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Due to the great amount of interest in TheGreatNude Invitational, we have rescheduled the event at The Roger Smith Hotel for May 13 - 16, 2010 - allowing for the participation of some great artists and galleries, and making this event truly exciting for the Figurative Arts community. Check the site for new information and regular updates at www.thegreatnude.tv/invitational
Artists Odd Nerdrum, Richard T. Scott, Scott Goodwillie and Adam Miller joined the exhibition, along with a number of galleries representing some of the world's most well-known figurative artists, including Forum Gallery. In addition, we are pleased to announce that Peter Trippi, editor of Fine Art Connoisseur Magazine and renowned art critic Donald Kuspit, have joined our Host Committee. Click to Read More>
Artists and curators who wish to exhibit at the Invitational will be happy to know about several new developments. Click to Read More>
Sincerely,
Jeffery Wiener
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Odd Nerdrum
Self-portrait, 2010 |
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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
October 1st - November 28th, 2009
Forum Gallery is a favorite gallery to visit when in mid-town Manhattan, especially 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.
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
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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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Adult Drawing: Pose 2
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Here's the second tutorial video from the Adult Draw Event held in April, 2009. It's another short pose, and I'm teaching how to compose a loose drawing and how to focus on just a few key details during a short drawing session. I go into detail on how to draw a natural hand, how to draw the face, and how to shade your drawing to capture general shapes created by the anatomy under light.
The Zoppa Brothers' Adult Drawing event (April 2009) featured 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!
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New York, New York • June 3 - 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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RECENT EXHIBITS
Steven Assael: Paintings and Drawings
Forum Gallery:
New York City • March 19, 2009 - May 02, 2009
Review by Scott Goodwillie
If Rembrandt were alive today and had access to the colors available to the modern painter, his work may have looked like the masterpieces produced by one of the most popular figurative artists working today. Steven Assael has a new show of beautiful paintings and drawings up at the Forum Gallery, right down the street from TheGreatNude.tv studio.
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Steven Assael's "Figure Holding Glasses", a large oil painting on canvas confronts visitors to the Forum Gallery. |
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ART WORLD EVENTS
Andrew Wyeth: Painter of Great Nudes
The art world mourned the passing of one of America's greatest painters earlier this year. Andrew Wyeth was a controversial icon; art lovers saw him as either a leader of American Realism or as an anachronism that Modernism must reject. I consider him one of the great contributors to the nude figure in Western Art, as he produced several of the 20th Century's Great Nudes.
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Andrew Wyeth's Black Velvet.
One of the iconic "Great Nudes"
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Andrew Wyeth: 1917 - 2009 |
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EXHIBITS
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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INTERVIEW
Anthony Ackrill
Exhibiting at The Artist Fair
Miami Beach, Florida - December 6, 2008
Anthony Ackrill is a masterful painter of iconic nudes. We ran into him at The Artist Fair on Miami Beach during Art Basel Miami 2008 Festivities. He was kind enough to give us a tour of his work and answer some questions.
Anthony's work was also a highlight at the R.A.M. Show here in Miami during Art Basel Miami 2007. Click here to watch video, (Anthony's work is near the end.)
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INTERVIEW
Mikel Glass: The Discarded
Currently Exhibiting at Fine Arts Center, Colorado Springs, Colorado
Artist Mikel Glass is currently exhibiting a large collection of wildly staged realist paintings, along with his incredible hyper-realistic scultpures of consumer packaging. Simply mind-boggling. You have to feel it to believe it.
We were fortunate enough to visit Mikel in his studio to record an interview and learn a little more about his creative process and technical virtuosity.
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Video Length: 15 min.
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