Another influential painter who is a favorite of mine is Amedeo Modigliani. I have a print of the above painting in my home. His love of the female form is clear in his work. (The background story is that he would pay for a prostitute just to be able to paint a nude portrait of her. The above featured model was a lady of the evening. Apparently, these women often took pity on Amedeo and threw-in a fuck for free. It didn’t hurt that he was roguishly handsome and supremely talented.) The above work sold at auction for more than 170 million dollars! (Not the highest priced record-holder, but that’s up there.)
Modigliani is the artist who is famously known for elongating his model’s necks when painting everyday portraits. Notice how he’s subtly done that here with the model’s torso, reminiscent of the way the sculpture of Michelangelo’s David’s hands are enlarged.
Most of Amedeo’s nudes are posed reclining, so this is unusual. The art history text that this comparison is taken from made the point that he was influenced by African art (masks in particular), just as Picasso was.
Finally, as the ass aficionado I am, I wanted to include this pose. This is (fortunately) a very popular pose for artists to choose for their models, as I’ll discuss in a future post.
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9 responses to “#319) Modigliani”
I could go on and on by discussing artists such as Van Gogh and Rembrandt and Monet and Manet, all personal favorites, but I won’t (maybe because none of them painted nude women’s butts).
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My great-grandfather, Karl Ernst Osthaus, bought various paintings by Paul Gauguin in 1903 and founded the first modern museum in Germany.
It is the Folkwang Museum in Essen.
Unfortunately, Gauguin’s paintings are all of beautiful women from the front. No beautiful asses.
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One of Gauguin’s paintings sold at auction for over 200 million dollars, I believe. I love his story, running away to Polynesia to paint the native women (but then I wasn’t the wife he left behind)! Fascinating background, Christian!
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Do you also follow art photography? I’m a fan of Ellen von Unwerth’s work. There are definite BDSM overtones to some of it.
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I was not familiar with this photographer until I Googled her work. Thank you for turning me on to her, Karl!
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Very nice! Are you familiar with Egon Schiele? He has some interesting nudes as well.
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I had to Google this artist, too, erosprism, but love some of his work, especially Woman in Black Stockings!
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I don’t know much about art history but I know what I like. Did any of the great (or even semi-great) artists paint an OTK spanking piece? I believe wife spanking has been done probably since Eve ate the forbidden fruit so surely someone honored this practice by painting it.
Thanx for the post!
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I’ve been looking, paddlefan, but all I’ve found are models who look like they’ve been ravished, whether by sex or by spanking we’ll never know.
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