Tag: nude

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newwavenova:

secretlesbians:

Gustave Courbet, Le Sommeil,1866.

Le Sommeil [The Sleepers], which depicts two women entwined in a post-coital embrace, caused a stir when it was first shown in the 1870s. The police were called in, and the painting was not shown again until the 1980s. But its brief showing had an influence on a number of contemporary artists, and helped challenge the taboos associated with lesbian relationships. For modern audiences it’s a good reminder that people in the 19th century were not ignorant of lesbian relationships, as we tend to believe. And it’s pretty damn sexy, don’t you think?

They called the police on this lesbian painting.

*cop voice* I dunno, ma’am, looks like gal pals to me.

enfantferoce:

This was once the most common representation of female bodies. The rolls of fat and pudgy bellies existed along with thick thighs and broad hips. Some of those bodies were slim, some were chubby, some were fat, but they weren’t stretched out and smoothed out in Photoshop. They acted like bodies do, they looked real and believable. We lost that somewhere along the way, when people in the fashion business started wiping out any inconvenient fold, making us think they don’t exist and to have them is a blasphemy. Maybe it’s about time we remember they are perfectly normal and everyone has them, sometimes or all the time, no matter skinny or fat.

W-A Bouguereau: Elegy, Guilliaume Seignac: Young Woman Naked, Guillaume Seignac: Psyche, Jean-Jacques Henner: Salome, Peter Paul Rubens: Venus in front of the mirror, James Pradier: Odalisque, Guillaume Seignac: In the forrest, Sebastiano Ricci: Venus and Cupid, G. L. Bernini: Pluto and Proserpina.