Let's take a look at 7 more artists who create their art using the naked human body.
In one of her most famous performances, entitled “Rhythm 0,” Abramović stood motionless in the center of the hall. The spectators had at their disposal a variety of objects that caused pleasure or pain, which they could dispose of according to their wishes. at will and do whatever you want with the motionless Marina Abramovich. The performance ended with the artist’s clothes torn, and her body had many cuts and thorns from roses.
At the performance, entitled “Relationships in Space,” a naked Abramovich and her lover twirled and beat each other until they were completely exhausted, trying to show what a serious relationship between a man and a woman leads to. Another shocking trick by Abramovich was the idea of placing naked people at the entrance to the exhibition in such a way that visitors had to squeeze between them.
At one of the last events, the artist came out completely naked in the center of Cologne with a poster « Respect us! We are not targets of attack, even when naked!”, thus expressing their attitude towards migrants attacking civilians. However, back in 2014, she became famous for her performance, in which she painted with her vagina. Moiret pumped paint into chicken eggs using a syringe, placed them in her vagina and dropped them from a height onto the canvas. The result is a painting in the genre of abstract painting.
In addition, the artist ridiculed the love of many inhabitants of the Earth for selfies, inviting ordinary people in Paris and Berlin to take pictures with her in the city center. Muare was photographed, of course, naked.
Poppy Jackson
Poppy Jackson once sat on a London rooftop for four hours. According to her, with this action she wanted to bring people out of virtual reality V real life. As Jackson said, correspondence on social networks has replaced normal communication between people, and in order to bring “intimacy” back into life, she staged this performance. Indeed, Londoners could take a break from the monitor for a while and admire the naked body of Poppy Jackson through the window.
Casey Jenkins
Feminist Casey Jenkins rose to fame with her vaginal knitting in an Australian gallery. For a month, she pushed the ball into herself every day wool threads and knitted a sweater from them, without taking breaks even during menstruation. Thus, the artist tried to speak out against, in her opinion, society’s incorrect perception of female genital organs. Casey Jenkins believes that women shouldn’t be ashamed and hide them bashfully.
Spencer Tunick
The American artist is known primarily for his large-scale performances, which sometimes involve thousands of naked people. His record-breaking event was in Mexico City in 2007, for which the artist managed to gather 18 thousand volunteers. Then almost the entire Constitution Square of the Mexican capital was filled with naked people. At the same time, for his installation of human bodies, Tunick forced his volunteers to curl up in a fetal position on the ground.
Sarah Small
The artist’s most famous event was the production of Tableau Vivant, which can be translated as “living picture.” About 120 people of different genders, nationalities, ages and weight categories took part in the performance, most of whom were completely naked. At the same time, the artist was partly the creator of the musical series, and also played in the production main role. Sarah Small's living painting reminded many of both the works of the surrealists and the works of Bosch.
Hilda Kron Hughes
One of the performances of the Norwegian artist Hilda Krohn Hughes, whose works were seen at the Bloomberg new art exhibition, turned into an embarrassment. To make the video installation, Hughes turned on the camera, climbed a tree in the forest and hung from it on a rope, head down. However, Hughes was unable to extricate herself, so she had to hang in this way for more than three hours until she was finally rescued. Despite the fact that the performance did not go as planned, the artist did not lose her head and came up with a new concept for her installation, which, according to Hughes, now demonstrated the powerlessness of the artist, which is the key to understanding true art.
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The 1930s and 40s were the period of the triumph of socialist realism. Although there were other directions. The main themes when depicting nudes remained “models in the studio” and water procedures - beaches, swimming and saunas. Except in the studio - for the sake of art, during hygienic bathing and health-improving sunbathing, it was, of course, inappropriate for a Soviet person to flaunt naked.
So, let's start with the bathers.
K. Somov. "Bathers in the Sun", 1930.
In Kovalenko, "On the Beach", 1930.
