welch in her blue bikini, with footnotes # 113

Chris von Wangenheim
Reflection, Raquel Welch, Playboy, c. 1979
Photograph
Private collection

Chris von Wangenheim was born in Breig, in what was then a war-torn East Prussia, in 1942. His father was an officer in the German Army who died in Soviet captivity in 1953. This tragedy would go on to inform his son’s dark nature. By this time von Wangenheim was living in the Bavarian mountains with his mother and sister and, inspired by a photographer living in the upstairs flat, had developed a burgeoning interest in photography. Von Wangenheim carried this fascination with him into adulthood. In 1965 he relocated to New York City to kickstart his own career. He got his start as an assistant for Harper’s Bazaar photographer James Moore, and as a result secured a few pages in the magazine…

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01 Work, The Art Of The Nude, Katerina Belkina’s For (Egon) Schiele, with footnotes # 146

Katerina Belkina, Russian, b. 1974
Detail; For (Egon) Schiele
Archival pigment print
120 by 84cm., 47 by 33in.
Private collection

Egon Schiele (German: 12 June 1890 – 31 October 1918) was an Austrian painter. A protégé of Gustav Klimt, Schiele was a major figurative painter of the early 20th century. His work is noted for its intensity and its raw sexuality, and the many self-portraits the artist produced, including naked self-portraits. The twisted body shapes and the expressive line that characterize Schiele’s paintings and drawings mark the artist as an early exponent of Expressionism. More on Egon Schiele

Katerina Belkina (born 1974, Samara, Russia) is a Russian contemporary pictoralist photographer and painter. She digitally manipulates many of her photographs to appear as paintings, and often uses herself as the model in her work.

From 1989 Belkina studied at the Art School and the Petrow-Vodkin art academy in Samara. From 1994 – 1999 she worked at the publishing house Fedorow in Samara. In 2000 she started to study at the Michael-Musorin school for photography in her hometown where she studied till 2002. At the same time she worked as a computer graphic designer at a Russian television channel.

In 2007, Belkina was nominated for the Russian Kandinsky Prize. In 2009/2010 she was at the 1st Photo Biennale of the Russian Museum at the Marble Palace in St. Petersburg. In 2011, she was in the framework of the Fourth Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art. In 2015, she was awarded the International Lucas-Cranach-Preis. In 2016, she won the Hasselblad Masters’ Competition with a self-portrait as a pregnant woman.

Belkina is a member of the Union of Russian Photographers.

Belkina’s photographic work is strongly influenced by the painting. It focuses entirely on portraits. In recent years she mainly focused on staged self-portraits.The series “Paint” combined picturesque and photographic elements and reinterpreted paintings by famous painters. The series “Hieroglyph” consists of body fragments, processed for a collage. The series “Empty Spaces” was created in 2010/11.  More on Katerina Belkina

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01 Painting, The Art Of The Nude, Leon Kroll’s Reclining Nude, with footnotes # 139

Leon Kroll
Reclining Nude
Pastel on Board
12 inches x 16 inches.
Private collection

Leon Kroll (December 6, 1884 – October 25, 1974) was an American painter and lithographer. Known as a figurative artist, Life Magazine described him as “the dean of U.S. nude painters,” yet he was an exceptional landscape painter and also produced an exceptional body of still life compositions.

He studied at the Art Students League of New York, and at the Académie Julian in Paris in the late 1800s. In 1913 Kroll showed work at the Armory Show.

Kroll taught at the Art Students League of New York and the school of the National Academy of Design, where he had his first solo exhibition in 1910, was named as Associate in 1920 and as full Academician in 1927. In 1930, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He was also named Chevalier of the Legion of Honor in 1950. Kroll died in Gloucester, Massachusetts aged 89. More on Leon Kroll

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01 Photograph, The Art Of The Nude, Ruth Bernhard’s Detail; Transparent, with footnotes # 137

Ruth Bernhard, (American, 1905-2006)
Detail; Transparent, c. 1968
Gelatin silver
9-5/8 x 6-1/2 inches (24.4 x 16.5 cm)
Private collection

Ruth Bernhard, American photographer (born Oct. 14, 1905, Berlin, Ger.—died Dec. 18, 2006, San Francisco, Calif.), celebrated the female form with her light-infused black-and-white nudes, which were distinctive for their clarity and carefully wrought details. Bernhard’s career took a pivotal turn after a chance meeting with photographer Edward Weston, who became her mentor. She joined the Group f.64, a Modernist circle of photographers that included Weston, Ansel Adams, and Dorothea Lange. Bernhard was primarily a studio photographer, and she spent hours setting up compositions that featured inanimate objects. A perfectionist whose output was slim, Bernhard earned a living by teaching and taking on commercial assignments. More on Ruth Bernhard

