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Down-under nudes For a portfolio of life drawings and fantasy erotica by a contemporary Australian artist specializing in nudes,  to 'Gamboge Bluegum' art page. |
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 'The Wave' by William Bouguereau  'Biblis' by William Bouguereau |
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The human body has had universal appeal for artists at least since "The Willendorf Venus" was carved 24,000 years ago. That earliest female nude featured prominent breasts, buttocks and vulva and has obvious sexual significance. |
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 William BouguereauThis French "Academic" painter of the late 19th Century was out of fashion for many years, because he resisted the innovations of the Impressionists and other modernists. As the advent of photography spurred artistic pioneers to move toward abstraction, ultra-realistic painters like Bouguereau refined their technical skills to create ever more lifelike pictures. Few have ever equalled his mastery of the tones and textures of human skin. As these examples show, we lovers of the female nude still thank him. |
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 'Bather' |
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 'The Return of Spring' |
| Click on images to view larger versions of these paintings. |  'Seated Bather' |
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 'The Pain of Love' |
 'Bathers' |
 'Girl Defending Herself Against Love' |
 'Nymphaeum' |
 'Nymphs and Satyr' |
Gustave CourbetActive a generation earlier than his fellow Frenchman Bouguereau, Courbet was the "bad boy" of the Paris art world in his time. He shocked the establishment with the frank eroticism of his paintings, including the undisguised lesbianism of "Sleep." Some of his best works no longer exist; at least one was bought by a pious prude so it could be destroyed! Courbet's most scandalous works were openly pornographic, notably "Origin of the World." This remarkable work of art was produced for a private client and never exhibited publicly in Courbet's lifetime.Click on images to view larger versions of these paintings.
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 'Sleeping Nude'  'Sleep'  'Woman with Parrot' |
The artist as pornographerCourbet's model is said to have been the mistress of James McNeill Whistler, the expatriate American painter. So we might think of an alternative title for this pleasant scene as "Whistler's Lover."  For me, this picture represents an artistic precedent for one of my basic ideas. That is, it's legitimate to honor and admire the sex organs that are, in fact, the origin of everything alive. Sex, in essence, is the life force. Pornography that respects that fact is life-affirming. |
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Francisco Goya was a subversive presence in the conservative world of 18th and 19th-Century Spain.
During the upheavals of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars, Goya produced a series of politically charged
paintings, including the series called "The Disasters of War." Between the satirical works of his middle years and
dark, fantastic paintings of his old age, Goya has been called a forerunner of the artistic
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Francisco Goya's "Naked Maja" from 1800 led to the "Clothed Maja" three years later. to larger version. |
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It was Goya's shocking nude painting from around 1800, "La maja desnuda," that created the
greatest uproar. Unlike other nudes, he didn't attempt to cloak its sexually alluring subject in mythological or
allegorical meaning. She was simply a beautiful woman, totally naked, gazing directly at the viewer. His model may have been the Duchess of Alba, who is believed to have been one of Goya's lovers. In spite of outraged public opinion, Goya refused to |
By the 1930s the Spanish government (pre-Franco) had honored "Naked Maja" with a postage stamp. But prudes in the United
States Post Office refused to allow any mail carrying this stamp to enter the U.S.! |
 This Goya drawing from 1796 is titled "Two Nude Young Women on a Bed." It raises intriguing questions about the artist's relationship to these two. Click on image to see larger version. |
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paint clothing on his "Maja." But three years
later, he produced a second painting, "La maja vestida," or "The Clothed Maja." It was the same woman in the
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with her body still forthrightly depicted in all its curves. The Spanish Inquisition declared both paintings obscene and confiscated them in 1813. They were returned to their owner more |
than 20 years later. We can only imagine how much pleasure these forbidden paintings gave to the officially celibate priests of the Inquisition during their years in the church's care. |
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20th-Century nudes in AmericaAlthough many 20th-Century art movements scorned realism, a healthy segment of the art community continued to refine the female nude. Influenced by George Petty's and Alberto Varga's nude and semi-nude "Esquire" pin-up paintings, World War II aircraft "Nose Art" also helped keep popular images of the female body alive and well in mainstream American culture.French painter Paul Chabas' romantic nude "September Morning" won him a medal at the 1912 Paris Salon. Its American debut made it world-famous, and a symbol of a liberalized attitude toward nude art. A savvy New York City art dealer put the painting in his gallery window and manipulated the notorious prude Anthony Comstock of the Society for the Suppression of Vice into trying to ban the painting. This manufactured controversy guaranteed widespread public and media attention.  'September Morn' by Paul Chabas, 1912 Soon this charming image of a naked beauty standing in water showed up on calendars, postcards, advertisements and trinkets of every kind. The controversy generated jokes including this ditty: "Please don't think I'm bad or bold, but where it's deep it's awwful cold." |
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Mature women Youth does not have a monopoly on beauty. We offer some thoughts on the appeal of the naked older woman, and links to galleries of some very sexy photographs.
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Naked pagans Some of the world's oldest religions praise and honor the human body, and celebrate our sexual nature. This is a look at the pagan origins of what we now call pornography.
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