Andy Warhol Was Born 98 Years Ago Today. His Nudes Changed What the Body Means in Art.
Before the soup cans and the Brillo boxes and the Marilyns, Andy Warhol drew bodies. In the 1950s, as a […]
Art History
Ilya Repin Was Born 182 Years Ago Today. Before the Barge Haulers, There Was the Nude.
Ilya Repin was born on this day, August 5, 1844, in the small Ukrainian town of Chuhuiv. He would become
Nudity vs. Sexuality in Art: Why the Distinction Matters \u2014 and Who Gets to Decide
\n When Kenneth Clark opened The Nude: A Study in Ideal Form with the declaration that “the nude is not
The Life Room: Where the Body Was Practice Before It Was Art
Before the gallery, before the exhibition, before the critics and the collectors and the canon — there was a room
Contrapposto: The Pose That Taught the West How to Look at the Body
Before contrapposto, the human body stood stiffly in art. Two feet planted flat, weight evenly distributed, spine a rigid vertical.
The Vanishing Male Nude: How Art History’s Most Important Body Became Its Most Invisible
Walk through any major museum and count the nudes. If you started in the Greek and Roman galleries, you would
Jean Dubuffet Was Born 125 Years Ago Today. His Corps de Dames Made the Female Nude Brutal — and That Was the Point.
Jean Dubuffet was born on this day, July 31, 1901, in Le Havre. The son of wine merchants, he would
Henry Moore Was Born 128 Years Ago Today. How His Reclining Nudes Changed What a Human Body Could Be.
On July 30, 1898, a boy was born in a cramped miner’s cottage in Castleford, Yorkshire, who would spend the
Vincent van Gogh Died 136 Years Ago Today. What He Taught Us About the Human Body.
Vincent van Gogh died on July 29, 1890 — 136 years ago today. He was 37. The mythology is familiar:
Marcel Duchamp Was Born 139 Years Ago Today. How Nude Descending a Staircase Changed What a Body Could Be in Art.
On July 28, 1887 — 139 years ago today — Henri-Robert-Marcel Duchamp was born in Blainville-Crevon, Normandy. He would grow