A exploration of the nude older male in art from Classical sculpture to Baroque painting and beyond.
Wednesday 28 December 2011
Tuesday 27 December 2011
Saturday 24 December 2011
Annibale Carracci(1597-1600)Italy-Silenus gathering grapes
Annibale Carraci-Silenus gathering grapes-National Gallery London
Sunday 11 December 2011
Saturday 10 December 2011
Monday 5 December 2011
Sunday 4 December 2011
Friday 2 December 2011
Sunday 27 November 2011
Friday 18 November 2011
Thursday 17 November 2011
Monday 30 May 2011
Sunday 8 May 2011
Farnese Hercules(Naples)
The Farnese Hercules is an ancient sculpture, probably an enlarged copy made in the early third century AD and signed by a certain Glykon, from an original by Lysippos (or one of his circle) that would have been made in the fourth century BC.
Saturday 7 May 2011
Monday 2 May 2011
Sunday 1 May 2011
Picasso revisits mythology as inspiration. Not many artists produce distinct older male nudes throughout the 20th Century. Keith Vaughn paints younger men as does David Hockney perhaps without the references of mythology and the Bible to fall blatantly back on in justification. Marino Marino the Italian sculptor makes use of the imagery of the nude male riding a horse, often falling.
Friday 29 April 2011
Silenus and other gods
Greek and Hellenic art, particularly sculpture features the older male nude form through the mythological figures of ancient gods such as Zeus, Poseidon or Neptune, Saturn, Hercules and Prometheus to name but a few. Renaissance artists such as Mantegna and later Rubens were inspired by these characters enough to paint them. Silenus the drunk is often a favourite subject, perhaps a safe vehicle to explore the eroticism of the nude older male . He is usually depicted being supported by satyrs or riding home drunk on a donkey, often portrayed as a kind of naked father Christmas with flowing white beard .However Mantegna depicts him as a short haired, clean shaven stout man and this is echoed in the work of Maerten Van Heemskerck.
Saturday 16 April 2011
Sunday 10 April 2011
Saturday 9 April 2011
Friday 8 April 2011
Thursday 7 April 2011
Tuesday 5 April 2011
Monday 4 April 2011
Friday 25 March 2011
John Coplans(1920-2003)-England
John Coplans the photographer used himself as a model in his photography creating sculptural, often ambiguous images with his own body, sometimes using his hands clasped together or his whole figure. Interestingly he avoided including his face as he felt that this would personalise the image too much.
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