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COME JOIN US ON GOVERNOR’S ISLAND!
This September TheGreatNude will host a SMALL WORKS exhibition at the Governor's Island Art Fair. The art fair will be open to the public every Saturday and Sunday, September 4th - 26th, 11am - 6pm. We will be located in Building #12, Section H, Room 4 on the second floor. Getting there by ferry is EASY and FREE from Battery Park or Brooklyn.
Sketch Session: 1-3pm
During the opening weekend, we will be hosting drawing demonstrations featuring some of our exhibiting artists drawing from a nude model. The public is invited to participate. Click here for details>
Don't forget, we have a great interview with one of our exhibiting artists Carole Feuerman coming soon, only subscribers will be able to view.
Join our community of artists and art lovers, and help support our efforts to grow this figurative arts publication with an annual subscription. Please click here to SUBSCRIBE> |
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NEW VIDEO
Interview with
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| TGN visits the studio of hyper-realist artist Carole Feuerman, who's uncannily life-like sculptures are not the only surprises we found. (Video posts in August) |
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David LaChapelle
American Jesus
Paul Kasmin Gallery,
July 13 - Sept. 18
293 10th Avenue, New York, New York
Review by Scott Goodwillie
Sometimes it's OK to bite the hand that feeds. Sometimes that hand has a masochist's soul and will reward you greatly if you just dig in! David La Chapelle is one such pit bull now making waves in the contemporary art world with his current body of large scale photographs.
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| •NEW VIDEO• |
| From TheGreatNude Invitational 2010 |
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Daniel Maidman Sketches from the live nude
at TheGreatNude Invitational
Video Length: 7min
Daniel Maidman, one of TheGreatNude Invitational's exhibiting artists, spent the weekend attending our drawing workshops with Sherry Camhy. Continuiing his drawing marathon, Daniel joined our sketch party on Saturday night, and sketched from our two models that evening. We had a chance to ask Daniel some questions on his approach to drawing the figure.
Materials:
Paper: Rives BFK, tan
Pencils: 2B, and Prismacolor White |
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| From TheGreatNude Invitational 2010 |
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Corpus Hermeticum:
Odd Nerdrum on Exhibit
at TheGreatNude Invitational
Curated by Leah Poller
The works of Odd Nerdrum presented in cooperation with the Nerdrum Institute, Norway
Curator/Artist Leah Poller discusses Corpus Hermeticum and exhibiting artist Odd Nerdrum. Additional commentary by fellow exhibiting artists Richard T. Scott, Adam Miller and Fedele Spadafora on their group exhibit at TheGreatNude Invitational and the use of the Nude in their work.
Video Length: 14min
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| From TheGreatNude Invitational 2010 |
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TheGreatNude Invitational
Panel Discussion:
The Nude in Contemporary Art
May 16, 2010
Roger Smith Hotel
On the final day of TheGreatNude Invitational, a panel of renowned artists, curators, critics and writers, join moderator Jeffrey Wiener for a lively, thoughtful and sometimes humorous discussion on the role of the nude in contemporary art.
PANELISTS: Sherry Camhy, Vincent Desiderio, Donald Kuspit, Leah Poller, Richard T. Scott. Moderated by Jeffrey Wiener
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Sail, Stephanie, Mia and Jeremy
New Model shots taken during TheGreatNude Invitational
The models who worked with us at TheGreatNude Invitational completed the community of artists and art lovers that were in attendance. Many found the connection between several of the exhibiting artists and some of our models of comfort, and this helped make our Sketch Parties relaxed and easy for the artists.
See out-takes and stills shot during the events. Use the enlargements as references in your own work.
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The Nudes of Picasso
By Jeff Wiener
When most people are asked to describe an artistic genius, the Spanish artist Pablo Picasso is often cited as an example. In addition to his undeniable creative talents and the large body of excellent work produced in his lifetime, his whole career appears to have been a successful strategy of exploration and risk-taking at just the right moment in history.
Most people associate Picasso with his groundbreaking abstractions of reality, and we are all familiar with the story of an artist emboldened by ambition and natural talent, who changed the definition of art. This is not an article about the journey of an artistic genius through his well-known career. Instead, I'd like to take you on a tour of an artist who used the nude figure to communicate the essence of human nature, and did so with courage and freedom throughout all of the phases of his long career.
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DFN Gallery: Looks Good on Paper
By Jacob King
February 3rd, was the opening night for the newly relocated DFN Gallery. After having previously been located in Soho, and in Chelsea, DFN now takes residence on the Upper East Side, where its contemporary works refresh the local art scene. Several of TheGreatNude staff were in attendance at this very crowded show.
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Art Students League - Drawing Lessons
by Scott Goodwillie
Since its creation in 1875, The Art Students League's faculty and students have been contributors to the New York art scene, and this wonderful exhibition we saw last October, comes from the school's permanent collection of student works. Curated by Pamela Koob, the show includes fifty life drawings by students of Kenyon Cox, H.S. Mowbray, Frank Vincent Dumond, George Bridgeman and others. Collected during the early 20th century, these amazing life drawings feel surprisingly contemporary, owing in part to the quality of the realism that these talented students were expected to achieve under the strict requirements of attendance at the school.
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Rembrandt and His Pupils
By Jacob King
Throughout his career, Rembrandt took on a select group of students and taught them the techniques that he had spent his life perfecting. Because of the numerous works born from the academic environment that he created, many of the works thought to be Rembrandt's are disputed over - whether the works came from Rembrandt himself or from one of his many students, influenced by his style.
