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Plastov chose a subject where nudity seems natural to the viewer: a young woman in the open anteroom of a village bathhouse dressing a little girl. [1] [2] The artist combines the naked body of a young woman with "pink — nacre tones" and russet hair with the gray wooden walls, the soot-blackened door of the bathhouse, and the warm golden straw on the floor of the anteroom.
The woman is heavily sexualized by her suggestive pose and how Matisse portrays the curvature of her body. Her breasts are round and idealized. The brushwork in the painting is loose and shows the gestural movements of the artist. The painting has very little spatial depth, forcing the viewer to confront the woman in the foreground.
Women Friends (1916-1917) is a painting by Austrian symbolist painter Gustav Klimt. Alternatively known as The Friends , or Girlfriends II ( Freundinnen II ), among others, the work was destroyed by fire in 1945 alongside several other of Klimt's paintings in the burning of Schloss Immendorf .
A giant of early 20th century art, whose glamorous figurative paintings of women played an important role in defining Art Deco, is now the subject of her first-ever U.S. retrospective, currently ...
The Bar (painting) A Bar at the Folies-Bergère; The Bathers (Renoir) Bathers with a Turtle; The Bathers (Cézanne) Beatrice Hastings in Front of a Door; The Beauty; Beijing 2008 (painting) The Beloved (Rossetti) Berlin Street Scene; Bertha Wegmann Painting a Portrait; Bharat Mata (painting) The Black Brunswicker; Black Woman with Child
Maria Lassnig - self portraits and paintings focused on body awareness; Aristide Maillol – early 20th century; Milo Manara – Italian comic book writer and artist; Alfons Mucha – art nouveau; Patrick Nagel – modern day; Alice Neel - depicts women through the female gaze; Michael Parkes – modern day; George Petty – pin up art
For this body of work, she used pre-existing paintings from her Erotic Series (1972) as the backgrounds for gestural images of nude, middle-aged female bodies taken from her prior Locker-Room paintings (1988–91). These works represent a fertile moment of formal experimentation as Semmel began exploring color and transparency — compositional ...
From ancient history to the modern day, the clitoris has been discredited, dismissed and deleted -- and women's pleasure has often been left out of the conversation entirely. Now, an underground art movement led by artist Sophia Wallace is emerging across the globe to challenge the lies, question the myths and rewrite the rules around sex and the female body.