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In reply to the discussion: Hello my DU friends! Our wonderful Friday Afternoon Challenge today: The Venerable Genre of the ‘Nud [View all]countryjake
(8,554 posts)42. Reading more about that Thomas Eakins painting...
I found it interesting that William Rush probably never used an actual nude model in the carving of his statue, but Eakins was adamant that human anatomy be studied, as a teacher. The Realist. Made his point and gave Rush's name notice in our country.
(and there's a George Washington carving hiding in the back there, behind the woman sewing. It's a statue that Rush carved after "Water Nymph and Bittern".)
Thanks for all of these, CTyankee! I've never been so intent on looking at nekkid people before, ha! Fun searches and I am still amazed (and looking) at all of Whistler's works; all I ever knew him for was his mother!
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Hello my DU friends! Our wonderful Friday Afternoon Challenge today: The Venerable Genre of the ‘Nud [View all]
CTyankee
Feb 2013
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Sargent did nude studies, nice ones. Chase had the misfortune to paint at the same time
CTyankee
Feb 2013
#17
HINT: of the five remaining, one is British, one is French, one is Italian and 2 are American
CTyankee
Feb 2013
#18
I love the fact that critics found this work to be indecent because the nude wasn't
CTyankee
Feb 2013
#43
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CTyankee
Feb 2013
#48
It's a variation (!) of the "sacra conversazione" theme of the Madonna, Child and Saints that
CTyankee
Feb 2013
#50
Oh, yes, the light on her corset! Maybe it was Eakins secret fetish...who knows?
CTyankee
Feb 2013
#46