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It’s very liberating to be Naked in front of a hundred people, but there’s nothing sexual about lovemaking on a movie set.
At least the animals are nude!
This is a great opinion article from the Sydney Morning Herald. It’s good to know that we can still have fun with this subject and it hasn’t all become too taboo to even mention.
The calendar, which features stars from the Channel Seven documentary series RSPCA Animal Rescue and some of the animals they have rescued, is understood to be Australia’s first calendar depicting clothed people since the 1950s, when clothes were considered normal and worn shamelessly at all levels of society.
When shown pictures from the RSPCA calendar last week, members of the public were outraged.
“It’s disgusting,” said a man with a beard, 47. “I can’t even look,” said a girl with a mole on her nose, 15. “Filthy!” said a woman with a flowery hat and a monocle, 58, though it was later discovered she had spotted something untoward hanging off a poodle’s bottom.
The RSPCA defended its controversial calendar by pointing out that all the animals were nude. However, this may not be enough to save the society from Government censors, who are expected to confiscate the calendar and use state-of-the-art software to add rude bits to the humans – or at least rude bits tastefully obscured by squeaky toys, bones and budgie feeding bowls.
Proceeds from sales of the calendar will go to the RSPCA’s animal rescue service. Critics have accused the society of courting scandal in a sordid bid to sell more copies. However, in the saturated weird-nude-calendar market, it takes increasingly degenerate acts to get noticed.
friday nude quotes
Perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add but when there is no longer anything to take away, when a body has been stripped down to its nakedness.
because one nude Sarah Palin just wasn’t enough
oh yes. this time it’s a painting created by infamous Australian artist Pricasso (Tim Patch). guess what he paints with? the piece is artistically better, the composition, posing and coloration are more dynamic and fluid. but my statements from before still stand. I am not a Sarah Palin supporter and I am not particularly offended by this piece or the technique involved, but I do wonder if she would be lampooned and, yes, even objectified this way if she wasn’t female. I feel that works like this reinforce the notion that she’s a colossal joke because she’s a chick. don’t get me wrong- I still think she’s a colossal joke, just that her gender isn’t the cause. I think everyone is getting caught up in her femaleness and that can only hurt female politicians who aren’t, actually, colossal jokes.
back to Pricasso, I’ve always wondered about the ramifications of using his tool for the trade. it’s very delicate skin and the toxicity of a lot of different paints and pigments are very well known. even if he uses non toxic paints and solvents, I can’t help but wonder what the impact is on the local environment..
for a video of Pricasso in action and further comments on this piece check out Art News Blog.
For more of Pricasso’s world Leaders visit his Web Page.
friday nude quotes
Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners; beauty in the nude, and in forms. This is true of bodies; but when we speak of feelings, beauty is in their spirituality, and grace in their moderation.
Open house..studio..whatever..
Our landlords are putting our house up for sale. if it had been a few months ago or a few months hence we probably would have bought this house but unfortunately the timing is really off for us. so we are in the midst of all the usual. photographers and floor plan people, the shower renovation nightmare mark II (now thankfully almost resolved without carcinogenic fumes of doom next to the master bedroom) and of course open houses. Liam and I have been through it all before. there is something about us living in a house that makes it a wonderful sales prospect – usually for someone who wants to move in themselves.
The difference this time is that our landlords are actually cool and are encouraging me to put up price tags on all my works hanging around the house (of which there are many, I store on the walls) and to treat the open days as opportunities to sell my works. I don’t know if anything will come of it, but I am going to put out some information anyway. hey, exposure is still exposure right? you never know…
Nude Model Recap
Advance – preliminary reference image
I was going to continue my series on using Daz|Studio as a painters reference, but unfortunately my internet connection has been shaped and is preventing me from doing what I want to cover. so here is a quick list of the first three in the series.
how to get a nude model to do whatever, whenever, for free
free nude models! (and other stuff)
adding realism to your nude models
Next I would like to cover starting Daz and loading your models and textures, posing your models, lighting your models, backdrops and props and finally rendering. this should give you a really good overview of Daz and it’s capabilities. if there is anything you would like to see me add please let me know in the comments.
all new work added to Discovered artists
I’ve been working at getting all of my online listings up to date including updating all my latest work on Discovered Artists. It’s not the most thrilling activity on the planet but it is all for a good cause. plus my sexy new iMac and Leopard makes it much easier. the speed, the easy photo access all speeds up a dull routine. hell, everything is more fun with a hot new computer! so drop by DA and check it out.
Next I will be working on my listings on BoundlessGallery and editing the prints that are available on Redbubble. oh yes, the life of an artist is glamorous indeed.
