Bio Drive

So I’ve been thinking that my biography is a bit boring, a bit old and a lot dated – in short, I am over it. so I’ve been working today on writing up a new formal biography and a less formal “about” for my websites and stuff. I’d love your input, I’m really terrible at…

Fertility God’s penis brought to light

The restored Hymenaios Disguised As A Woman During An Offering To Priapus (detail) by Poussin They hid the phallus of Priapus. It’s what we call adjustment for modesty, and it’s not uncommon,” said Regina Pinto Moreira, quoted in Tuesday’s edition of the Folha de Sao Paulo newspaper. She suspects the cover-up was made in conservative…

Nudes not under a blanket ban

The artists Margaret Tuckey and Scott Eames and their banned works from last year Councillors adopted a “sensitive art policy” in May, stating the council had a duty of care to protect Civic Centre visitors from artwork “depicting images containing perceived violence, racism, sexism, nudity, blasphemy, cultural discrimination and other issues that may be seen…

blocked

a 3D study for a painting- Weary So I am blocked. I am blocked against writing, against painting, pretty much against everything creative. even my cooking has less flair. every time one of these massive blocks happen I get a surge of fear ‘is this it? was that all I got? am I going to…

friday nude quotes

We must see to it that the man looking at the picture has at hand everything he needs to paint a nude. If you really give him everything he needs — and the best — he’ll put everything where it belongs, with his own eyes. Each person will make for himself the kind of nude he wants, with the nude that I will have made for him.

Why not expose children to nudes?

Journey to the New by Itzik Asher Our kids today learn almost nothing about art, never mind nudity in art. Their only exposure to nudity is the semi-porn they see on TV and in videos. So if you pass this sculpture with your kids, I say get out of the car and talk to them…

Few Linger in the Louvre

The Bather, Ingres, 1808 Almost nobody, over the course of that hour or two, paused before any object for as long as a full minute. Only a 17th-century wood sculpture of a copulating couple, from San Cristobal in the Solomon Islands, placed near an exit, caused several tourists to point, smile and snap a photo,…

Women in the art world need balls to get ahead

Shadow 10×8 Oils on Linen by Jennie Rosenbaum Although the status of the work of female artists may seem like a simple case of discrimination, in reality, the problem is much more complicated. Before I begin looking at the more complex issues behind the problems facing female artists, I thought it would be interesting to…