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The Blue Room (French: La chambre bleue) is a 1901 oil on canvas painting by Pablo Picasso, which he painted during his Blue Period. It depicts a scene of a nude woman bending over in a bath tub. A hidden painting was revealed beneath the surface by x-ray images and infra-red scans, showing a portrait of a bearded man.
In traditional paintings, nude women were a taboo for the artists. As a result, the portrayal of women's bodies was formulaic, always with slim figures, usually leaning on another object or have a slightly bent posture to further emphasize their delicate bodies. [1] Female images would also demonstrate ideal qualities of women at that time.
Nudity in art—painting, sculpture, and more recently photography—has generally reflected social standards of the time in aesthetics and modesty/morality. At all times in human history, the human body has been one of the principal subjects for artists. It has been represented in paintings and statues since prehistory.
This is the incredible Kay Pike. Using only body paint and paint brushes, the ever so talented Kay can magically transform herself into any superhero or villain in the (comic) book.
Beijing 2008 (Chinese: 北京2008) is a 2005 oil painting by a Chinese Canadian painter Liu Yi. It depicts four naked or half-naked women playing a game of strip mahjong [5] [2] [6] [7] and is their best known work. [8] Liu Yi painted a second new version of the painting titled "Women Playing Majong" in 2006, which differs only slightly from ...
At this time, the introduction of nude models into the teaching of human body painting in Chinese art academies was less than ten years old, and the public was still controversial about human body painting. Models at the Central Academy of Fine Arts suspended classes to protest the school's breach of its promise to keep them confidential. [3]
Woman Ironing (French: La repasseuse) [1] is a 1904 oil painting by Pablo Picasso that was completed during the artist's Blue Period (1901—1904). This evocative image, painted in neutral tones of blue and gray, depicts an emaciated woman with hollowed eyes, sunken cheeks, and bent form, as she presses down on an iron with all her will.
Gwyneth Paltrow is a vision in gold. The actress and Goop founder rang in her 50th birthday on Tuesday with a provocative photoshoot that covered her nude body in a thin layer of golden paint.