April 23, 2010
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The Colors of Eric Massart
Eric Massart is a self-taught artist with a certain idea of aesthetics and the passion of what is original and different.
After more than fifteen years in the areas of graphic arts and a communications company, almost naturally, he came to painting and more generally, to creation.
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March 23, 2010
The Photographic Art of Tony Ryan
Tony Ryan has a long history working in the photographic and modeling industries. For 20 years he has published and created some of Australia’s most popular calendars that were distributed internationally. He still have an enormous passion for photography and people and is running workshops motivated towards helping photographers to connect more deeply with their subjects.
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March 16, 2010
Guglielmo Pluschow & Wilhelm von Gloeden
Talented Pioneers of Photography, and Cousins
Here a sampling of Pluschow’s work is followed by von Gloeden’s.
Guglielmo Plüschow (born Wilhelm Plüschow; August 18, 1852 – January 3, 1930), was a German photographer who moved to Italy and became known for his nude photos of local youths, predominantly males (but also females). Being the cousin of Wilhelm von Gloeden, who, despite taking up nude photography later than Plüschow, soon overshadowed him, Plüschow was several times at odds with the law and charged with corruption of minors. Today, his photography is recognized for its artistic merits, even though it is generally considered somewhat inferior to von Gloeden’s on account of his less graceful handling of lighting and the sometimes strangely stilted poses of his models.
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Not much is known about Plüschow’s early life, except that he was born in Wismar as the eldest of seven brothers and sisters.
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In the early 1870s, he moved to Rome and changed his first name from “Wilhelm” to its Italian equivalent “Guglielmo”. Initially making a living as a wine merchant, he soon turned to male and female nude photography.
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March 11, 2010
Curves, Mystery and Shadows
I’ve read two or three articles recently that delve into the growing acceptance of male nudity in art, photographic exhibits and movies. These articles typically take the position that female nudity has been, and often still is, more acceptable because nude women are more aesthetically pleasing to look at. I, for one, take exception. Women are indeed beautiful creatures and pleasant to look at, and I enthusiastically showcase the female form on this blog; but is the female form more pleasant to look at than their male counterparts? Check out the images in this post and you be the judge.
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January 17, 2010
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September 11, 2009
Eugene Jansson
Eugène Fredrik Jansson (Stockholm 18 March 1862 – Skara 15 June 1915) was a Swedish painter known for his night-time land- and cityscapes dominated by shades of blue. Towards the end of his life, from about 1904, he mainly painted male nudes. The earlier of these phases has caused him to sometimes be referred to as blåmålaren, “the blue-painter”.
Jansson enrolled in the Tekniska skolan (now Konstfack) and studied for Edvard Perséus, a painter who ran a private art school in Stockholm. He was accepted into the Antique school of the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts in 1881, but did not have the means to follow most of his contemporaries to Paris for further studies. Remaining in Stockholm, which supplied him most of his motifs, his first trip outside the Nordic countries would come in 1900, when he had already become well-established as a painter and his economic situation started to improve.
September 9, 2009
Helen Facenna
Helen Facenna, (pronounced Fa-CHEN-na) is a self-taught artist from the UK. She has been painting and drawing for as long as she can remember. “It’s a very important part of my existence.”
Helen specializes in creating male nude art and portraits, with the occasional foray into sculpture. She finds inspiration in the human form, in faces and expressions, and in the theatrical and dramatic forces that bodies and faces can convey.
Her work celebrates all that it is to be human, and is a constant journey through the complicated world of the human spirit.
Though her works lacks the masterful fluidity of a more experienced artist, the art she creates is evocative, sensual and extremely masculine. She has an eye for very muscular men, and the talent to paint them. I prefer her subjects that have spent a little less time in the gym.
Visit her blog at Facenna Fine Art.
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