Art Gallery

[ShadowWolf]

The detail of these pieces of art is amazing! What really captures my eye is the models and then the representation of the models by the artists.

 

[phlebas]

art for art's sake

 

[phlebas]

Now that's what I call art, has a plague theme to it seems.
Unfortunately I don't remember where I found it

 

[phlebas]

The artist and his muse

1 of 2

 

[phlebas]

2 of 2

 

[foggybottom]

Images of Martyrs

Barbara of Nicomedia Eulalia of Barcelona_MeridaSt. Alicia ST SEBASTIANA

 

[bobinder]

Images of Martyrs
St. Alicia ST SEBASTIANA

Thanks Foggy - do you have any information on the artists for the last two manips, please?

 

[phlebas]

Modern artistic nudes

 

[phlebas]

Art model

 

[foggybottom]

Art model

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Those are great, thanks phlebas. There are a few videos on YouTube with that subject. Wish I had that talent but I could only look at her and drool.

 

[willowfall]

Art model

I always find it a little hypocritical when people decry "pornography" (even something as innocuous as Playboy) yet a "model" stripping down for "art" is not only fine but a worthy pursuit.

It's a girl taking off her clothes for money so that you can ogle it whether it is in a magazine, on the internet or at the local art museum;

Get over yourselves (mom).

kisses

willowfall

ps: The "mom" reference was my mom. She always decried porn and hounded my brothers if she found them with a Playboy but but it was ok for my stepdad (who made his living, and a decent one, as a professional artist) to paint nudes in his art classes and the girls were 'artist's models' not 'porn girls'.

 

[Naraku]

I always find it a little hypocritical when people decry "pornography" (even something as innocuous as Playboy) yet a "model" stripping down for "art" is not only fine but a worthy pursuit.

It's a girl taking off her clothes for money so that you can ogle it whether it is in a magazine, on the internet or at the local art museum;

Get over yourselves (mom).

kisses

willowfall

ps: The "mom" reference was my mom. She always decried porn and hounded my brothers if she found them with a Playboy but but it was ok for my stepdad (who made his living, and a decent one, as a professional artist) to paint nudes in his art classes and the girls were 'artist's models' not 'porn girls'.

It's a thin line, that, like beauty, is often in the eye of the beholder.

Back in the days before Playboy, the only access most Americans had to nude photos was in so called "Art Magazines".

 

[willowfall]

Back in the days before Playboy, the only access most Americans had to nude photos was in so called "Art Magazines".

Or the occasional National Geographic that was covering tribal societies in the more remote parts of the world

kisses

willowfall

 

[Apostate]

It's a thin line, that, like beauty, is often in the eye of the beholder.

Back in the days before Playboy, the only access most Americans had to nude photos was in so called "Art Magazines".
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Gay Talese's "Thy Neighbor’s Wife"

Thy Neighbor's Wife (book) - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

is a history of the Sexual Revolution up to just before AIDS got loose. I read it in late in Reagan’s second term, and this lady was in it.



I seem to remember she and her husband were early recruits to the cause starting in the 1950’s, but the details are hazy. At this point I should excavate my copy and refresh my memory, but I am a lazy man.

 

[Apostate]

Or the occasional National Geographic that was covering tribal societies in the more remote parts of the world

kisses

willowfall

Not only the native women, but the naked slave girls of Ancient Rome.

 

[Apostate]

Thoroughly zapped my middle school libido.

 

[foggybottom]

It's a thin line, that, like beauty, is often in the eye of the beholder.

Back in the days before Playboy, the only access most Americans had to nude photos was in so called "Art Magazines".
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I had been known to frequent those publications.

 

[messaline]

Art model

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Generally, when you are an art model, you're nude ... I know that, I did ...

 

[Apostate]

Generally, when you are an art model, you're nude ... I know that, I did ...

Pardon me, Miss, but .

 

[ShadowWolf]

Art model

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It is nice to see a warrior woman pose when there are so few of those