Is Jeff Koons’ Art Pornography? (18+)
Jeff Koons has been controversial from the very beginning of his career, which began in around 1979. Having experimented with inflatable bunnies,...
Magda Michalska 19 October 2023
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Rubens and Women at Dulwich Picture Gallery: Flesh and Spirit
Peter Paul Rubens is so famous for painting voluptuous nudes that his name has become an adjective to describe them. A new exhibition at Dulwich...
Catriona Miller 2 October 2023
The Intriguing Tale of Shocking Sheela Na Gig and Its Art References
Everyone remembers their first sighting of a Sheela Na Gig. Wandering around an old church, breathing in the architecture, the history, the silence.
Candy Bedworth 3 July 2023
We Are All Summertime Venuses: Beach Bodies in Art
Venus, who wouldn’t envy her? She is the embodiment of beauty, sexuality, and love. She is perhaps the most often depicted woman in art history.
Magda Michalska 2 May 2023
Picasso and His 15 Versions of Les Femmes d’Alger
When the Algerian War of Independence began on 1st November 1954, Pablo Picasso felt an urge to somehow respond to the violence and suffering that...
Magda Michalska 3 October 2021
Scandalous World of Hans Bellmer: Dolls, Ropes, and Erotic Photography
“I am human, and I think nothing human is alien to me”, said Terence, Roman playwright sometime in the 2nd century BCE. I think that art...
Magda Michalska 18 August 2021
I Modi: History of Erotic Art (NSFW)
Have you ever heard of I Modi (The Positions)? Also known as The Sixteen Pleasures or under the Latin title De omnibus Veneris Schematibus is a...
Zuzanna Stańska 26 May 2021
Best Male Nudes in Art History (NSFW!)
Nudity in art first became significant in ancient Greece. The athletic competitions at religious festivals celebrated the male body as an embodiment...
Anuradha Sroha 18 July 2020
Female Nude Codes in Painting From Giorgione’s Venus to Odalisques and Olympias
Museums are filled with paintings of nude women. It is a very codified practice that has changed over the ages. Giorgione’s Sleeping Venus...
Maia Heguiaphal 5 May 2020
