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The Impressionist Art of Steven Clayton Corry
Steven Clayton Corry is a 59 years old erotic artist from Valencia, California.
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“I am not old, I am just vintage … Full-time gay impressionist painter, pacifist, pot head, atheist, gardener, lover of dogs, trees, flowers, water, Trader Joes, cats that live at other homes, Pro-choice, feminist, ex-postal clerk that went postal, Democrat, anti-war, anti-hate, anti-trash, anti-christian hate, pro – animals, clean air, mountains, beaches, warmth, Spring, nice people…”
More of his enormous collection here.
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James Michael McCracken’s Men
Formally educated, and intrigued with the very nature of life itself, J. Michael plays in many pure forms of paint medium. Currently studying Oils on flat board and prepared paper, with a textural component, which maintains his original artistic style.
J. Michael McCracken has been painting full time for five years. As a hobby he enters at least one juried competition a month, many of which are International and placed within the top three. These awards accompany each painting on the artist’s deviantART. J. Michael has been featured as both writer and artist in articles and publications online and in print.
Though I have focused on the work he’s done with the male form, McCracken is about a lot more than painting men. See more of his work here.
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William Bouguereau
Biography written by Brian Yoder.
As a young man, Bouguereau put himself through the Ecole des Beaux-Arts by keeping books for a wine merchant and coloring lithographic labels for a local grocer. In his spare time, late in the evening, he created drawings from memory. This diligence and discipline resulted in an extraordinarily productive artistic life. Bouguereau produced more than seven hundred finished works and achieved a remarkable level of public acclaim and financial success. He never forgot his difficult early days, however; working secretly, he assisted young artists who were struggling as he had to pursue an artistic career in the face of financial difficulties.
Like many painters of the second half of the 19th century, Bouguereau made a careful study of form and technique and steeped himself in classical sculpture and painting. True to his serious and industrious nature, he worked deliberately and industriously: before beginning a painting he would master the history of his subject and complete numerous sketches.
The tenderness with which he portrayed children and domestic scenes, his technical skill and passion for the classics, and his love of rich color are hallmarks of Bouguereau’s exquisite paintings.
Nymphs and Satyr
There can be little doubt that Bouguereau was one of the most talented painters of his time, but it is a shame that he has fallen into obscurity with museum curators and those supposedly sophisticated about art who think that ugliness and lack of content imply depth and talent.
The Bathers
Body Art by Dmitry Dmitriev
If you haven’t already guessed, Dmitry is Russian. And Russia is famous for beautiful men. Whether it’s winning a war against impossible odds, the arts, or human sensuality, the Russians are second fiddle to no one. I got my first taste of Russian talent during the Communists era, when I was fortunate enough to have very good seats at a performance by the Bolshoi Ballet. Of the many Ballets I have seen in my lifetime, the Bolshoi was by far the most breathtaking. To see more of Dmitry’s work, use the link below.
If anything defines Dmitry’s work, it is the diversity and profusion of techniques and disciplines used to express, from photography, to body-painting, to drawing and painting, all done with incredible artistic skill.
Dmitry has published his work in several magazines, and has held two exhibitions in Moscow (Hometown): “Naked World” in May 2008 and “Necropolis” in October 2008 and has also participated with great success (third place) in the body painting contest conducted within the International Beauty Festival Costa in Moscow, March 2008. Simply put: Dmitry Dmitriev is the John Lennon of the art world.
Dmitry also creates custom work, and sells his work primarily through his web page http://dmitry-art.narod.ru/english.html
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The Wonders of Digital Art
Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson
Sometimes artistic talent goes beyond words . . .
Self Portrait
Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson, 1767 – 1824, was a French painter and pupil of Jacques-Louis David, who was part of the beginning of the Romantic movement by adding elements of eroticism through his paintings. Girodet is remembered for his precise and clear style and for his paintings of members of the Napoleonic family.
Girodet started in school by studying architecture and pursuing a military career. He later changed to the study of painting under a painter named Luquin, before entering the school of David. From 1789 to 1793 he lived in Italy where, at the age of twenty-two, he successfully competed for the Prix de Rome thus making a name for himself for his painting of the Story of Joseph and his Brethren. At Rome he painted his Hippocrate refusant les presents d’Artaxerxes and Endymion-dormant (presently held in the Louvre), work which was praised at the Salon of 1793.
