Dare to Bare…

While an academic foundation is crucial, it’s the artist’s interpretation that makes it art, not the literal, figurative, academic classification…. The academic works end up looking too similar – skill but no concept“ explains Christopher Henry, Chelsea gallery owner and art dealer.barebrush Events & News: Call for Entries: barebrush.com Celebrates the Nude Form:Barebrush are part of the new generation of art platforms that meld traditional gallery sensibilities with online technology…. This has created some controversies amongst dealers and gallery owners who have been seeing some of their domains usurped.

Image uploading problems solved!.. for now

Mirror Detail, by minxdragonDue to uploading problems that are still plaguing me through wordpress and added features I want to add like captions I am going back to using flickr as my photo host and have set up a template in ecto using 1001 as the flickr agent. Both pieces of software are created by the same people and integrate nicely together.

Wot I Learnded II

Following on from the last show I thought I would do a ‘wot I learnded’ after each show, because learning is fun 😉 This one is a little late but still valid…. Don’t be afraid to mix it up, try new things and step outside the comfort zone – not every painting needs to be the same and not every exhibition needs to have matching pieces, techniques or styles…. I think my confidence building and goal work over the last few months really helped build my confidence and readiness.

The Body Beautiful Vs The Body Grotesque

I have two very disparate styles and visions with my work – the body beautiful and the body grotesque. The comments I have received from different people seem to fall within the two camps. some people enjoy the exploration that all women are beautiful and sensual and others enjoy the heavily psychological and emotive works.

What is the Difference Between Nude and Naked?

This brings me to my million-dollar question: If you had to decide between your child being confronted by a sexually explicit, media-mangled image or a nude figure in a work of art, which would you choose?… given all the issues at the moment with nudity and specifically children seeing nude art, I think we need to establish our priorities and work out what the real issue is…. It’s so wrong that everyone and anyone can view a veritable smorgasbord of sexuality and nudity with relative ease over the internet, TV or magazines and in advertising everywhere, but that classic nude art can be reviled for their tasteful displays – something that is sorely lacking in modern media.

Submission Guidelines for Our Refrigerator Door.

Our refrigerator door is currently accepting your artwork, personal essays, short fiction, and poetry for submission…. We want people to come away from our refrigerator door feeling invigorated and alive, as if they had just learned something about themselves and/or the world that heretofore they had not…. This is hilarious, I’m reading through a lot of submission guidelines at the moment for different shows and this just came along at the right time to really make me laugh 😆 have a read through it, my fridge will be adorned with it soon as well I am sure..

I’m hot!

I made it to the reddit hotlist earlier this week and the wordpress hotlist over the weekend. So I want to say welcome and thanks to my new readers and to wordpress and reddit. it seems to be due to my coverage of the Nude scandals in New York and Texas.

Top 5 Nude Controversy posts

Given the current controversies surrounding nude art and whether it is traumatic or presents an issue for the greater public, I thought I would Post my top 5 favorite posts on Nudity. Get your Nudity out on My face No Nudes is Good Nudes Let it all hang out Children exposed to Nudes Is Nudity Warping Children’s minds?

My Blog is Denuded!

usually it isn’t an upload problem but some random theme issue where the images will sometimes appear and sometimes not. so I am experimenting with different themes at the moment to get one that doesn’t break as much. this may cause some random glitches but will hopefully be better in the long run – apologies for any problems!