by Victor | Jul 6, 2022 | Art
Introduction The status of female nudity in Renaissance art poses an incredible array of ethical difficulties for contemporary feminists. While aesthetically pleasing, such nudity can be regarded as reducing women to their sexuality and perpetuating sexist beliefs....
by Victor | Jul 5, 2022 | Art
The word nude is derived from the Latin nudus, which means “naked” or “bare,” as in a state of undress or primaeval nakedness. However, in the West, the phrase in the nude or the nude has come to mean works of art, cultural traditions, and...
by Victor | Jul 3, 2022 | Art
Why could this unexpected imposition of nudity—nudity wonderfully portrayed in a renowned masterwork, no less—have such a stunning effect on its viewers, I wondered? Was it because they were stiff-upper-lip Americans rather than sassy French? Was it due to the...
by Lorraine Stallworth | Jan 5, 2021 | Art, Paintings, Portrait Painting
Serov was an outstanding Russian portrait painter of the alternate period of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. And he was an important representative of Russian realism painting at the beginning of this century. Born into a family of music composers and...
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