![]() ![]() ![]() The right is the Eiffel tower the left are houses the bridge over the Seine. The three graces are not the main characters but the ordinary participants in the great event called Paris. The city of Paris showed us that the essence of painting is all of colors and lights. The eyes of the nude are very attracting.ĭuring the destructive period, Robert Delaunay had already departed from the Cubist line and turned to the blurry smear Post-impressionist. In his art, the stylistic woman is seen lying on a bed. Modigliani is well known for his series of nude sprawling women paintings. After lots of trials and obstacles, the two culprits got immortalized and the two in love beings as portrayed in the painting ascended to heaven where they married and remained happily after that. The unexpected or rather the expected to us happened! Instead, Cupid fell in love with Psyche. Out of rage, Goddess Venus ordered Cupid her son lure Psyche to make love with a beast. The inspiration behind the Abduction of Psyche painting was based on the Latin novel, not surprisingly known as the Golden Ass! In the myth, Princess Psyche couldn't fathom the fact that Goddess Venus was earning more beauty accolades than herself. The Abduction of Psyche 1895 by William-Adolphe Bouguereau For the mermaid, the endless murmur of waters couldn't be compared to the sounds of humans and this creature couldn't enjoy the joy of womanhood.Ĥ. The painting in a symbolic way explains the ever insatiable human longings. Any relationship between sailors and mermaids was doomed as mermaids couldn't leave in a human land and sailors couldn't live in water. In the painting, the mermaid is seen sitting on the shores rather lonely and caressing her hair while her lips seem to be melancholy singing a song. In the old days, mermaids were known to lure sailors to death with their enchanting bodies and songs. Waterhouse portrayed the fierce and dark mythology of mermaids. A Mermaid 1900 by John William Waterhouse No one may know the subject of the composition, but suggestions are made that it probably depicts Venus as a symbol of beauty and love, a thing all men agree.ģ. What is most striking is thus she appears in a “no clothes body” but very wise to cover her part of her body with her right hand and her genitals with her long hair. The Birth of Venus painting is displayed showing the Goddess Venus landing at the shore after her birth with her fully grown body. To show her seriousness, Lady Godiva stripped all her clothes and rode on a horse across the streets of Coventry naked! The people loved her very much by her great dedication and no one went outside to avoid making the Lady embarrassed. ![]() He told if Lady Godiva dared to be naked on the streets he would decrease the taxes as required. His loving wife Lady Godiva was so much disgusted with this and kept on arguing his husband to lower the taxes. According to the story, the ruler of Anglo Saxon earl of Mercia mistreated his people by imposing very high taxes on them. The nude painting of Lady Godiva by John Maler Collier was based on a legendary story. Let's now have a look at some of the top famous nude paintings of all times! These paintings thus were used to convey religious experiences as well as to establish behavior models and teach. It can also be traced that ancient Greece and Romans painted nude pictures to represent their gods and goddesses. People therefore never charged those nude portrait but instead perceived them as expressions of beauty, love, sex, and fertility. No matter how erotic the paintings were during this early period, the arts had severe religious functions as well as they acted as representations of various fertility deities.īoth male and female nude paintings were in antiquity, especially in ancient Greece. That time is popularly known as the classical period. Nude paintings can be dated back in the 6th-7th century BC in Greece. Naked figures have been used by different artists to show the beauty of both men and women and some other qualities evolving around these two genders. The nude figure is a contemporary and hotly perceived tradition in western art. ![]()
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