Now let's move to the artists' studios.
The painting by V. Bukovetsky is called “In the Studio”. 1930
Pyotr Konchalovsky. "Model" (sketch). 1930.
Sometimes the models couldn’t stand it and even fell asleep. N. Tyrsa. "Sleeping Model", 1930.
This one doesn't seem to have fallen asleep yet. But on the verge. Nikolai Mako, "Reclining Nude", 1930.
G. Gorelov. "Nude from the back", 1930.
Alexander Samokhvalov. “Girl with a Towel”, 1930. The picture is the most harmless, but now, I’m afraid, the poor artist will be accused of what the hell...
Yuri Annenkom painted a painting in 1930 to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the death of Amedeo Modigliani. "In Memory of Modigliani."
Vladimir Lebedev, "Nude", 1932.
And another painting by the same artist, from the same year and with the same title.
In addition to studio and water scenes, images of the “nude” genre began to appear, with the theme “morning”. This direction will become especially popular later, starting in the post-war years.
K. Somov, "Summer morning", 1932.
Alexander Deineka, where would we be without him? "Bathing girls", 1932.
And again - “Morning”. Our Alexander Deineka, 1933.
Sometimes artists painted male figures. P. Konchalovsky. “Students in the Workshop”, 1932. It’s interesting that they had classes there. But then people were unspoiled, and nothing like that could even have occurred to anyone.
But still, artists preferred female nature. G. Gorelov. "Reclining Girl", 1934.
But socialist realism did not spend the night here. David Burliuk, "Nude", 1933.
A. Samokhvalov, “After the cross-country”, 1935. An athlete, and probably a Komsomol member...
B. Yakovlev. "Girl on the Stone", 1936.
Painting by Vl. Pebedev with the unexpected title “Cashier”, 1936.
A year later, the artist draws the same cashier, but with the title “Woman with Crossed Arms.”
Nikolai Tyrsa, "Seated Model", 1937.
The artist Tatyana Mavrina clearly moved away from the principles of socialist realism and was subjected to alien influences. "Nudes with a blue teapot", 1936.
Hers, "Portrait of Olga Hildebrant", 1937. Nothing like a portrait, right?
Olga Amosova-Bunak, "Dandelion", 1939.
And again water and washing matters. N. Bogdanov-Belsky, "Tug of War", 1939.
Alexander Gerasimov, apparently, was a bathhouse lover. Especially women's. "In the Bath", 1940.
His “Bath”, dated somehow strangely: 1938-1956.
V. Dreznina, "Rest on the Shore", 1940.
And again Alexander Deineka, “Running Girls”, 1941.
Arkady Plastov, "Tractor Drivers", 1942. Men fought, and women mastered professions that were not at all feminine...
Let's take a look at 7 more artists who create their art using the naked human body.
In one of her most famous performances, entitled “Rhythm 0,” Abramović stood motionless in the center of the hall. The audience had at their disposal many objects that caused pleasure or pain, which they could dispose of at their own request and do whatever they wanted with the motionless Marina Abramovic. The performance ended with the artist’s clothes torn, and her body had many cuts and thorns from roses.
At the performance, entitled “Relationships in Space,” a naked Abramovich and her lover twirled and beat each other until they were completely exhausted, trying to show what a serious relationship between a man and a woman leads to. Another shocking trick by Abramovich was the idea of placing naked people at the entrance to the exhibition in such a way that visitors had to squeeze between them.
At one of the last events, the artist came out completely naked in the center of Cologne with a poster « Respect us! We are not targets of attack, even when naked!”, thus expressing their attitude towards migrants attacking civilians. However, back in 2014, she became famous for her performance, in which she painted with her vagina. Moiret pumped paint into chicken eggs using a syringe, placed them in her vagina and dropped them from a height onto the canvas. The result is a painting in the genre of abstract painting.