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The Figure in Advertising
By Jeffrey Wiener
Over the centuries, the Figure has been a vehicle for communicating the virtues and values of humanity. While the nude was often commandeered for purposes other than art in the commissions of paintings in the past, the use of the figure in advertising is a relatively new phenomenon. Today, with the numerous influences of technology and modern media around us, the use of the figure is as varied as our culture itself. This series of posts will explore some of the best uses of the figure we can find.
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| Two Muses
We've taken two great stills from our upcoming Sketch Sessions video for your artistic reference. We'll also be experimenting with new formats for viewing model references in the near future. Since we're planning more growth for our Model Library in the coming months, we'd like to get some feedback from our subscribers about the development of our artist reference tools going forward.
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Reconfiguring the Body at the National Academy
The role of the human figure in the history of American art is a topic we appreciate here at our publication. In Reconfiguring the Body in American Art, 1820-2009 we see an overview of the figure as used by artists through many phases of history, illustrated with wonderful, eclectic selections from the museum's permanent collection. Pulling together a survey illustrating the evolution of intellectual and aesthetic thought regarding the figure over the last two hundred years is a challenging aspiration for any museum, but that’s exactly what the National Academy set out to do in their summer/fall exhibit.
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The Platonic Ideal: Forum Gallery
Forum Gallery is a favorite gallery to visit in mid-town for lovers of the figure, and it's current exhibit does not disappoint. The Platonic Ideal, running October 1st to November 28th, includes almost thirty painters, sculptors and artists, with many pieces offering contemplations on humanity through the figure. The works fall into three main categories, paintings, sculpture and works on paper, covering contemporary to early 20th century works.
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Forum Gallery is located at
745 5th Ave # 503, New York, NY 10151
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The Figure as "Pin-Up" - Alberto Vargas
By Jacob King
Best known for work that nearly defined the "Pin-up", Alberto Vargas is recognized for depicting and perfecting the image of female sexuality in the first half of the 20th century. Having worked with Esquire and more famously Playboy magazines, some would be quick to write Vargas off as a soft pornographer, and he’s never expressed any shame in that. However, from the perspective of TheGreatNude, Vargas was an artist dedicated to the figure, and produced a body of work that embodied the meaning of female sexuality and in effect became standards of feminine desire for a generation of American men.
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Alice Neel: An Artist for the Woodstock Generation
By Jacob King
This being the 40th anniversary of the "Summer of Love", and of the concert known as Woodstock, The Great Nude felt the need to highlight the nudes of Alice Neel, one of the most independent figurative artists of the twentieth century, and an artist who's work at this time (1960's) reflected some of the social changes rippling through our culture.
By the end of the 1960's Neel's work as an artist was well known and her acceptance by the critics assured. Her career was reaching it's crescendo, with museums and galleries lining up to exhibit her paintings. But it's important to consider that Alice Neel started out as a woman in a man's world under emotionally difficult if not tragic circumstances. And being a female artist who felt compelled to explore the boundaries of gender and politics, she shocked many of her peers and broke taboos with her direct and honest depictions of the nude. Her early life (and her career as an artist) was filled with many obstacles and difficulties.
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| Reuben Negrón: Dirty Dirty Love
Like the Spice Gallery
Brooklyn, NY
June, 2009
Review by Scott Goodwillie
Reuben Negrón's recent exhibit of watercolors at Like the Spice Gallery is a strong display of figurative work seen in a modern, fresh light. Negron's use of the medium is masterful, and he uses figures to creat intimate scenes filled with a warm humanity.
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New York Academy of Art - SUMMER EXHIBITION 2009
New York, New York
June 3, 2009 - August 2, 2009
Review by Jeff Wiener
On a hot summer night, TheGreatNude heads downtown to attend the opening reception for the New York Academy of Art's 3rd Annual Summer Exhibition 2009. This exhibit features over a dozen "Great Nudes" amongst the 123 works produced by the teachers and students of one of the world's best art schools.
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Jacob Collins at John Pence Gallery
John Pence Gallery
San Francisco, CA • May 02 - May 30, 2009
Review by Jacob King
New York based Jacob Collins is now showing at the John Pence Gallery in San Francisco. Collins, a popular realist, is known for large bodies of work in several traditionalist genres. But Collins creates beautiful figurative works that seem timeless while feeling fresh and honest. A prominent member of the Figurative Arts community in New York, Collins is involved with many projects, having founded the Grand Central Academy of Art and the Water Street Atelier, where he holds classes with an intimate selection of students.
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Jacob Collin's "Reclining Nude" on exhibit at the John Pence Gallery in San Francisco. |
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Adult Drawing
A Zoppa Brothers Production
Recorded April 18th, 2009
The Zoppa Brothers' Adult Drawing event features a collection of eclectic and exotic models posing for artists in a hip setting with excellent house music. This is not your grandmother's Art Student’s League sketch class! Featuring the Girls of Burning Angel & Special Guests!
TheGreatNude.tv was there as director Jeffrey Wiener sketched the night away, producing several drawings that will be featured in upcoming Sketch Session tutorial videos.
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Kathleen Gilje
48 Portraits: Sargent's Women, Restored
Kathleen Gilje has been toying with Western Art's use of the figure for most of her career. Gilje's recent body of work, which we saw recently here in New York at Francis M. Naumann Fine Art, is one of the most cohesive statements of her career.
Entitled "48 Portraits: Sargent's Women, Restored", this large collection of paintings created by Gilje features 48 women who were themselves the subjects of the American impressionist painter John Singer Sargent. Sargent had been commissioned to paint these women during his illustrious career as a portrait painter for the wealthy industrialists and upper class of 19th century America. Gilje has stripped the women bare - literally - in an effort to pull these women out of historical anonymity.
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