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01 Photograph, The Art Of The Nude, Lidia Wylangowska’s Eva, with footnotes #141

Lidia Wylangowska, United States
Eva
Giclee print
36 W x 40 H x 0.1 in
Private collection

Lidia Wylangowska: “My art tells my story. It’s a story of my world, of my thoughts and emotions entwined in an internal dialogue. And some of it can be expressed only through painting. It is incredible, how fairy-tales I heard once-upon-a-time, in my childhood actually influenced my life and defined who I am. 

The technique I use in my works is changing and evolving as I do. There is a lot my very own inventions in it but the very base comes from Renaissance Masters. Masaccio, Leonardo da Vinci , Raphael are commonly considered to have pioneered the use of chiaroscuro to create the illusion of relief – notably in the modelling of the human body. Chiaroscuro modeling is supporting the effect of color. In order to use the under painting efficiently, I put the color transparently. The transparent layer of paint spread over the top of an opaque passage that has been given some time to dry. Light travels through the glaze and is reflected back off of the opaque layer below. The light in the painting constructed this way lit the color from the bottom. More on Lidia Wylangowska

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03 Photographs, The Art Of The Nude, by Fabio Cabral, with footnotes # 136

Fabio Cabral, (Brazilian, b. 1958)
Mulher Tirando a Blusa/ Woman taking off her blouse
Photography
60 x 50 cm
Private collection

Fabio Cabral was born in Rio de Janeiro, 1958. He is a freelance Photographer and Film Director that has been working with digital and traditional techniques since 1982. He has given up his work as a medical doctor due to a strong desire to work with arts. His work focuses predominantly on: fiction — advertisement and fashion, institutional, documentary, creative photography and fine art photography…

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04 Photographs, The Art Of The Nude, Peter Beard’s Janice Dickinson in Kenya, with footnotes # 135

Peter Beard, (b. 1938)
Janice Dickinson, Kenya, Circa 1970
Silver print with expressive pen-and-ink illustrations
14 1/4×9 1/2 inches (36.8×24.1 cm.)
Private collection

Janice Doreen Dickinson (born February 16, 1955) is an American model, author, actress, television personality, and talent agent. Initially notable as a model, she has been disputably described by herself and others as the first supermodel. One of the most successful models of the 1970s and 1980s, she also served as a judge on four cycles on America’s Next Top Model beginning in 2003. She opened a modeling agency in 2005, which was documented in the reality television series The Janice Dickinson Modeling Agency (2006–2008)…

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01 Painting, The Art Of The Nude, Tom Wesselman’s Monica Sitting with Mondrian, with footnotes # 133

Tom Wesselmann, (New York, Ohio, 1931-2004)
Monica Sitting with Mondrian, c. 1989
Screenprint
41 x 27 in
Private collection

Mondrian refers to the artist whose painting is shown behind the model.

Wesselmann’s most famous series, “Great American Nude” (1961–73), channels the brazen energy of American advertising and features flat, faceless female figures whom the artist often situated among stars and stripes. More on this painting

The artist always refrains from developing the facial features of the sitters, as is the case in the work presented here. The attractive model Monica sits undressed and in a lascivious pose in front of one of the modern classics, a work by Piet Mondrian.

Pieter Cornelis Mondriaan (7 March 1872 – 1 February 1944), was a Dutch painter and theoretician who is regarded as one of the greatest artists of the 20th century. He is known for being one of the pioneers of 20th century abstract art, as he changed his artistic direction from figurative painting to an increasingly abstract style, until he reached a point where his artistic vocabulary was reduced to simple geometric elements. More on Pieter Cornelis Mondriaan

Tom Wesselmann (1931–2004) was one of the leading American Pop artists of the 1960s. Departing from Abstract Expressionism, he explored classical representations of the nude, still life, and landscape, while incorporating everyday objects and advertising ephemera.

Wesselmann was drafted into the US Army in 1952, two years into the Korean War. During his military service, he learned—then taught—aerial photography interpretation, and began to draw cartoons about his experiences. Upon his return to his hometown of Cincinnati, he completed a BA in psychology at the University of Cincinnati and began taking classes at the Art Academy of Cincinnati. In fall 1956, he moved to New York City to study art at the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art. At Cooper Union, he met Claire Selley, who would become his wife and lifelong muse. 

