01 work, The Art Of The Nude, David Nicholson's Mousetrap, with footnotes #221

David Nicholson

Mousetrap, c. 2015

Oil on canvas

Private collection

If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon or make a better mouse trap than his neighbors, though he builds his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door. Ralph Waldo Emerson

David Nicholson (Canadian, born 1970). Although the style and colour palette of the paintings and drawings of the Canadian-born David Nicholson bear a resemblance to the works of the Old Masters, they are unquestionably modern. Traditional culture juxtaposed with modernity is the starting point for his work. He has no educational background in the arts. He is a self-taught artist who acquired the techniques and aesthetics of the masters of the past, with Peter Paul Rubens, Egon Schiele, and Gustav Klimt as his role models. He finds inspiration in the works and the spirit of the past, which he endeavours to project onto the present. He is interested, among other things, in finding ways to transpose a single element from an old work into a modern painting. The pictorial world of the internet and depiction of women by his role models – Rubens, Klimt, and Schiele – are equally valuable sources of inspiration for his artistic process. This way, he comments on other pieces of art as well as on current topics such as the ideals of beauty, sexuality, and pornography. More on David Nicholson

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02 works, The Art Of The Nude, Edward Henry Weston's Nudes, with footnotes #217

Edward Henry Weston (1911-1993)

Nude, 1975

Gelatin silver print

10 3/8 x 13 5/8in (26.3 x 34.5cm)

Private collection

Sold for US$4,075 in May 2020

Edward Henry Weston (1886-1958)

Nude, 1925

Gelatin silver print

7 3/8 x 8 3/4in (18.7 x 22.2cm)

Private collection

Sold for US$2,550 in May 2020

Edward Henry Weston (March 24, 1886 – January 1, 1958) was an American photographer. He has been called "one of the most innovative and influential American photographers" and "one of the masters of 20th century photography." Over the course of his 40-year career Weston photographed an increasingly expansive set of subjects, including landscapes, still lifes, nudes, portraits, genre scenes, and even whimsical parodies. It is said that he developed a "quintessentially American, and especially Californian, approach to modern photography" because of his focus on the people and places of the American West. In 1937 Weston was the first photographer to receive a Guggenheim Fellowship, and over the next two years he produced nearly 1,400 negatives using his 8 × 10 view camera. Some of his most famous photographs were taken of the trees and rocks at Point Lobos, California, near where he lived for many years. More on Edward Henry Weston

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