In addition, the artist ridiculed the love of many inhabitants of the Earth for selfies, inviting ordinary people in Paris and Berlin to take pictures with her in the city center. Muare was photographed, of course, naked.
Poppy Jackson
Poppy Jackson once sat on a London rooftop for four hours. According to her, with this action she wanted to bring people out of virtual reality into real life. As Jackson said, correspondence on social networks has replaced normal communication between people, and in order to bring “intimacy” back into life, she staged this performance. Indeed, Londoners could take a break from the monitor for a while and admire the naked body of Poppy Jackson through the window.
Casey Jenkins
Feminist Casey Jenkins rose to fame with her vaginal knitting in an Australian gallery. For a month, every day she stuffed a ball of woolen threads into herself and knitted a sweater from them, without taking breaks even during menstruation. Thus, the artist tried to speak out against, in her opinion, society’s incorrect perception of female genital organs. Casey Jenkins believes that women shouldn’t be ashamed and hide them bashfully.
Spencer Tunick
The American artist is known primarily for his large-scale performances, which sometimes involve thousands of naked people. His record-breaking event was in Mexico City in 2007, for which the artist managed to gather 18 thousand volunteers. Then almost the entire Constitution Square of the Mexican capital was filled with naked people. At the same time, for his installation of human bodies, Tunick forced his volunteers to curl up in a fetal position on the ground.
Sarah Small
The artist’s most famous event was the production of Tableau Vivant, which can be translated as “living picture.” About 120 people of different genders, nationalities, ages and weight categories took part in the performance, most of whom were completely naked. At the same time, the artist was partly the creator of the musical series, and also played the main role in the production. Sarah Small's living painting reminded many of both the works of the surrealists and the works of Bosch.
Hilda Kron Hughes
One of the performances of the Norwegian artist Hilda Krohn Hughes, whose works were seen at the Bloomberg new art exhibition, turned into an embarrassment. To make the video installation, Hughes turned on the camera, climbed a tree in the forest and hung from it on a rope, head down. However, Hughes was unable to extricate herself, so she had to hang in this way for more than three hours until she was finally rescued. Despite the fact that the performance did not go as planned, the artist did not lose her head and came up with a new concept for her installation, which, according to Hughes, now demonstrated the powerlessness of the artist, which is the key to understanding true art.
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The nude genre is an image of naked nature. Erotica and pornography were banned in the Soviet Union. Strawberry lovers could end up in camps for many years. But the artistic depiction of nudity was not prohibited, although it was on the very edge.
If good displays inner world character, then the image of a nude conveys the beauty of the human body, its lightness and grace.
Painting of the Soviet period is generally considered to be highly moral. But it is not so. The depiction of naked nature was in great demand; it just had to be given the right ideological coloring. The beautiful female body has always inspired artists. A beautiful body can generate a flurry of emotions.
Depiction of naked nature as a genre of fine art
You should not think that a nude is just an image of a naked body. Each era fills nude paintings with its own characteristics. Looking at paintings from different eras, we can see how the idea of beauty has changed over the years. Starting from the paintings of Rubens, in which we see curvaceous women, to modern paintings, where artists show grace rather than form. During the Soviet period, all paintings, including this genre, were painted according to the canons of socialist realism. they painted athletes and athletes, peasant women on vacation, etc. Very often, the nude was an element of some composition, for example, relaxing on a river or washing in a bathhouse; in such paintings, artists tried to show the nude as a harmonious element. The peculiarity of nude paintings in the spirit of socialist realism is that beauty female body transmitted strictly for artistic purposes, without sexual overtones. Another feature is the image of many models in dynamics.
The paintings of the masters delight with their grace and beauty of bodies; they will bring an atmosphere of intimacy to the interior. This is a worthy choice for a personal collection.
Nude painting is a great idea for original gift. The works presented on our website were written by talented artists. What gives them special value is that they are recognized masters of a bygone era.
