OMG COVER UP THE JUNK From Wil Wheaton’s photo stream on Flickr

This statue is a replica of something famous (I can’t remember which one and art history isn’t my strong suit) but while it doesn’t have arms, it had quite the package.

Apparently, if people see a statue’s package on television, Baby Jesus kills a kitten, so the art department painted leaves and used them to cover up the offending hangy-down bits.

I thought it was hilarious that they had to do this, even though the statues were just in the background, and any sane person would be looking at Chris Kane or Noa Tishby.

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I couldn’t resist posting this when I discovered it on flickr. I’ve been following @wilw on twitter for some time and was leafing through his photostream on flickr when I found this treasure in an album for the recent Leverage episode The Two Live Crew Job. I’ve seen this episode but completely missed the statue and the clearly improvised oak leaf cover up. talk about unnecessary censorship!

Interlaced – 12×12 Oils on Canvas by Jennie Rosenbaum

I’ve begin to run low on my sources for nude quotes. at first I only put in quotes I believed in, and recently I’ve added quotes that I don’t necessarily agree with, just to show all sides and to perhaps play devils advocate. the original pornography quote a couple of weeks ago sparked off a very interesting discussion on facebook notes here and led to the follow up quote the next week.

last weeks quote is one that I originally had misgivings about. it seemed prudish and silly. but I’ve been thinking about it all weekend, and I think it has a different meaning to the one I originally ascribed. I now think it’s actually saying that nudity is mundane, so natural as to be unremarkable. and I think that’s an attitude we should all have.

well, except me I guess, I mean it is my livelihood.

I’ve been searching further afield for my quotes recently. some have come from blogs I read or books or other random sources. I like to change it up. I’d also like for people to submit their own nude quotes to me. you can do that by selecting the contact page on this blog and sending me your quote and a link.

I may even run a competition at some point – what do you think?

Digital Art

I’ve been a little slack in updating these images on my blog. I’ve been adding them to my Facebook Fan Page pretty much as they are done but my foggy brain forgets that I need to add them here as well.

This is the render in response to my original sketch. After creating a quick sketch I ‘flesh’ the idea out with a 3D render of the subject. this is where I can really play with lighting, mood and get the pose just right. The final oil painting is a combination of the two. I’ve been very excited and inspired by volumetric lighting recently (the beams of light like there were dust motes or fog in the air around the model) and am looking forward to getting into the studio to work out how I will produce these effects in oils.

I wouldn’t do nudity in films. To act with my clothes on is a performance. To act with my clothes off is a documentary.

Julia Roberts

Last week I was in kind of a numb shell. one that I’ve tried to appease with retail therapy and mindless facebook games. why do bad things happen to good people?

This is a painting I have been working on for almost a year. I am not sure if it will ever be finished. it’s a highly emotional work created at a very emotional time. I bring it out, work on it for a while and put it away again. I feel that now is a good time to bring it to the light of day. I need to stop hiding it and hiding from it. I created it to try to explore some difficult feelings and to try to communicate them somehow. in my mind it was dedicated to a very special and very strong couple. it is now dedicated to two.

I am very sorry for your loss.

a response to last week’s quote:

Pornogrpahy says more about the societies in which it exists, and is suppressed, than it does about the individuals producing or consuming it.

Peter Ryan

Pornography tells lies about women. But pornography tells the truth about men.

John Stoltenberg

Richard Prince, Spiritual America IV, 2005 -Via Eloge de l’Art par Alain Truong

The controversial nude photo of Brooke Shields has now been replaced by a later version and will go on show from today, according to Tate Modern.

The ‘photograph of a photograph’, by artist Richard Prince, was removed from the show -following police advice – before it opened on 1 October.

In a statement, Tate Modern said this afternoon: ‘In consultation with the artist, Richard Prince, Tate has replaced Spiritual America 1983 with a later version of the work made by him in collaboration with Brooke Shields, Spiritual America IV 2005. The room reopens to the public on Tuesday 13 October.’

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This is a fairly elegant way around the problem at hand – it fits with the theme of the exhibition and was made in full cooperation with Brooke Shields. it’s also an original work by Prince, rather than a photograph of a photograph. It does not have the same depth as the previous work, however one cannot deny that legally it is a much safer work for many reasons.

Gary Gross, the taker of the original photograph was disappointed that it was removed from the Tate – I guess because out of all of the names in this mess his was the only one that really needed and received publicity.

Consternation – 12 x 12 Oils on Canvas by Jennie Rosenbaum

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This came up in my newsfeed alert for nude art and I wanted to include it as someone obviously spent a great deal of time on it. hey, copying and pasting and randomly substituting words can be an artform too nudeart. I am not including a link as, obviously, it led to a porn site.

guys, this is not nudeart. it’s not even nude art. please stop tainting my artform by association kthxbai. and google news, filter better! you can’t accept a site written by one person but you can accept this?

Nakedness is uncomely, as well in mind as body, and it addeth no small reverence to men’s manners and actions if they be not altogether open. Therefore set it down: That a habit of secrecy is both politic and moral.

Francis Bacon