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I tend to focus on portraits and paintings and such like, but sometimes a pattern like this is too beautiful to pass up.
Front cover from The lady of the lake, by Walter Scott, illustrated by Charles Edmund Brock. London, 1904.
(Source: archive.org)
thistles make the prettiest patterns
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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
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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (French, 1864-1901), M. de Lauradour, 1897. Oil and gouache on cardboard. The William S. Paley Collection. SPC79.1990, Museum of Modern Art, New York.
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Deevie, 2012, oil on panel, 60″ x 40″ by Aaron Smith
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Jeezer, 2011, oil on panel, 28" x 24" by Aaron Smith
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Blower, 2011, oil on panel, 20" x 20" by Aaron Smith
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Frank Duveneck – Henry James, Sr., about 1881
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Painting by Degas
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William Mulready: Academy Study 1846, reworked 1857.
From a portrait at London’s National Portrait Gallery