Articles Featured

Promoting your Figurative Nudes on TheGreatNude is SMART – for SEO and future sales.

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 […]

Recreating Famous Nudes Sketch Sessions Videos

Recreating Gustav Courbet’s “Bachante” in pencil.

When TheGreatNude.TV was first launched in 2007, the idea was to recreate famous “Great Nudes” from art history as a television series. Produced over 12 years ago inside Jeffrey’s tiny Hell’s Kitchen studio with early Digital Video technology, this experimental episode has publisher/artist Jeffrey Wiener taking on the challenge of recreating Gustav Courbet’s Bacchante in […]

Exhibitions Interviews Videos

“Bodies and Soul”: Interviews at Tria Gallery Opening Night, 2008

TheGreatNude.tv heads down to Chelsea to check out the “Bodies and Soul” Show running at Tria Gallery. Host Jeffrey Wiener interviews Tria partner Paige Bart, and the interviews artists Katheryn Holt, Michela Martello, Kathy Stecko, Josh George, and Ellen Nora Goldstein. Humorous side note: I was so nervous with this interview right before the opening. […]

Interviews Sketch Sessions Videos

Interview with Daniel Maidman at TheGreatNude Bash at the Roger Smith Hotel, 2010.

Daniel Maidman, one of TheGreatNude Invitational’s exhibiting artists, spent the weekend attending our drawing workshops and attending our Sketch Party. During his drawing marathon, Daniel answers questions as he sketched from our two models that evening, about his approach to drawing the live nude. Watch these and other videos and articles at https://thegreatnude.tv

Exhibitions

John Belardo, Creative Destruction: New works in clay and on paper

The Azarian McCullough Gallery at St Thomas Aquinas College is pleased to present a solo exhibition by John Belardo titled Creative Destruction. This body of work comprises new work in clay and on paper. Primarily focused on realistic, complex and classically inspired scenes, Belardo examines the fraught relationship between form, matter and narrative. The terra-cotta sculptures […]

Registry

Gallery: Norik Dilanchyan

Artist Statement: The human form always was the inspiration for my art. I am working in mix media, exploring and experimenting different materials, surfaces, and textures. My most recent experiment is in the area where traditionally done paintings get improvised in digital media. Biography: Norik Dilanchyan is a professional artist, working in different media including […]

Articles Featured Sketch Sessions

The Harlem Speakeasy Sketch Salon

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 […]

Art Fairs Articles Featured Sketch Sessions

“Drawing Salons” Offered To Galleries, Hotels For ArtBasel Miami

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 […]