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Three female artists who shaped the American Pin-Up
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | 27 days ago
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While most people today associate pin-up art with male artists like Alberto Vargas, George Petty, and Gil Elvgren, the contributions of these women are every bit as important, and their work every bit as good. For her article, associate editor Lisa
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Art not for art’s sake
New York City :: NY :: USA | 1 month ago
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Sun 19 May 2013 Gerome's The Slave Market, left; response by Iraqi woman artist, right Before Edward Said revitalized the term Orientalism in his seminal 1978 book of the same title, the major use of the term was for a genre of Western art ,
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From curvy silhouettes of the 1860's to very long legs in the 1960's: Vintage photos chronicle 100 years of erotic pin-up girls
New York City :: NY :: USA | 1 month ago
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The face of pornography has changed dramatically since 1860, a quarter of a century before mainstream photographic film was pioneered by George Eastman. From a glamor girl's curvy silhouette, to her long legs and voluptuous figure, the pin-up was
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Edouard Manet's Italian soul on show in Venice
Venice :: Italy | 1 month ago
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While 19th-century French realist Edouard Manet's love for Spanish art is well documented, curators in Venice have decided to turn the spotlight towards Italy and focus on the heavy influence of the Italian Renaissance on his work. An exhibit at the
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Bright, bold and buxom: Dorothy Iannone's sexually expressive art on show for first time
London :: United Kingdom | 3 months ago
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some images are sexually explicit Artist Dorothy Iannone brings her bold, expressive work to London this spring for her first major exhibition in the UK. The show includes her work from the 1970s and 80s, along with more recent pieces made in the
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French villagers help government raise i¿½4million to buy back famous Courbet painting 'The Oak of Flagey'
Tōkyō :: Japan | 3 months ago
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10 March 2013 Villagers from the birthplace of 19th century painter Gustave Courbet have clubbed together with the French government to raise 4million to buy back one of his paintings. 'The Oak of Flagey', unveiled at the Courbet Museum today,
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T Magazine: Like Father, Like Daughter
Paris :: France | 4 months ago
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Like Father, Like Daughter Oh you're going to shoot in Olympia's new apartment? asks Pierre Le-Tan, one of France's most renowned illustrators...There would be plenty for Olympia, Pierre's 35-year-old handbag-designer daughter, to choose from: his 1,
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New Museum Puts Sex in the Spotlight
Paris :: France | 4 months ago
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February 13, 2013 (Issue # 1746) A new Erotic Museum is opening in St...The Museros museum of erotic art will open its doors on Feb. 14, making it the citys first museum entirely dedicated to the history, art and aesthetics of sex.
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Formed from the fantasies of men
Damascus :: Syria | 4 months ago
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Women have inspired artists for as long as there's been art, acting as muses and models for artists' visions of the feminine. As an exhibition now up at the British Museum confirms, Ice Age sculptors were fond of depicting the form of bountiful
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Gustave Courbet's The Origin of the World still over-excites art critics
New York City :: NY :: USA | 4 months ago
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Jacky Naegelen/Reuters "Courbet regularly painted female nudes, sometimes in a frankly libertine vein. But in The Origin of the World he went to lengths of daring and frankness which gave his painting its peculiar fascination. The almost anatomical
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