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Back in 2007, with the launch of TheGreatNude.TV, Carole was kind enough to give me one of the first interviews I taped, inside her large hustle-bustle NYC studio, filled with Nudes and a small army of assistants! Will get that video back up online shortly. Here’s a collection of her sculpted female Nudes that she […]
People who know me, know that I will travel great distances to see a “Great Nude”. Yesterday, all I had to do was travel to Park Slope, Brooklyn on a lovely Spring day to meet Simon Dinnerstein at his charming brownstone home where he works and lives with his family. Simon and I had recently […]
I had the pleasure of having lunch in Catskill, New York last week, at the “New York Restaurant”. Great food, seriously, but the real treat was seeing the drawings of Marina Paulutskaya, which were hanging on the walls of the restaurants interior. Her price list is available at the front, and they are quite reasonable […]
The Great Nude.tv’s “Sketch Sessions” was conceived in the early days of the magazine, with an eye toward the Reality Shows that were being produced at that time. Staged in the small studio apartment where the magazine’s staff worked, and the publisher resided, four sessions were produced with the model Amy, a circus performer from […]
(Originally Published Sept, 2011) 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 […]
FIGURATIVE ARTISTS… Stop expecting social media companies to help you, they will CENSOR YOUR NUDES and GET YOU BANNED. Marketing your figurative nudes has now gotten easier! TheGreatNude.tv provides three SMART WAYS to promote your Figurative Arts career. Start attracting visitors to your website with “Good SEO” tactics: Post videos about your work on TheGreatNude.TV […]
I actually had a Hand in this documentary! Just my hand, drawing a model…, but what a performance! Many of you Movie Fans might be familiar with Chelsea Bonestell’s fantastic backdrop paintings for the Hunchback of Notre Dame, Citizen Kane, and War of the Worlds. And, some SciFi Fans might know that this talented artist […]
A springtime visit to New York City gave me the opportunity to drop in on some of the “local” arts venues and galleries of mid-town. The Manhattan Art & Antiques Center was just downstairs from our AirBnB, and it offers several hours of discovery. Check out the gallery of photos I took from my visit.
This last October, on a crisp autumn evening, a handful of figurative artists gathered in a lushly renovated brownstone on a tree-lined street in upper Harlem. Janet A Cook, Costa Vavagiakis, Patricia Watwood, and Jeffrey Wiener joined Leah Poller, the host of this Halloween-inspired drawing event which featured model Sarah Schoofs as our Shaman guide. This intimate […]
TheGreatNude’s Member Artists are in some instances world-class teachers on top of exhibiting professionals. Take Patricia Watwood for example. This busy artist is always on the go. This month, you’ll find her on the faculty and giving demos at the Figurative Arts Convention and Expo (#FACE18) in Coral Gables, Florida this November 7-10th, 2019. Visit […]
TheGreatNude is now offering a mobile “Drawing Salon” to promote and support Galleries and Art Events that feature Figurative Artists. A well-produced Drawing Salon in your gallery is a fresh, creative way to bring new collectors into your space and introduce them to artists you represent. A Drawing Salon in your gallery offers your own Collectors […]
TheGreatNude, an online video magazine focused on the Figurative Arts, celebrates it’s 10th Anniversary this year. Launched in 2007, the collection of content at www.TheGreatNude.TV is an expanding “media library” designed to promote The Nude in modern culture. Inspired by a desire to document and promote the contemporary figurative artists in New York City, TheGreatNude […]
Here’s an interesting NYTimes arts video featuring some of the pioneering female artists like Bernstein, Betty Tompkins, Juanita McNeely and Joan Semmel, best known for their paintings, and multidisciplinary artists like Schneemann and Valie Export.
Lately, some of my male artist friends have been confiding to me that they are feeling like pariahs in the art world. And boy, do I get it. From my vantage point, I see that the general public’s taste for the Nude is souring. What I’ve been calling “The Great Nude” is simply not […]
Unfortunately, we live in a country of Absurdity and Hypocrisy. We voraciously consume porn videos and accept just about anything sexually provocative in our advertising and entertainment. Yet out of some kind of fear – or loathing – we cannot display a nude human depicted in paint. I do not understand this place. Scotty, beam […]
http://youtu.be/6GBjPJILtEg In this episode of Sketch Sessions, publisher/artist Jeffrey Wiener takes on the challenge of recreating Gustav Courbet’s Bacchante in pencil with a live model in the studio. The challenge of the figure is not the end of this video. Watch the whole video to see the landscape portion get created.
Figure Drawing at The MET (for Mobile Devices) • December 6, 2015 – 2-4pm • Instructor: Jeffrey Wiener • This Class will use the figurative sculptures at the MET to teach basic techniques for sketching the Figure using several popular APPS. Students will learn how to Draw and Paint on their devices, and how to […]
Figurative Complexity • John Belardo has sculptures and drawings on exhibit at the Romano Gallery at the Blair Academy – October 27 to November 28. Check out one of John’s beautiful works here. Romano Gallery Armstrong-Hipkins Center for the Arts Blair Academy, Blairstown, NJ 07825 Hours: Monday – Saturday, 10 AM – 6 PM or by appointment, […]
Submerge • New Photography Series and Video by Cheryl Maeder • Submerge explores the relationship we human beings have with the environment, both in the personal and the universal context. We, as living beings, are not separate from the Earth. The human body contains 70% of water fluids and the oceans waters cover more than […]
TheGreatNude presents A Celebration of Life Drawing November 12-15, 2015 An Exhibition of Figurative Artworks with Life Drawing Events Jay Gould Townhouse • 179 Sullivan Street, New York, New York Exhibiting: Sherry Camhy, Janet A. Cook, Leah Poller, John Wellington, Jeffrey Wiener Join us for a weekend of art inspired by Life Drawing as five […]
This drawing workshop is designed to teach any student how to use the iPad (or any other mobile device) to do quick figurative studies from the live model. Students will also be taught several specific drawing techniques that will allow them to create final, polished drawings and paintings for print that are suitable for sale. […]
I’ve always found this painting by Andrew Wyeth fascinating. Not so much because it is a beautiful painting, and presents us with one of the most mysterious models that is familiar to most Americans. I found this painting most interesting because it presents us with a young woman that obviously has a disability that expresses […]
(1452-1519): An Italian High Renaissance Painter and Inventor, Leonardo was a Florentine Renaissance man, a genius, an artist in all media, an architect, a brilliant military engineer. And perhaps the most brilliantly creative man in European history.
These three paintings are from the “Shared Spaces” series that I began in the mid-nineties. There’s many psychological and intimate portraits in that collection, people I know, couples, pairs. It’s mostly drawings, but the origin of this series were these several figurative works painted exclusively in “Pthalo” Blue and Ultra-Marine acrylics. The larger works are […]