01 Work, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 71

Melinda Matyas, United Kingdom

Room without a view

Oil on Canva

15.7 W x 15.7 H x 0.8 in

Private collection

Melinda Matyas' work is based on the contemplation of the “hidden”, the “less visible”, searching the fragmentation and disintegration of the subject where the color and texture become the binding element. In her work the figurative representation breaks up, the forms are slightly falling apart giving free hand to the less visible to emerge, this way she is aiming to control and manipulate paint to dig out her subjects’ unsettling emotions revealing their innermost feelings, experiences, aspirations and hidden obsessions. Ideas taken from her daily life are transformed into possible painting subjects in her North London studio. Melinda is fascinated about color and texture, they equally define the figuration in her work. More on Melinda Matyas

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01 Work, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 70

Russell James

Ten New Angels, c. 2015

Archival Pigment Print

23 1/5 × 29 1/10 in, 59 × 74 cm

Private collection

Russell James (born 1962 in Perth) is a fashion, celebrity and beauty photographer. Russell was born in Western Australia and spent much of his childhood moving from city to city due to his working class father. After dropping out of school at age 14, Russell got his first job working in a factory that made trashcans. After working in the factory, Russell held several odd jobs to make ends met before becoming a police officer, which lasted several years. After traveling to Japan and Sweden Russell arrived in the United States in 1989.

James is most famous for his work as the main photographer for Victoria's Secret, but his work has appeared in a large range of magazines, including Vogue, Sports Illustrated, American Photo, W, Marie Claire, and GQ. James has worked with many celebrities and fashion models.

Russell James has appeared several times in America's Next Top Model and Australia's Next Top Model, as a guest photographer or judge.

James also directs art films, music videos, and television commercials for Victoria's Secret and Gillette. More on Russell James

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01 Work, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 69

Tom Wesselmann, American, 1931–2004

Great American Nude (From Banner), c. 1968

Silkscreen on Card Stock

14 × 15 in, 35.6 × 38.1 cm

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Tom Wesselmann (1931–2004) was one of the leading American Pop artists of the 1960s. Departing from Abstract Expressionism, he explored classical representations of the nude, still life, and landscape, while incorporating everyday objects and advertising ephemera.

Wesselmann was drafted into the US Army in 1952, two years into the Korean War. During his military service, he learned—then taught—aerial photography interpretation, and began to draw cartoons about his experiences. Upon his return to his hometown of Cincinnati, he completed a BA in psychology at the University of Cincinnati and began taking classes at the Art Academy of Cincinnati. In fall 1956, he moved to New York City to study art at the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art. At Cooper Union, he met Claire Selley, who would become his wife and lifelong muse. 

Living in Brooklyn, Wesselmann supported himself by selling cartoons to the Saturday Evening Post, “gag” magazines, and advertising agencies. In the late 1950s, he cofounded the Judson Gallery in the West Village with Marc Ratliff and Jim Dine. After completing his studies at Cooper Union, Wesselmann spent three years teaching high school art and math. During the evening, he continued to expand his own artistic practice, making small portrait collages. 

Wesselmann is highly regarded for his Great American Nude series (1961–73), which combines sensual depictions of the female figure with references to art history and popular culture. Many of these lounging female subjects were painted in patriotic red, white, and blue. In the late 1960s Wesselmann created close-up views of the nude in the Bedroom Paintings (1968–83). More on Tom Wesselmann

From 1967 through 1981 Wesselmann worked on his Standing Still Life paintings, monumental works comprising multiple canvases shaped according to the outline of the commonplace objects that they depict. After the Standing Still Lifes, Wesselmann continued to make three-dimensional sculptural work. He also developed an innovative technique of “drawing” with sculptural materials, cutting steel and aluminum in the shape of his drawn forms. His abstract works of the mid-1990s, through the early 2000s expanded this mode of working on a larger scale, and continued to push the boundaries between painting and sculpture. More on Tom Wesselmann

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01 Work, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 68

Peter-Wilhelm Klasen, (b. 1935)

Nu/Disjoncteur sur fond bleu/rouge/ Nude/Circuit Breaker on Blue/ Red Background, c. 1977 

Acrylic on canvas

93 x 73 cm - 36 5/8 x 28 3/4 in.

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Peter-Wilhelm Klasen is a German painter, photographer and sculptor, born in Lübeck in 1935.

Klasen grew up in a family sensitive to the arts. He started drawing and paining at a very young age. He learnt the techniques of lithography and the airbrushing. 

Industrial themes mark his work. one can discover in his paintings elements such as pressure gauges, metal locks, tarpaulin sheets for trucks and cars, hoses for hydraulic circuits. Logos, numbers and pictures from magazines or posters are also present in his paintings.

A master of contrast, he is fascinated by the hostility of the modern city and by the representations of the body as merchandise.

He has recently started to produce prints, adding to its diversity. We can discover the artist's interest in our society in his aquagravures. Industrial themes, body image, objects of consumption, advertisements etc - they all meet in his works that becomes a critical reflection of our social environment.

"Reality is no different than what I show you" - Peter Klasen. More on Peter Klasen

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01 Painting, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 67

Philip Pearlstein, (b. 1924)

Seated nude, 2003

Oil on panel

10 x 20 cm - 4 x 7 7/8 in.

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Philip Pearlstein, born on May 24, 1924 in Pittsburgh, PA, is an influential American painter best known for Modernist Realism nudes. Cited by critics as the preeminent figure painter of the 1960s to 2000s, he led a revival in realist art. He is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus with paintings in the collections of over 70 public art museums. 

Pearlstein attended classes at Pittsburgh's Carnegie Museum of Art. In 1942, at the age of 18, two of his paintings won a national competition sponsored by Scholastic Magazine, and were reproduced in color in Life magazine.

He was drafted by the US Army to serve during World War II and initially assigned to the Training Aids Unit where he produced charts, weapon assembly diagrams and signs. In this role, he learned printmaking and the screenprinting process, and subsequently was stationed in Italy, where he took in as much renaissance art as was accessible in Rome, Florence, Venice and Milan, and also produced numerous drawings depicting life in the Army.

In 1950 Philip enrolled in the Masters in Art History program at New York University Institute of Fine Arts. After graduation, he was hired by Life Magazine to do page layouts, and was then awarded a Fulbright Hays fellowship, enabling him to return to Italy for a year. Finally, from 1963 to 1988, he was Professor, and then Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Brooklyn College, in Brooklyn, NY. More on Philip Pearlstein

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01 Work, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 65

Mounir Fatmi, Moroccan, b. 1970

Evolution or Death (Phoebe), 2014

Chromogenic print

53 9/10 × 80 7/10 in, 137 × 205 cm

Private collection

Mounir Fatmi examines human vulnerability. He constructs visual environments (comprising such objects as saw blades, stereo speakers, construction hard hats, and flags) and plays with language in a way that questions preconceptions of politics and religion and unearths injustices buried by history. In his 2009 work The Machinery, 30 aggressive-looking industrial saw blades are inscribed with elaborately drawn Islamic poems relaying a peaceful message. Using current events as content for projects, Fatmi investigates the origins of contemporary issues and crises. More on Mounir Fatmi

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