The show opens up a dialog on the future development of the ink figure paintings. Wang Yingchun, a veteran ink artist on show, says the style of classical figure paintings has evolved greatly over ...

The works of Gyzis, Papaloukas, Volanakis, Flora-Karavia, Tsarouchis, and more contemporary forces like Rorris and Kessanlis, ...

Representation was “suspect,” political sensitivity to depictions of the figure ... casual paintings of men seem half-lifted from Renaissance frescos, half from Guess jeans ads. It is a tension that, ...

ideal male beauty in classical sculpture generally depicts penises of average or less than average size. Social attitudes have radically transformed how we idealize the male figure, ushering in a ...

When you think of Frederic Leighton, eminent Victorian, president of the Royal Academy, painter of that staple of the gift card market, Flaming June, it’s probably classical figure paintings ...

Taking center stage is a forgotten figure from the classical world ... “The Odyssey” and his image figures prominently on vase paintings. His death was recounted in the “Aethiopis ...

Elie Nadelman was an American-Polish artist whose work married the genres of classical sculpture and folk art. His sculptures of women and animals combined soft stylization with the industrial ...