Naked Art: Explicit Works by Contemporary Artists. The eternal beauty of the female nude body in a wooden sculpture
Hi all! And again Dmitry Derevorez is in touch with you. The time has come to touch upon the most ancient sources of human perception of beauty. What has excited the imagination of artists since the most primitive dark times? What did the first man see as perfection, creating primitive idols for veneration, and then simply for his own aesthetic pleasure? Of course, only beautiful female image was able to awaken the fire of creativity in a very young human soul. And for many millennia now female beauty continues to inspire artists and sculptors to create unique masterpieces of art.
How many magical, gentle, languidly refined and innocent sculptures were born in delight and admiration for the impeccability of the forms of the beautiful half of humanity! A true master, working on a nude sculpture, seems to be writing a hymn to the perfection of a woman. And the aesthetics of girlish curves resembles a melody that fascinates, captivates and delights without the slightest hint of vulgarity.
The Special Life of a Nude Wood Sculpture
A naked female figure made of wood is distinguished from sculptures made of other materials by its special warmth and spirituality. Looking at the perfect curves of the Greek beauty, the coldness of marble and bronze is clearly felt. But just look! In addition to the subtlety of lines and sensual grace, wooden feminine beauty breathes with the power of living material. The wooden maiden seems to have retained the warmth and responsiveness of the master’s hands and now radiates with the gift of life.
Well, how can we not remember the beautiful Galatea, who came to life under the skillful chisel of Pygmalion?
The look of a real artist
Each master puts into his work his own idea of beauty, endless charm and perfection female body. Many strive to convey the aesthetics of female nature through a style solution. For example, through exaggerated minimalism and soft, fluid stylization.
Or outright naturalism, hyperrealism and clarity of image.
And sometimes through the creation of a completely new “magical realism”
Some people see the elusive similarity between smooth feminine curves and an impeccable musical instrument, as complex and subtle in tuning as the fickle maiden soul.
The texture of the female soul
Some masters rely on texture and artistic technique.
They are the ones who will best tell about the inner idea and depth of the artist’s thoughts. The cracked material of the female body, the pronounced texture of the wood and the unstable, changeable form can symbolize inner pain, spirituality or the windy inconstancy of female nature. And the chiseled girlish figure, directed upward and as if swaying in the wind, is so similar to the flame of a burning candle on its last legs.
The beauty of a woman is multifaceted, and as a source, it is ready to forever saturate the hearts of artists and viewers with inspiration. And today, I hope you, too, have thoroughly enjoyed this unstoppable flow of aesthetic perfection, splendor and impeccable purity.
It is beautiful in itself, and if the master was able to professionally convey the grace of the feminine in wood carving nudity, then this is the height of perfection and a claim to masterpiece....
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Let's take a look at 7 more artists who create their art using the naked human body.
In one of her most famous performances, entitled “Rhythm 0,” Abramović stood motionless in the center of the hall. The spectators had at their disposal a variety of objects that caused pleasure or pain, which they could dispose of according to their wishes. at will and do whatever you want with the motionless Marina Abramovich. The performance ended with the artist’s clothes torn and her body covered with many cuts and thorns from roses.
At the performance, entitled “Relationships in Space,” a naked Abramovich and her lover twirled and beat each other until they were completely exhausted, trying to show what a serious relationship between a man and a woman leads to. Another shocking trick by Abramovich was the idea of placing naked people at the entrance to the exhibition in such a way that visitors had to squeeze between them.
At one of the last events, the artist came out completely naked in the center of Cologne with a poster « Respect us! We are not targets of attack, even when naked!”, thus expressing their attitude towards migrants attacking civilians. However, back in 2014, she became famous for her performance, in which she painted with her vagina. Muare pumped up chicken eggs paint using a syringe, placed them in her vagina and dropped them from a height onto the canvas. The result is a painting in the genre of abstract painting.
In addition, the artist ridiculed the love of many inhabitants of the Earth for selfies, inviting ordinary people in Paris and Berlin to take pictures with her in the city center. Muare was photographed, of course, naked.
Poppy Jackson
Poppy Jackson once sat on a London rooftop for four hours. According to her, with this action she wanted to bring people out of virtual reality V real life. As Jackson said, correspondence on social networks has replaced normal communication between people, and in order to bring “intimacy” back into life, she staged this performance. Indeed, Londoners could take a break from the monitor for a while and admire the naked body of Poppy Jackson through the window.
Casey Jenkins
Feminist Casey Jenkins rose to fame with her vaginal knitting in an Australian gallery. For a month, she pushed the ball into herself every day wool threads and knitted a sweater from them, without taking breaks even during menstruation. Thus, the artist tried to speak out against, in her opinion, society’s incorrect perception of female genital organs. Casey Jenkins believes that women shouldn’t be ashamed and hide them bashfully.
Spencer Tunick
The American artist is known primarily for his large-scale performances, which sometimes involve thousands of naked people. His record-breaking event was in Mexico City in 2007, for which the artist managed to gather 18 thousand volunteers. Then almost the entire Constitution Square of the Mexican capital was filled naked people. At the same time, for your installation from human bodies Tunic had his volunteers curl up in a fetal position on the ground.
Sarah Small
The artist’s most famous event was the production of Tableau Vivant, which can be translated as “living picture.” About 120 people of different genders, nationalities, ages and weight categories took part in the performance, most of whom were completely naked. At the same time, the artist was partly the creator musical series, and also played in the production main role. Living picture Sarah Small reminded many of both the works of the surrealists and the works of Bosch.
