nudes
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Philip Fleischer (1850-1930) Standing Male Nude (The Model is Johannes Schilling – Instructor in Sculpture at the Dresden Art Academy)
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Unknown artist, 19th century.
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I do sometimes cover old artistic nudity or naturism (no sex please we’re British) in this blog, so if y’all bothered by that then please unfollow/unsub.
I’m loving Academic Nudes for 19th century life drawings and paintings…big part of academic art training in Victorian times was the life model, many studies of men, women and children in the classical mode to help with later work painting and sculpting. When I did art training apart from my foundation this had mostly fallen out of favour…shame because I loved life drawing. I do wonder about the models – it paid well but in the social mores of the time it was frowned upon, although there were many contradictions, it was far from covering ankles of chairs…
Melina Eudoxie Daviau (1874-1961): Academic Male Nudes 1900-1907
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Didn’t realise the one before was a detail…here’s the full version via Academic Nudes
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A sauna
Not many early photographs of saunas…
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Early Cali nudist.
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William Mulready: Academy Study 1846, reworked 1857.
From a portrait at London’s National Portrait Gallery
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May I present to you Mr Alvin Langdon Coburn, photographer.
“My aim in photography is always to convey a mood and not to impart local information. This is not an easy matter, for the camera if left to its own devices will simply impart local information to the exclusiveness of everything else.”
Photographed GBS in the nude, Rodin, Walt Whitman, Edward Carpenter…are you noticing a trend here? All I need is a link to F Holland Day and Gibran and the circle is complete.
EDIT: F Holland Day was his cousin. FFS! It’s so incestuous…he was also married but with that lineage/peer-daddy group, who really knows…
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La Penseur by Alvin Langdon Coburn, 1906 – George Bernard Shaw as you probably haven’t seen him before! Back to Rodin again…he gets everywhere.
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Le Penseur négatif
George Bernard Shaw by Alvin Langdon Coburn, 1906 – an negative from the unpublished photograph from Le Penseur (The Thinker) sessions mentioned in the previous quote.