Back in France, Girodet painted many portraits, including some of the members of the Napoléon family. In 1806, he exhibited “Scène de déluge” (Louvre), to which (in competition with the “Sabines” of David) was awarded the decennial prize. This success was followed up in 1808 by the production of the “Reddition de Vienne” and “Atala au Tombeau” a work which went far to deserve its immense popularity, by a happy choice of subject, and remarkable freedom from the theatricality of Girodet’s usual manner, which, however, soon returned again in his “La Révolte du Caire” (1810). Girodet was a member of the Academy of Painting and of the Institute of France; a knight of the order of St. Michael, and officer of the Legion of Honor.
Girodet produced a vast quantity of illustrations, amongst which may be cited those for the Didot Virgil (1798) and for the Louvre Racine (1801-1805).
Kurt Wenner Revisited
You saw Kurt Wenner’s magnificent street art here. Now have a look at his more traditional work.
“My interest in Renaissance classicism started with the simple desire to draw well. I was struck by the vast difference between how students and teachers drew in the 20th Century and the way artists drew 500 years ago. It seemed to me that artists of the past had abilities far beyond those of today. My curiosity about this discrepancy took me to Rome in order to seek out and master drawing and painting within the “language” of western classicism. During this time I isolated myself from 20th century art in order to explore the ideals and concepts practiced in earlier centuries. It has since become an ongoing mission to rediscover classical traditions and communicate them to a contemporary audience.”
The Renaissance
What would it be like to go back in time, to Italy during the time when Michelangelo walked the streets of Florence, spend maybe a week observing and being part of the daily life of that era? It’s impossible to imagine. Emerging from the dark ages, they were days on the dawn of a of new enlightenment. They may not have understood the reasons for the plague or the reasons to bathe more than once or twice a year, but in its rawest terms, they understood life. And they understood great art.
The Renaissance (French for “rebirth”)was a cultural movement that spanned roughly the 14th to the 17th century, beginning in Florence in the Late Middle Ages and later spreading to the rest of Europe. The term is also used more loosely to refer to the historic era, but since the changes of the Renaissance were not uniform across Europe, this is a general use of the term. As a cultural movement, it encompassed a resurgence of learning based on classical sources, the development of linear perspective in painting, and gradual but widespread educational reform. Traditionally, this intellectual transformation has resulted in the Renaissance being viewed as a bridge between the Middle Ages and the Modern era. Although the Renaissance saw revolutions in many intellectual pursuits, as well as social and political upheaval, it is perhaps best known for its artistic developments and the contributions of such polymaths as Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo, who inspired the term “Renaissance man”
Burning of Troy by Adam Elsheimer
There is a general, but not unchallenged, consensus that the Renaissance began in Florence, Tuscany in the 14th century. Various theories have been proposed to account for its origins and characteristics, focusing on a variety of factors including the social and civic peculiarities of Florence at the time; its political structure; the patronage of its dominant family, the Medici; and the migration of Greek scholars and texts to Italy following the Fall of Constantinople at the hands of the Ottoman Turks.
Susanna and the Elders By Artemisia Gentileschi
The Renaissance has a long and complex history, and there has been much debate among historians as to the usefulness of Renaissance as a term and as a historical delineation. Some have called into question whether the Renaissance was a cultural “advance” from the Middle Ages, instead seeing it as a period of pessimism and nostalgia for the classical age,while others have instead focused on the continuity between the two eras. Indeed, some have called for an end to the use of the term, which they see as a product of presentism – the use of history to validate and glorify modern ideals.
Danae by Artemisia Gentileschi
Whatever the scholarly consensus is today, however intellectually small the world may have been, the great artists that lived during the Renaissance knew passionate and sensuous art. Their work is magnificent.
The Art of James Michael McCracken
Artist that have an affinity for the male form, and who paint men with abandon, have a special place in my heart. See more of J. Michael McCracken’s work on his website.
“Sometimes you have to sew that silver lining in yourself!” J. Michael McCracken.
“Being an artist is somewhat a miserable experience, but not nearly as miserable as not!”
“May we all strive to be that which we seek in others”
“For me painting not only calms the best within, but rather he is the artiste.”
