Perpetual Lab: September 2022

More Classical Nudes

Raphael (Urbino 1483-Rome 1520) - The Three Graces

Raphael’s The Three Graces, c1517-18. Photograph: Royal Collection Trust/© Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II

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Ingres, The Turkish Bath

The Beauty of Female Anatomy

Jan van Rijn is the nom d’artiste of a large and growing oeuvre of drawings and graphics in his own distinctive style of eroticism, which have now been collected in more than half a dozen limited edition books, renewing and maintaining a long tradition of beautiful collectable volumes.

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Van Rijn (hinting at the link with Rembrandt van Rijn, the greatest of all Dutch painters) grew up in the Netherlands, but is now based in southern Germany, as he says ‘backed up by my beautiful female companion and the mostly moderate use of the flavonoids, polyphenols and phytoalexins to be found in French red wine and some rieslings of the mid-Rhine valley’. As well as producing artworks in a variety of media including dry point etching, mezzotint, engraving and digital prints, he is also a stonemason and sculptor.

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Fellow artist Kayla Freedman has written of his work, ‘Jan van Rijn has a very distinctive style, taking more standard erotic model poses and rendering them in an exaggerated and sexually corpulent fashion. There are no anorexic waifs – the bodies are fleshy and unashamedly sexual. His figures seem to revel in their exhibitionism and wantonness.

pretty things

a former beauty queen, her apple-cheeks now fully ripened

Yes, you can ogle, but nothing more. OK?

Yes, my belly sags, my breasts are huge, but my boyfriends love me this way

A WOMAN who is constantly trolled for being ‘fat’ says she’ll never go to the gym because her 23st frame is ‘sexy’. Former beauty consultant, Olivia Messina, 27, from Toronto, Canada, loves showing off her size 22 body in skimpy clothes and promoting body positivity. But while the plus size advocate receives plenty of praise, she is criticised in equal measure by bullies who say she’s risking early death and promoting obesity. Here Olivia tells Fabulous why she’s proud to be plus size, and explains why being bigger makes her MORE successful… (From The Sun, notorious UK tabloid)

Golden Nudes

See The Art of Paolo Serpieri

The Art of Rebecca Morgan

Winner of the Country Life competition for best home bottler in 2020

I suppose you're on of those Paparazzi

Juxtapoz Rebecca Morgan 007

Another one for Country Life

self-portrait after Mantegna 2022

panty-stealers after Diana and Actaeon, 2019

untitled

self-portrait 2014

Rather than assimilating into the art world and making her figures inhabit an urban environment, Morgan depicts social types long mocked by the mainstream media. Morgan’s hillbilly characters are the not-so-distant cousins of the poor citizens of Dogpatch, the fictional village found in the long running syndicated comic strip Lil Abner, and the less fortunate friends of the Clampett family, the central characters on the popular TV comedy The Beverly Hillbillies. The primary difference is that Morgan’s figures are more unselfconscious, rotund, raunchy, uncouth, loony, and scandalous than their mainstream counterparts. A dark satirical streak runs through her work.