Response from individual artists for TheGreatNude Invitational has been huge! We’re now looking for “artist representatives” to manage several groups of artists. Curate a room at the event from our pool of applicants, handle sales at the event May 13-16, and provide art management in exchange for commissions paid directly by the artists to you. Contact us!
Friday, February 12, 2010 marked the opening for Chelsea Gallery, Rogue Space’s show, Valentine’s Nude Workshop. The gallery featured a wide range of mediums with the figure as theme, with some artists from Barebrush.com. During the show, behind a private curtain, live drawing sessions were taking place. Inside the low-lit room were two models, striking a series a three different poses per session. In addition, TGN was able to judge the artists works from after the event.
TGN publisher Jeffrey Wiener talking with some Barebrush artists.
The following day TheGreatNude.tv publisher, Jeffrey Wiener gave a speech at the gallery on empowering artists through technology, digital marketing and social media. Make sure to check out the TGN site for more info on upcoming events, including our Great Nude Invitationals, and to see are our four favorite artist’s sketches posted online from the event.
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TGN publisher Jeffrey Wiener judging works from the contest.
TheGreatNude Invitational - May 13 - 16, The Roger Smith Hotel
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 have 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>
Galleries, Curators, Artists Groups & Art Schools who wish to exhibit at the Invitational will be happy to know about several new developments. Early payment Discounts available. Click to Read More>
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Now showing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art until April 18, 2010 is the first ever show dedicated solely to Agnolo Bronzino, the Italian Mannerist
. With almost sixty drawings from the artist, , some never before seen, the exhibition helps to shed light on an artist whose name is familiar to many, but whose depictions of the form may still be unfamiliar to viewers.
The show is put together with the help of the Gabinetto Disegni e Stampe degli Uffizi and the Polo Museale Fiorentino, Florence and encompasses a refreshing take on the figure. Although the drawings are done largely from a scholastic standpoint, making excellent reference of the figures musculature and positioning, the works read as soft, delicate and emotional. Bronzino’s take on the figure is not only refreshing, but raises the question of how a figurative artist of his caliber escaped the public eye for so long.
Seated Nude Youth Playing Panpipes, red chalk, 1530-32
Seated Male Nude Youth, black chalk on gray-blue prepared paper, 1540-41
Throughout his career, Rembrandt took on a select group of students and taught them the techniques that he had spent his life perfecting. Because of the numerous works born in the academic environment that he created, many of the works are today disputed over whether the works came from Rembrandt or from one of the students, influenced by his style.
That is exactly what the show titled Rembrandt and his Pupils showing at the Getty Center until February 28th set out to show. Using a series of comparative techniques, the exhibit helps to explain the difference between a work of Rembrandt and of the fifteen pupils shown in the exhibit. Showing just over one hundred works on paper the collection highlights the brilliant simplicity in the work created between Rembrandt and his pupils.
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Seated Female Nude, Rembrandt, 1661
When most people are asked to describe an artistic genius, Picasso is often cited as an example. In addition to his undeniable creative talents and the large body of excellent work produced in his lifetime, his whole career appears to have been a successful strategy of exploration and risk-taking at just the right moment in history.
Picasso moved through many periods during his career; some of them depending heavily on the use of the figure, and others where the human form is broken down into nearly unrecognizable shapes. The widely varying phases of Picasso, if positioned anonymously next to each other, could easily be seen as the works of completely different artists; not only aesthetically, but in tone and subject matter as well. His life’s work reflects the desire to understand the essence of humanity and to relay it back to us.
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Blue Nude. Oil on canvas, 1902
Les Demoiselles d'Avignon. Oil on canvas, 1907
Crouching Nude. Oil on canvas, 1954
Having been a contributor to the New York art world for over 130 years The Art Students League offers a rich history since its creation in 1875. Although the ASL is probably best known for producing celebrated artists in figurative drawing, it retains an informal environment where anyone of any skill level is welcome to attend. Its creation came out of necessity when a National academy instructor was unable to continue teaching due to lack of funds and joined The Art Students League. Within a decade of their opening the facility saw enrollments grow and boasted instructors such as William Merritt Chase and TGN favorite Kenyon Cox.
