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 […]
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Max Pechstein Died 71 Years Ago Today. He Made the Nude the One Honest Thing in a Dishonest Century.
When Max Pechstein died on June 29, 1955, the obituaries were polite but cautious. He had once been one of
Amedeo Modigliani and the 1917 Police Raid: Why Five Nudes Shut Down His Only Solo Show
\n December 3, 1917. The police arrived at Berthe Weill’s tiny gallery on Rue Taitbout in Paris and ordered the
Pierre Bonnard’s Bathing Nudes: Why He Spent 30 Years Painting the Same Woman in the Same Tub
Pierre Bonnard’s Bathing Nudes: Why He Spent 30 Years Painting the Same Woman in the Same Tub \n\n In the
André Derain Was Born 146 Years Ago Today. How Fauvism Freed the Nude Body.
On June 10, 1880, André Derain was born in Chatou, France. By the time he was twenty-five, he had helped