Nude of the Week
List by Jennie Rosenbaum (sold)
Starting next week I will be featuring one of my works that will be available for sale online each Monday. usually it will be a new piece but I will be featuring older ones as well. why am I doing this? I want to further link my sales with my blog and social media for obvious reasons. I also want to give myself a kick up the butt to create new work and then upload it in a timely manner to the online galleries that represent my work. by being accountable here I am hoping that I will create at least one new work per week. That’s the plan anyway, so stay tuned for Nude of the Week!
friday nude quotes
On Clothes
And the weaver said, “Speak to us of Clothes.”
And he answered:
Your clothes conceal much of your beauty, yet they hide not the unbeautiful.
And though you seek in garments the freedom of privacy you may find in them a harness and a chain.
Would that you could meet the sun and the wind with more of your skin and less of your raiment,
For the breath of life is in the sunlight and the hand of life is in the wind.
Some of you say, “It is the north wind who has woven the clothes to wear.”
But shame was his loom, and the softening of the sinews was his thread.
And when his work was done he laughed in the forest.
Forget not that modesty is for a shield against the eye of the unclean.
And when the unclean shall be no more, what were modesty but a fetter and a fouling of the mind?
And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
Khalil Gibran – quote from “The Prophet”
New nude: unnamed
Another watercolor, this time i went with a different take, the watercolor is all one color and the pencil is in several different ones. I wanted to see if there was a notable difference if the pencil was the star.
This is another shot and Blog using my phone instead of my computer. I’m tweaking settings and I have a new imac that isn’t completely set up yet. Luckily we have all these wonderful options these days!
Sarah Palin Nude with Gun
Sarah Palin Nude with Gun by Bruce Elliot
CHICAGO.- Bruce Elliott, 68, of Chicago, has unveiled a nude portrait of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin in his bar in the North Side of Chicago, the Old Town Ale House. The work is four feet tall and is drawing crowds to the bar. In the portrait, the governor is wearing her trademark hairdo, holding an automatic rifle and standing naked on a polar-bear skin rug.
Bruce Elliott said, “I don’t see how she could be offended by this. I made her into a sex figure.”
Bruce Elliott admits to being a supporter of Senator Barack Obama. He also said that his daughter posed nude for the painting.
He said, “My daughter is a heck of a stand-in for Sarah Palin. She can even do the voice.”
Bruce Elliott further stated, “I’ve been following her (Sarah Palin) religiously. I had never heard of her before, like everyone else. I find her bizarrely fascinating, even though I pretty much despise everything she stands for.
I actually have mixed views about this. granted that part of my concern is that it’s not actually very good in my opinion. I’ve actually been mulling over that one line Bruce Elliot Said about this piece “I made her into a sex figure.” because nudes are always sexual by definition right? and granted it is a pinup style pose, but it actually irks me because nobody would consider doing the same with a male candidate. It drives me insane that the female candidates have to worry about so much more than politics because apparently it matters more how they look, than what they believe in. a number of people have even mentioned that Palin’s appearance is one of their deciding factors in voting. remember Hilary’s big makeover? it was all over the media. why is appearance so important for female politicians, does it affect their politics? and why is it ok to turn female politicians into “sex figures” but not the males? (note, this opinion is not because this work is a nude of a politician but because of the artists comments about his intent)
anyway, back to the piece, it’s an excellent tactic to draw publicity for yourself by leveraging a hot topic and combining it with controversy. it’s always a good publicity draw, and it’s working wonders for the artist and the the Old Town Ale House but I really wish the actual artwork was better!
Should henson be allowed to scout in Schools?
The recent interview and book about Bill Henson and the controversy in May has brought to light how Henson goes about searching for his models and has, in turn, caused it’s own furor of media activity. It appears that the powers that be are not content to have lost their favorite whipping boy and have dredged up all new ways to try to make Henson and his work shady and inappropriate.
the book, by Journalist David Marr, takes an in depth look at Bill Henson and some of his practices. I believe the interview in which Henson details how he chooses a model was designed to set people’s minds at ease, to show that it’s not arbitrary or sexual but a careful process involving the parents at every level. Unfortunately one of his methods has set off a whole new range of debates.
Henson was having trouble finding the models he needed for the Sydney exhibition due to open in May this year. Friends introduced him to the principal of a Melbourne primary school. This wasn’t the first time the photographer had been invited into schools in his search for models.
[From No misgivings about those photos, says Henson - Arts - Entertainment]
The media has been having a field day, asserting that Henson scoured the schools implying that no child is safe from the unsupervised depridations of deranged artists.
Australian Primary Principals Association president Leonie Trimper said it made no difference that the school principal accompanied Mr Henson, it was still wrong.
