Does My Bum Look Big in This?
Explore the representation of the female body and buttocks in art, celebrating diversity and beauty across history and modern culture.
Candy Bedworth 29 January 2026
Erotica
Does My Bum Look Big in This? The Female Body in Art
Explore the representation of the female body and buttocks in art, celebrating diversity and beauty across history and modern culture.
Candy Bedworth 29 January 2026
Pretty Women: Female Beauty and the Three Graces in Paintings
Paintings depicting the Three Graces appear consistently throughout art history. Although the characters remain the same, their representation...
Rute Ferreira 29 January 2026
The Pornographic World of Egon Schiele’s Nudes
Egon Schiele’s nudes can challenge us and our preconceptions of the artistic tradition of the “nude”. He didn’t paint or draw idealized...
Zuzanna Stańska 27 January 2026
Egon Schiele: Art on the Verge of Eroticism and Pathology
The provocative artworks of the Austrian Expressionist Egon Schiele are not just about exploring the sexuality of human bodies. The artist also...
Nataliia Pecherska 27 January 2026
QUIZ: The Nude in Art
Candy Bedworth 24 January 2026
Male Nudes to Celebrate Men’s Health
Campaigning for raising awareness about prostate cancer, testicular cancer, men’s depression, and suicide is important. Today we are showing you...
Magda Michalska 19 November 2025
Are You a Connoisseur of Male Beauty? A Nude Invasion!
According to the famous poster by Guerrilla Girls, 85% of nudes in Western art history are of women. They were subject to the male gaze, presented on...
Magda Michalska 19 November 2025
The Greatest Male Nudes in Art History
Nudity started being an important subject in art in ancient Greece. The male body was celebrated at sports competitions or religious festivals, it...
Anuradha Sroha 19 November 2025
Celebrating the Male Body in Renaissance Florence
The adoration of the male body was an inspiration for many artists and there is no medium better suited to presenting the full beauty and complexity...
Joanna Kaszubowska 19 November 2025
All You Must Know About Japanese Erotic Art, Shunga
Ukiyo-e art, pictures of the “floating world,” are famous among those interested in art history. Everyone knows Hokusai’s Great Wave. Ukiyo-e...
Zuzanna Stańska 5 November 2025
Powerful or Problematic? Robert Mapplethorpe’s Photographs
Photographer Robert Mapplethorpe shocked the world with his images of bondage, gay sex, female bodybuilders and naked black men. Technically brilliant or politically problematic, what do you think?
Candy Bedworth, Guest Author 4 November 2025
