Obsession

it started as a way for me to create, pose and light my ideal models then pick my angle for the image to paint…. It doesn’t help that there is a wealth of wonderful free or inexpensive content out there and I am a bit of a collection freak so I can’t help but download everything…. I used to use myself for a reference or my own mind, but lately my poses and angles have been getting more adventurous, and harder to realize without reference.

Dear myspace..

I would like to know: What counts as nudity to myspace – how much of a body needs to be unclothed for it to contravene the T&C?… I would like to start a new page and try to regain the ground I have lost but I would like to know the details of the nudity clause so that I don’t contravene it, and so that other artists may use myspace without fear of losing their hard work as well. please be as detailed as possible in your response, I would prefer to have too much information rather than not enough – not enough information is what led to this problem in the first place.

a narrow view of nudity

Of course there is a long tradition of the female nude, but it’s one that is by and large repudiated by feminist painters and theorists; the reviled “male gaze”, all that…. a response to Germaine Greer’s recent article on women’s art and to the Moran prize winner this article is naive and clearly written by someone woefully ignorant of art and art history…. for recent news go and look at Nancy “beth” reid’s self portrait , look at moran winner Fiona Lowry’s with What I Assume You Shall Assume , (to pick two recent newsworthy pieces) really really look at them, don’t avert your eyes- look into theirs and try to see everything they wanted to say.

More on the Student Art competition nude scandal

In a followup to the recent story about robbing two young artists of a competition win and prize money for daring to enter nudes, several Virginian columnists have had their say about their feelings on the matter…. And don’t pre-screen 600-plus entries down to the 62 that De Groft was given to choose from, leave in “inappropriate” art, then call for a do-over when your juror makes his choice…. [From Censoring winner of student art show is in poor taste — Arts and Culture, Virginia, College of William and Mary — dailypress.com ] And you know you may have made a bad decision when an employee columnist from the newspaper that started it all has this to say: We in the news business go to great lengths to shield minors.

Take me to the Kittens!

I was looking through one of my contacts, who has the adult content filter on his works only to see this delightful message…. Well, I hadn’t seen it before (I usually don’t have a filter up, I have no idea why it was there now..)

…If you’ve changed your mind about wanting to see this content, you can ESCAPE.

New Nude – Falling

I still think the blindfold is a little static but it is as ready as it’s going to be…. those who have seen it in person (before this stage) have all said that they don’t know if she jumped or was pushed but that it is free and frightening all at the same time…. I am probably as happy as I am going to be with the blindfold (knowing that I will never truly be satisfied there!)

Boy’s nude artwork torn up

“I didn’t really care about them after I got in trouble, and I haven’t really wanted to draw anything like that since…. The female figures were among some of the easier tutorials to start and he had seen nudes in books and didn’t think there was anything wrong with his drawing them and proudly showing the works to his classmates…. the figures are poses without details- his certainly looks more like a figure than a nude- there are no offensive details, no pornographic images, just a small figure seated and rather well drawn.

Teen’s nude loses art award to hypocrisy

[From Art lovers raise money for teen who lost Student Gallery title | HamptonRoads.com | PilotOnline.com ] Three separate judges were brought in to choose a winner before the Pilot would finally accept one that was not nude in any way…. “We honestly don’t believe those two pieces are appropriate to be held up as the winners of a high school art show, because they do depict the nude,” Pam Smith-Rodden, director of marketing for The Pilot, said at the time…. Reid’s work is very discreet, There are almost no images of it but to me the pose is interesting and there is certainly nothing objectionable showing (no more than hipster pants reveal on a daily basis anyway) It is ridiculous that the competition was changed based on the entrants and laughable that judges were hired only to have their decisions overthrown.