Over time the school amassed an impressive body of work and offered classes in many new styles of drawing. That’s exactly what their show, Drawing Lessons is all about. The show was initially held in October in New York but is now showing in Houston. Showing their collection of early academic drawings the collection includes the work of students of prominent ASL artists. Whether thoroughly versed in the figure, hoping to observe the techniques of early masters, or curious to figurative techniques used over the last one hundred years, the wide collection of artists and approaches to the figure proves to not only be an impressive collection, but shows the path that figurative art inside the Art Students League has taken.
Johnson, Academic drawing, undated, vine and compressed charcoal on Michallet paper, 24 ½ x 18 ½ in. Student of George B. Bridgman. PERMANENT COLLECTION, THE ART STUDENTS LEAGUE OF NEW YORK.
Walter Marshall Clute (1870-1915), Academic drawing, February 7, 1894, vine and compressed charcoal on Michallet paper, 24 ¼ x 18 ½ in. Student of H. Siddons Mowbray. PERMANENT COLLECTION, THE ART STUDENTS LEAGUE OF NEW YORK
Last night, February 3rd, was the opening night for the newly relocated DFN Gallery. After having previously been located in Soho, and in Chelsea, DFN now takes residence on the Upper East Side, where its modern works refresh the local art scene.
The energy filled opening, titled Looks Good on Paper offers a broad range of works from over forty different artists. Being works on paper, the general scale of the pieces were mostly on the smaller side, but the consistent media did not limit variety at the show. Many of the pieces carried themes of beautiful imagery, inspiration seeming to come from a blend of everyday life as well as the fantastical. Some of the artists featured include Vincent Desiderio, Steve Shaheen, and Joan Semmel.
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Jordan Wolfson, Reclining Nude III, 2010, ink and acrylic on paper.
Joan Semmel, Pencil Study from 'Centered,' 2003, pencil on paper.
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The role of the human figure in the history of American art is a topic we appreciate here at our publication. 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. 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.
This is a great show for those who are fans of the Figurative Arts. Bravo National Academy! The show closes on November 15th.
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Forum Gallery is a favorite gallery to visit in mid-town 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 on paper works.
Of the paintings in this exhibit, several artists working directly with the figure are well represented. Reflection by William Bailey welcomes the viewer into the gallery. A female figure gazes at us, toying with her hair, her figure framed by the balance in the lines of the room surrounding her. Nearby, Prelude by Alan Feltus is similarly infused by lines, yet the tense figure in this painting is an echo of the surrounding chaos of objects surrounding this figure. Suite for Piano by Carlo Maria Mariani is a musical number - so to speak - the floating woman in this painting radiating a creative energy and physical motion.
William Bailey, Reflection. Oil on canvas, 60 x 60 in.
Alan Feltus, Prelude, 2008. Oil on canvas (47 1/4 x 39 1/4in)
Carlos Maria Mariani, Suite for Piano, 2008. Oil on canvas (50 x 31in)
Of the sculptures shown in The Platonic Ideal we saw a nice selection of early 20th century figurative sculpture. Torso by Alexander Archipenko is a wonder of simplicity, the smooth flowing lines of the the form moving into each other. Other works in this show were Female Head by Elie Nadelman and the monumental Centurione Petrificato by Igor Mitoraj, a large antiquated head, of seemingly Roman origins, and clearly heroic. Hugo Robus‘ The General, Dawn, and Elie Nadelman with Woman Dressing Another Woman’s Hair, make complete use of the figure, depicting scenes and emotions that show the expressive nature of figurative arts.
Alexander Archipenko, Torso, 1948. Terracotta (24 inches high)
Igor Mitoraj, Centurione Petrificato, 2008. Bronze (44 x 24 1/2 x 18 1/4 in)
Hugo Robus, The General, 1922. Polished bronze (19 x 19 1/2 x 7 3/8 in)
Edie Nadelman once again gains our attention with her ink sketch Untitled, showing a rough depiction of the form in motion. Philip Evergood’s At Nebuchandnezzar’s Court, a mixed media painting showing multiple figures strolling about, is a light-hearted tangent to the show’s other, more seriously contemplative works.
Philip Evergood, At Nebuchadnezzar's Court, 1927 Watercolor over pencil on paper.
Elie Nadelman, Untitled, 1912. Pen and black ink on paper (17 1/2 x 12 1/2 in)
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