Edouard Manet, Olympia
Manet's 1863 painting shows a woman covering her genitals with her left hand and leaning on pillows with her right. By official version, this is Quiz Meurant, the artist’s favorite model. But many experts are sure that this is not Victorina, but the famous courtesan and mistress of Napoleon Bonaparte, Margarita Bellanger.
The fact is that in those days the name Olympia was a common noun for women of questionable behavior. This theory is also confirmed by the accessories on the body of the heroine of the picture - a flower in her hair and a ribbon around her neck. Also, the girl’s reputation is revealed by her look - there is no modesty, she looks straight and is even a little bored.
Quiz Meurant
Marguerite Bellanger
In 1863, it was very difficult to dare to exhibit a painting of a naked girl on an untidy bed. This living body, without Greek memories, which means the artist saw it himself. Manet dared to present his work to the public only in 1865, and then thanks to the assistance of Charles Baudelaire.
Thomas Couture, "Dinner after the Masquerade"
This is a painting from a series dedicated to the characters of the Italian Commedia dell'Arte. The famous Parisian courtesan Alina Ozi lies on the floor, and next to her is a self-portrait of the artist himself.
Tired revelers settled down in the fashionable restaurant “Golden House”, where the de Goncourt brothers, Alexandre Dumas the son and Couture himself often sat.
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, "Toilet"
The artist loved to depict prostitutes and generally made friends with them. He took them to restaurants, circuses and theaters, gave them flowers and gifts, and brought them to his studio. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec lived in brothels for some time and called himself “an aristocrat, cut off from his own kind”: he had a hereditary disease, due to which the artist was short in stature and had short legs.
Henri died at the age of 36, struck down by alcoholism and syphilis, which one of his mistresses infected him with. As for the painting “Toilet”, it depicts red-haired woman, who has just finished hygiene procedures. This work is interesting because it does not sexualize the topic of prostitution, but shows the everyday side of the life of priestesses of love.
Carmen Gaudin acted as the model. The girl worked as a laundress, but there was a catastrophic lack of money, and from time to time she worked as a prostitute.
Pablo Picasso, "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon"
The painting is interesting not only because it depicts prostitutes, but also because it is Picasso’s first cubic work. It was painted in 1907 and at first had the title “The Philosophical Brothel,” but later the artist’s friend Andre Salmon renamed the canvas “Les Demoiselles d’Avignon.”
The heroines of the picture are five naked women, painted in different ways - cubism was born in the faces of the two women on the right, who look like shaman masks. According to one version, Picasso decided to create a painting inspired by a brothel in Barcelona's Gothic Quarter on Carrer d'Avigno.
Egon Schiele, "Black-haired girl with a lifted skirt"
The artist and graphic artist Egon Schiele was one of the most famous expressionists of the early 20th century. He was from Austria and was fond of pornographic drawings.
In 1912, the artist was arrested on charges of molesting a minor, and during a search, dozens of images with naked children in very obscene poses were discovered. But Schiele got off easy - he was sentenced to a short prison term.
The girl in the picture is an underage prostitute. She is flushed, her lips are slightly parted, and her legs are spread wide and showing her genitals. It also speaks practically about the age of the model. complete absence pubic hair.
The picture causes outrage even now, let alone at the beginning of the 20th century.
Henri Gervous, "Rolla"
The artist was inspired to create this painting after reading the play of the same name by Alfred de Musset. In this scene, the hedonist and voluptuous Rolla is about to take possession of the underage prostitute Marie. Details tell about the girl’s type of activity: clothes discarded in a hurry, jewelry, relaxed pose. Rolla is tense, but eager to have sex with the young beauty.
The painting was painted in 1878. One of the most prestigious exhibitions in France, the Paris Salon, gladly accepted all of Gervais' paintings. Everything except Rolla. But when the work finally got to the exhibition, it created a real sensation - whole crowds of people gathered around it, wanting to look at the provocative masterpiece at that time.