Giorgione, Sleeping Venus, 1510
This painting has been credited with actually started the whole genre of “reclining nudes” thing. So you can thank Giorgione and his master brushwork for all of those sexy reclining ladies.
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Dappled and soft.Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Nude in the Sunlight, 1876
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Pietro Testa, Allegory of Winter, 1644
Essentially a clusterfuck of allegorical figures by the little known Italian Renaissance artist Pietro Testa. Bonus: the old woman with the saggy boobs is a figure of time!
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Hatshepsut, ca. 1473-1459 BCE
One of the most successful female Pharaohs in Ancient Egyptian history.
Some German street art by the artist Tasso! Some contemporary shit.
Gustav Klimt, Danae, 1907
Keeping in theme with the other Danae I blogged about by Titian, this Danae portrays a woman as very sexualized, having intercourse with Zeus in the form of a golden shower (here flowing from between her legs). Klimt’s talent lay in depicting women. Sexiest Danae ever.
Marcel Duchamp, Nude Descending a Staircase, no. 2, 1912
Yes, this is my second post about Marcel Duchamp. Stop bitching and embrace the love. It’s probably because he is one of the best and most fascinating, risk-taking artists ever. I’ll stop gushing and start talking now.
This painting, which references a nude in the title, might not actually contain a nude. While most scholars consider this arrangement of cubes and spheres to depict motion and movement merging into itself, some maverick art historians have called the traditional interpretation into question. Nevertheless, it’s a beautiful, flowing composition. It merges cubism and futurism (probably the rawest movements in art history) seamlessly, like a motherfucker.
On the bottom left, the caption ”NU DESCENDENT UN ESCALIER” (and it don’t take a fucking rocket scientist to figure what that means in French) is written in large block letters. It’s interesting, because the word “Nude” is in the male form. Most nudes in art were women, and the curving lines of this abstract figure call to mind some titties more than a dude’s body. Whatever it is, it’s a graceful painting, and reads like poetry.
This painting was rejected over five times from various galleries before Duchamp got to exhibit it. Yeah, Duchamp was a badass.
