![]() A work such as the Starn 'Twins' Nipples' takes a well-known image drawn from the sixteenth century and updates it into one that is sexually charged with provocative implications. 1961), the nude human form is a recurrent obsession of American artists. For Eakins, photographs were just one more technique, provided by science, that he could use to make his paintings better.įrom early academic nudes in a European tradition by John Trumbull (1756-1843), Washington Allston (1779-1843), and Benjamin West (1738-1820) to the more candid and unapologetically naturalistic nudes of Eakins and the sensual figures of John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) and from the Pop humor of a Tom Wesselmann (1931-2004) to the wit and historical irony of the painter twins Doug Starn and Mike Starn (b. In his Naked Series of photographs, Eakins attempted to produce a definitive resource for himself and other artists by making pictures that cataloged nude human body types and poses. ForĮakins, the nude was both a personal interest and an important academic discipline that he brought back from Paris to a country ambivalent toward the human body. Real world as he saw it - are like precisely built models. The works he produced - beautiful paintings of the He studied and used science he was smart, curious and insatiable. Eakins (1844-1916) was a kind of Leonardo da Vinci for the modern world. Thomas Eakins, perhaps the most impressive painter of the nude working in the United States in the 1870s and 1880s, received little recognition and earned his living by teaching until he was dismissed from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts for presenting a nude male model in a class that included female students. Americans lead by Thomas Eakins (1844-1916) cherished the nude as the basic building block for the development of young artists. The cubist and surrealists stretched and strained the figure to its visual limits in the early part of the 20th Century. ![]() The Pre-Raphaelites of the late 1900s rejoiced in the sensuality of the human form. The painters of the Renaissance carried the classical notion of the nude onto the painted canvas. ![]() Early Greeks and Romans established the classical standards for sculpting the human figure. It could be said that the beginning of all art is the human figure. Ancient civilizations were replete with sexual or erotic imagery, and their relationship to sex and the human body is clear. Ever since artists began creating art, they have incorporated sexual themes into their work.
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