Living in Brooklyn, Wesselmann supported himself by selling cartoons to the Saturday Evening Post, “gag” magazines, and advertising agencies. In the late 1950s, he cofounded the Judson Gallery in the West Village with Marc Ratliff and Jim Dine. After completing his studies at Cooper Union, Wesselmann spent three years teaching high school art and math. During the evening, he continued to expand his own artistic practice, making small portrait collages. 

Wesselmann is highly regarded for his Great American Nude series (1961–73), which combines sensual depictions of the female figure with references to art history and popular culture. Many of these lounging female subjects were painted in patriotic red, white, and blue. In the late 1960s Wesselmann created close-up views of the nude in the Bedroom Paintings (1968–83). More on Tom Wesselmann

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01 Photograph, The Art Of The Nude, Ruth Bernhard’s Knees and Arms, with footnotes # 130

Ruth Bernhard, (American, 1905-2006
Knees and Arms, 1976
Photograph
7″H x 9″W
Private collection

Ruth Bernhard, American photographer (born Oct. 14, 1905, Berlin, Ger. — died Dec. 18, 2006, San Francisco, Calif.), celebrated the female form with her light-infused black-and-white nudes, which were distinctive for their clarity and carefully wrought details. Bernhard’s career took a pivotal turn after a chance meeting with photographer Edward Weston, who became her mentor. She joined the Group f.64, a Modernist circle of photographers that included Weston, Ansel Adams, and Dorothea Lange. Bernhard was primarily a studio photographer, and she spent hours setting up compositions that featured inanimate objects. A perfectionist whose output was slim, Bernhard earned a living by teaching and taking on commercial assignments. More on Ruth Bernhard

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01 Photograph, The Art Of The Nude, Greg Gorman’s Sisters, with footnotes # 138

Greg Gorman
Sisters : L.A., 1990
Archival Pigment Print
19 7/10 × 15 7/10 in, 50 × 40 cm
Private collection

Greg Gorman, born in Kansas City in the US in 1949. Gorman is an American portrait photographer of Hollywood celebrities. His work has been seen in national magazine features and covers, including Esquire, GQ, Interview, Life, Vogue, Newsweek, Rolling Stone, Time, Vanity Fair, and the London Sunday Times. Although he studied photojournalism in college, his passion for rock-and-roll led him to his chosen field when he photographed Jimi Hendrix in 1968. John Waters once said, “Greg Gorman is the only person I’d let photograph my corpse”. He primarily works in black and white.He has also directed music videos, television advertisements, and graphic design layouts for advertisers.On February 17, 2010 Greg Gorman was interviewed by fashion photographer and blogger Lope Navo. More on Greg Gorman

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01 Painting, The Art Of The Nude, DORA L. WILSON’s Nude with Pomegranates, with footnotes # 132

DORA L. WILSON, (1883-1946)
Nude with Pomegranates
Pastel on paper
47 x 37cm
Private collection

Dora Lynnell Wilson (31 August 1883–21 November 1946) was a British-born Australian artist, Wilson was educated at Somerset School and Methodist Ladies’ College in Melbourne. From 1901–1906 she studied at the National Gallery.

Wilson was best known for her etchings, pastels and oils of still lifes and nudes. Her work was praised for her ‘strong sense of colour’ but also critiqued for demonstrating a ‘chocolate box prettiness’. Her work was included in a number of notable exhibitions.

From the 1920s onward she concentrated largely on street scenes, and in 1923 she was commissioned by Sir Baldwin Spencer to undertake a series of paintings of European landmarks, which saw her travelling around Europe for over two years. In 1928 these works were exhibited at the Beaux Arts Gallery, London, and the following year at Australia House. In the early 1930s she focused on historical scenes from Melbourne’s history. More on Dora Wilson

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01 Painting, The Art Of The Nude, Marcos Grigorian’s Nude Woman, with footnotes # 131

Marcos Grigorian, (Iranian, 1925-2007)
Nude Woman, c. 1974
Oil on canvas
41 3/8 x 41 3/8 in. (105 x 105cm.)
Private collection

Marcos Grigorian (December 5, 1925 – August 27, 2007) was a notable Iranian-Armenian artist and a pioneer of Iranian modern art. 

