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Tumblr is dying
And these images are why Tumblr is still broken, dying 6 weeks later AND the appeals process is bullshit. Some of you might know about Tumblr’s laughable attempt to expunge adult contentfrom their system using AI. That I moved the really ‘adult’ and pron-tastic ‘Retire To The Parlour’ blog to this server as a result.
I appealed all these laughable ‘adult’ tags and they are STILL not sorted. According to Tumblr’s own new TOS, drawings, artworks and illustrations of nudity are fine. Doesn’t stop them still flagging my life drawings as ‘porn’ though.Even in the one photographhere, there is NO genitalia shown, apart from one that you’d need a magnifying glass to see anything!. It’s a photo of a male sauna, so any ‘obscenity’ is in the eye of the beholder, there is no sex happening there.
Really, Tumblr is full of shit.
They promised the bot would get ‘better’ on our dime as WE taught our censor masters as the test dataset of our work. Originally the system flagged a completely dressed man in a bowler hat and a close-up of a Holbein painting. Arbeit macht frei, indeed. Fuck off Tumblr, your censor bot is a mistake. It still doesn’t work, and your appeal system still leaves perfectly fine artworks and photos on the chopping block.
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Robert Jakob Bock
I’m doing a lot of life drawing at the moment, hence the focus on nudes. I know only what is repeated at the link about this artist, but love the lines and abstract shading, a man after my own heart!
via Robert Jakob Bock 1896 – 1943: Various Drawings and Prints from the Artist’s Estate -
Hermann Hanaczek
Hermann Hanaczek, 1873? drawing / academic nude.
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Power of that moustache
Again another academic nude drawing from Academic Nudes blog – no info on this one apart from it’s mid-late 19th Century.
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An old photo of a formless ghost I reblogged is being flagged! This is madness.
Oh… and a painting of hands
-a photograph of some woods
-a Rossetti painting
-a Gericault painting of a fully clothed painter
– a picture of a living room,
-George IV riding a horse
-an illustration from Dickens’ Barnaby Rudge
-a midshipman’s uniform
-a window
I’ll add these have been flagged on this very blog:
– A fully clothed picture of a Victorian man in a top hat
– Two Holbein portraits. He only did clothed people and faces!
– A photo of Matisse drawing a naked male abstract greek statue, a Kouros. Not sexual at all.
– Two men wrestling in shorts – that was an illustration too
– A drawing of Nietzsche naked but no genitalia shown
– A life drawing of a man but again no genitalia shown
– Nicoletto da Modena etching of a Triton (again, not even a human bottom half so no genitalia)
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A dapper Matisse drawing a Kouros (a greek male youth) in the Louvre, 1932. Note no stools, no massive drawing pad or equipment, just a small pad and pencil (people who clog up the National Gallery or Tate trying to create their masterpieces please take note). Credit unknown.
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Matisse at work on an illustration for his book, Ulysses, 1953. No credit either and this is from the (official?) Henri Matisse site….I do look for credits for ALL images, as a photographer it pisses me off when things of mine are reposted without credit. But even with Google Image search you can call a blank quite often.
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Mikhail Vrúbel (Russian, 1856-1910), Self-Portrait, 1904-05. Charcoal and sanguine on paper mounted on cardboard, 35.5 x 29.5 cm. The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.
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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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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