Hilda Kron Hughes
One of the performances of the Norwegian artist Hilda Krohn Hughes, whose works were seen at the Bloomberg new art exhibition, turned into an embarrassment. To make the video installation, Hughes turned on the camera, climbed a tree in the forest and hung from it on a rope, head down. However, Hughes was unable to extricate herself, so she had to hang in this way for more than three hours until she was finally rescued. Despite the fact that the performance did not go as planned, the artist did not lose her head and came up with a new concept for her installation, which, according to Hughes, now demonstrated the powerlessness of the artist, which is the key to understanding true art.
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(for beginning artists)
There are a lot of tutorials for the beginning artist on how to draw a nude human figure. In them you will find a dozen nude images with an offer to copy them using pastel, or pencil, or watercolor paints, or oil. It is believed that if you have done these mediocre exercises and copied 10 drawings of naked women from the book, then you can now freely draw women from life, paint nude paintings, and independently draw a naked female figure from your imagination. However, this is far from true; drawing nudes is one of the most difficult painting lessons. Even many seasoned artists will not be able to draw a naked female body in five minutes. But if you have mastered this art, then drawing a naked figure will become such a simple and familiar thing for you that you will actually be able to draw nudes in large quantities and make decent money from it.
Throw away all the manuals and look at the illustration for the article “Nude No. 38”. Do you like the picture? I think you can’t help but like it because I wrote it a true master nude, artist Mark Kazavchinsky from Canada. You can go to his website and see other samples. Such things are in great demand, so the artist can even run his own gallery, which is not very often the case. Do you want to learn how to create the same paintings? Let's figure out how it is made and learn how.
For the lesson you must have acrylic paints, oil pastel, thick paper and two brushes: one thin, the other wider. It is not forbidden to try in any other technique, but you should remember that with with a simple pencil or ballpoint pen you won't succeed. So, we collected necessary materials and let's get started.
1) First, create a warm abstract background of the painting with paints. You should take two close colors and work with them, as was done in the picture. For example, take red and light brown colors and more of them light shades. There should be no coastline, no sea, no sofas or couches in the background - all this destroys the picture. The background should be absolutely abstract - this is now customary in modern painting. At the same time, we must remember that a woman should enter this background as if she were entering her home; she should feel warm, joyful and comfortable there. It is completely wrong to depict a nude figure on a white sheet of paper. Although our perception can invent the missing attribute of the background, this only creates unnecessary tension for the viewer.
2) Examine the background carefully, if general outline you are happy with it. It should give you an idea of what position a naked woman should stand, sit or lie in, and what parts of her body she should reveal. If you have decided on the image of a female figure, ask your model to take the desired position and expose the necessary parts of the body. The model should be in one pose for no more than three minutes, during which time you should have time to apply the drawing to the background you made. Don't force her to pose for hours, it won't lead to anything good. If you don't have a model, then draw from your imagination, just don't copy a naked figure from a book or from a computer screen. Let it be difficult, let your lines remind little real contours female figure, but tell yourself: “I don’t care if it doesn’t work out, I’m just drawing abstract painting! After twenty experiments it will start to work out.
3) To draw a figure, take a light piece oil pastel. Never draw in black! The woman's body should be fundamentally lighter than the background, this way you will create the impression of a living body. It is completely wrong for nudity and limbs to be written out dark color. Look carefully at the picture - there are no lines in the contours of the female figure. dark colors. Only intimate place you can emphasize with a darker color (present in the background) - but that’s all!
4) Now about drawing the figure itself. How to learn to draw such gentle and correct lines Do not draw the outline along the entire body, but draw with short, abrupt lines. Draw them quickly, without thinking, so that each line comes out spontaneously, as if you were running your hand along the corresponding part of the female body. For men, it’s worth practicing with your partner’s body first. In general, you need to practice drawing separate lines of the shoulder, neck, chin, eye, nose, chest, thigh, knee, foot, pelvis, abdomen in all possible variations, so that when drawing the entire figure, these lines appear as if automatically. However, between drawing individual elements the figure should take breaks to realize what happened.
5) After the outline of the nude figure is generally ready, you can strengthen individual lines and also continue working with paints. Never abandon a failed painting, but be sure to finish it. Paint over unsuccessful fragments of the body, introduce elements into the picture that obscure the naked figure. Let some abstract composition remain instead of an imaginary woman, but your experience will continue to live in the subconscious and will soon lead you to Right way. The most important thing is to learn how to draw the chest, neck and stomach, and everything else in the nude female figure is a complement and development of these.
6) What to do next with the painted naked body You definitely need to add something to the picture, because a naked woman should not be alone. It could be a cup, vase, ribbon, etc. The presence of a foreign object in a nude painting gives the work special charm, adds an element of play, and also makes the woman herself animated. Don't miss this moment, because it often happens that a lonely naked girl in a picture looks quite wild if there is no object nearby to divert attention. So, you see that in the picture next to the nude there is also a vase. It’s there for a reason, it’s one of the main requirements of drawing in the nude genre.
7) Now see if everything in your picture is as it should be. Note what specifically you don't like. And then look either in a book or on a computer and find there how other artists solved this problem. Perhaps you failed the face. Look how the same Mark Kazavchinsky draws a face, and keep this in mind for the next time you draw your naked girl again. Or you couldn’t place your hands correctly in the picture. See how other artists have solved the nude woman's hand problem and learn from them. But, again, no need to copy! Copying and adopting experience are two different things. I really hope that when drawing nude female nature, you will do without copying in the future. Be in love feminine nature, which you draw, and not the drawings of other artists or photographs of other photographers.