Grigorian and his Armenian family immigrated to Iran from Russia in 1930. He studied at the Kamāl-al-Molk Art School in Tehran from 1948 to 1950. After graduating he moved to Rome, where he received a degree from the Accademia di Belle Arti. Upon his return to Tehran in 1954 he opened the modern art gallery Esthétique and initiated a collection of Iranian coffeehouse paintings—a folk genre. In 1956 he participated in the Venice Biennale for the first time, and two years later returned as an Iranian delegate and an International Jury member. In 1958 he organized the first Tehran Biennial. Around the same time he initiated his acclaimed “Earthworks” series, in which he created textured surfaces by fixing materials like sand, earth, and ashes to canvas. He lived in the United States from 1962 to 1970, returning to Iran after the Iranian Revolution. In the 1970s he joined the Faculty of Fine Arts at Tehran University and founded the Independent Artists Group. Gregorian established the Arshile Gorky Gallery, New York in 1980 and the Near East Museum of Yerevan in 1993. More on Marcos Grigorian

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01 Painting, The Art Of The Nude, Tom Wesselmann’s an american portrait, with footnotes # 128

Tom Wesselmann, (1931 – 2004)
From an american portrait
Oil on canvas
28 inches high and 22 inches wide
Private collection

Tom Wesselmann (1931–2004) was one of the leading American Pop artists of the 1960s. Departing from Abstract Expressionism, he explored classical representations of the nude, still life, and landscape, while incorporating everyday objects and advertising ephemera.

Wesselmann was drafted into the US Army in 1952, two years into the Korean War. During his military service, he learned—then taught—aerial photography interpretation, and began to draw cartoons about his experiences. Upon his return to his hometown of Cincinnati, he completed a BA in psychology at the University of Cincinnati and began taking classes at the Art Academy of Cincinnati. In fall 1956, he moved to New York City to study art at the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art. At Cooper Union, he met Claire Selley, who would become his wife and lifelong muse. 

Living in Brooklyn, Wesselmann supported himself by selling cartoons to the Saturday Evening Post, “gag” magazines, and advertising agencies. In the late 1950s, he cofounded the Judson Gallery in the West Village with Marc Ratliff and Jim Dine. After completing his studies at Cooper Union, Wesselmann spent three years teaching high school art and math. During the evening, he continued to expand his own artistic practice, making small portrait collages. 

Wesselmann is highly regarded for his Great American Nude series (1961–73), which combines sensual depictions of the female figure with references to art history and popular culture. Many of these lounging female subjects were painted in patriotic red, white, and blue. In the late 1960s Wesselmann created close-up views of the nude in the Bedroom Paintings (1968–83). More on Tom Wesselmann

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01 work, The Art Of The Nude, Louis Anquetin’s FEMMES À LEUR TOILETTE, #244

Louis Anquetin
FEMMES À LEUR TOILETTE, circa 1890
Oil on board
13 3/4 by 10 1/2 in. (alt: 34.8 by 26.7 cm)
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Louis Anquetin (26 January 1861 – 19 August 1932) was a French painter; born in Étrépagny, France and educated at the Lycée Pierre Corneille in Rouen.

In 1882 he came to Paris and began studying art at Léon Bonnat’s studio, where he met Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. The two artists later moved to the studio of Fernand Cormon, where they befriended Émile Bernard and Vincent van Gogh.

Around 1887, Anquetin and Bernard developed a painting style that used flat regions of color and thick, black contour outlines. This style, named cloisonnism by critic Edouard Dujardin, was inspired by both stained glass and Japanese ukiyo-e.

He eventually fell from the public’s eye after abandoning the modern movements, opting instead to study the methods of the Old Masters. Thus, Anquetin’s works following the mid-1890s, such as Rinaldo and Armida, were especially Rubensian and allegorical in nature. More on Louis Anquetin

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03 Paintings, The Art Of The Nude, by Pegah Samaie, with footnotes # 126

Pegah Samaie, American, b. 1980
Defiance, 2020
Oil on aluminum
24 × 30 in, 61 × 76.2 cm
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Pegah Samaie is an American-Iranian artist who was born and grew up in Tehran, Iran. Pegah’s art moves through the shadow of her past life. She uses art as a tool to face the experiences she and other women have encountered in a culture dominated by patriarchal governments and households. Her early experiences in Iran changed her perception of the role of women in society; they motivated her and influenced her way of talking about women. Art is her voice to talk about her feelings and experiences…

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