You may recall I wrote about Sean Connery posing nude quite some time ago . the online news are all over this item like it is news, however it has been known for a long time that Sir Connery posed nude when he was younger, it fascinates me that it is such a big deal.
As for me, I know I like our naked dancing women more every time people like Stephen Bayley attack it.
Come and sip your Dubonnet in the nude.
this sounds like an interesting concept, I don’t know if I agree with a central precept, however, that the nude is no longer central to painting. it’s a crucial part of training and still a key subject, from art history to now there is no single subject that has been covered as extensively as the human body. it’s an interesting parallel to draw, that the lack of access to the nude for women artists impeded their growth as artists. but it is noted that other factors probably contributed as much.
It started in a small, sweaty bar where a couple of artists were showing, and the promoter had a hard time getting people to view the art…
My porno films star fully clothéd men making business deals Stew – Passing Strange
“What in heaven’s name is strange about a grandmother dancing nude?
“Already at 16, my mind was a battlefield: my love of pagan beauty, the male nude, at war with my religious faith.
Ennui I get ideas all the time. ideas for paintings, blog posts, tweets, thankyou letters, exhibitions, concepts, installations, companies, the future.. my backbrain is always churning, always creating, always coming up with new ideas. the problem is my forebrain. my forebrain gets involved and starts editing all these ideas. it puts the t in can. and the more I think about them the more I think people don’t want to read this, see this, think about that.. what if they don’t like it, what if they don’t like me, what if, what if whatif?
Maybe me being nude all the time is why we get along.”
Jennie's Palette 