NATURALLY NAKED 18+ Automatic translate
с 15 Августа
по 28 ДекабряГалерея Гари Татинцяна
Серебряническая набережная, 19
Москва
The Naturally Naked exhibition is an artistic depiction of nudity in the works of world famous artists inspired by postmodern masters.
"There is no person on Earth who can make a final verdict on what could be the most beautiful form of a human being."
Albrecht Durer
The study and artistic depiction of the human body has always been featured in the history of art, from the primitive forms of Venus of Willendorf to the erotic ornamental paintings of Gustav Klimt. The erasure of the boundaries between realistic nakedness and nakedness as a way of artistic expression, begun by Francisco Goya (“Mach Dressed” and “Mach Naked”) later developed in the works of the Impressionists - Eduard Manet, Edgar Degas and Gustav Courbet - inspiring artists of subsequent centuries to numerous experiments in nudity.
Paul Cezanne, the recognized founder of post-impressionism, used the term “couillard” to describe his work, defining the provocative nature of his work, filling the academic subjects with veiled traces of eroticism. Presented as a work of art, the human body in the canvases of Cezanne demonstrated the attractiveness of nudity in its natural form, challenging conventions and the generally accepted censure of openness. “Naked art” parted with the veiled staging scenes and rapidly developed in the works of the richest representatives of symbolism, expressionism, cubism and surrealism.
“There is no beauty that does not have strangeness in proportion,” - Francis Bacon.
The image of nudity with elements of eroticism invariably encountered the problem of containing sexuality within the framework of the current era, often ahead of the traditions and foundations of its time. The apogee of realistic painting with clear sexual connotation to this day remains Gustave Courbet’s The Origin of the World, created in 1866. Despite the rapid progress and expansion of the boundaries of what is permitted in visual art, many works by 20th-century classics were perceived by contemporaries as excessively sentimental, descriptive, and striving to idealize external sensuality.
Actual art, free to choose a method of representation, focused on conceptual issues in the image of the human body. Modern conceptual painting and sculpture represent a person as he is, not idealizing his image, but rather, deliberately deforming, exaggerating and focusing on the imperfections inherent in real life. Against the backdrop of the rapid development of modern technologies, social networks, the media and methods of self-expression, the human body ceases to be a plot, becoming the main tool for the artist’s self-expression. Using various artistic techniques - from ironic allusion to grotesque - in painting, hyper- and photorealism, the artist becomes a kind of initiator of the discussion to express the problematic issues of society and the phenomenon of the “naturally naked” person in the eyes of modern society.
Free admission.
18+