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
Why Artists Have Been Painting Bathers for 500 Years — and What the Motif Reveals About the Body in Art
There is a quiet conspiracy in Western art history, and it has been running for half a millennium. If you
George Grosz Was Born 133 Years Ago Today. He Drew Berlin’s Naked Truth — and the Body Never Lied.
George Grosz was born on July 26, 1893, in Berlin. He would become one of the most devastating draftsmen of
Thomas Eakins Was Born 182 Years Ago Today. He Risked Everything to Paint the Nude as Truth.
Thomas Eakins was born on July 25, 1844, in Philadelphia, and 182 years later, we still haven’t caught up to
Alphonse Mucha Was Born 166 Years Ago Today. He Made the Nude Body Into Ornament — and Changed Art Forever.
On this day in 1860, in the small Moravian town of Ivančice, a boy was born who would grow up
Before the Nude Was an Idea, It Was a Dissection: How Renaissance Artists Learned Anatomy from Cadavers
When you stand before a Renaissance nude — a Michelangelo ignudo twisting against the Sistine ceiling, a Leonardo study of
Edward Hopper Was Born 144 Years Ago Today. He Reinvented the Nude as a Portrait of American Loneliness.
On July 22, 1882, in the shipbuilding town of Nyack, New York, Edward Hopper was born. He would become the
Lovis Corinth Was Born 168 Years Ago Today. He Painted the Nude Body as a Battlefield.
When we talk about the nude in Western art, we tend to reach for words like ideal, beauty, perfection. Greek
Max Liebermann Was Born 179 Years Ago Today. He Moved the Nude Body from the Salon to the Seashore.
If you know Max Liebermann, you probably know him as the painter of Berlin’s bourgeoisie — the man who chronicled