“It doesn’t matter which way you look at it, I think it’s still inappropriate,” she told AAP.
“Primary schools are not there to be a ready commercial market for individuals.
“I am not aware that parents knew this was going to happen, whether staff knew.”Ms Trimper said the issue was a timely reminder about schools’ responsibilities to students and their families.
“I guess someone should sit down with the principal and have a talk about the protocols in their school and if it needs to be taken further, if there needs to be counselling for the principal, then I think that should occur.”
Liberal Senator Bill Heffernan said it was the ultimate betrayal of parents’ trust and someone ought to be sacked.
Mr Marr said Mr Henson was accompanied by the school principal at all times and he did not tell the children he wanted them to model for him or take any photographs.
“The only contact with the photographer was if the parents of the children wished to talk to him,” he told Sky News.
“The impression has been put about by Senator Heffernan and by others that he kind of roamed, roamed the playground unsupervised, perhaps interviewing children, perhaps photographing children.
“That is not the case. The impression that he is sort of loose in the playground is actually factually wrong.”Mr Henson told Mr Marr he mostly found his subjects through friends or friends of friends.
[From Henson 'scouted school for child models' - Breaking News - National - Breaking News]
The public outcry is what about privacy? what about our kids and their right to be kids? Now, I remember going to school and having talent scouts, model scouts and so on parading through, talking to the kids. it was highly competitive, a meat market if you will. I know that studios and actors still scout schools for likely children with differing levels of interaction with the kids. Henson, had no contact with the children. he was never unsupervised and never spoke to the parents directly. he pointed out the two children he was interested in photographing, the principal contacted the parents and the decision was left up to them- one family said yes and one said no. The boy who was photographed in the end was not photographed nude. there is a call for the principal to be sacked, for laws to toughen, but I don’t see that what he did was particularly wrong and definitely not illegal. what do you think?
Bill Henson Speaks out about teen nude controversy
The Henson controversy has heated up again with the first interview and official statement given by the artist since the whole mess began back in May.
…”If you believe you’ve done nothing wrong, that what you’ve done is right, you can draw a tremendous amount of strength from that. If I’d had misgivings about my work, that would have had a profoundly destabilising effect.”
…Henson doesn’t see this as a Sydney v Melbourne story or even an only-in-Australia story. “I strikes me that beneath the panic and nonsense there was the basic common sense and decency of the vast majority of people. There were people who said to me: this sort of thing is peculiar to Australia, and I tell them of course not. These things can happen in any society, in any part of the world at any time, and they have.”
He adds: “Perhaps we are a little more prone to it as far as the arts are concerned. At times I think Western culture has a tenuous grasp on this continent. It’s like the topsoil, very easily blown away.”
[From No misgivings about those photos, says Henson - Arts - Entertainment]
Henson seems to have risen past this controversy, holding tight to his vision and his ideals. He does admit that the choice of image for the publicity may have been a mistake, however, I understand the reasons behind his selection. to Henson this piece was the crown of the exhibition, the most “alive”. From the position of only having viewed a few works from this oeuvre, I can understand his views. this photograph captures something fleeting and real. it’s a magnificent piece and while it may have been a little too out there for most of the public, his decision to use it in the publicity makes sense.
along with Henson’s comments to the press are the first statements from the family of the young female model involved. a lot of the controversy around this exhibition was centered around the concern that the models were incapable of deciding for themselves and that the parents couldn’t decide for them, creating an impasse. I never understood why none of the politicians raising a fuss ever considered the parents and children discussing it and arriving at an educated decision together. that seemed to me to be the best and only resolution. strangely enough this seems to be exactly what the model (referred to in the article as N) and her parents did.
“We talked about how she might feel if her friends, teachers or uncles and aunts saw the pictures,” she says. “We pointed out some of the potential implications of working with Bill (we did talk about the possibility of causing some controversy over the pictures, although not to anything like this extreme). She also tried to imagine how she might feel when she was older, realising that she may feel differently. She had already talked about all of this with her sister and none of it bothered her.”
[From No misgivings about those photos, says Henson - Arts - Entertainment]
as an aside, I think every potential nude model – regardless of age – should have a similar conversation with their nearest and dearest. iron out misunderstandings and expectations at the beginning so that you too can stand tall and collected during a national art censorship witch hunt.
the dignity exercised by Henson and N and her family go to prove once again how ridiculous this controversy really was. another example of making assumptions and leaping in blindly without checking facts first.
For my coverage of the Bill Henson controversy click here
friday nude quotes
In dreams we see ourselves naked and acting our real characters, even more clearly than we see others awake.
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