Previous (post-Renaissance)
5. Modern (post-photography)
Henry Holiday's working drawing for "The Landing" from "The Hunting of the Snark" by Lewis Carroll (1876) was presumably intended for his eyes only... | ![]() | |
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"Just the place for a Snark!" the Bellman cried, | ||
| Picasso submitted this pencil drawing of a heavy-thighed man to enter the Barcelona School of Fine Arts in 1895 when he was14. | ![]() |
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A jovial minotaur and man in Picasso's 1933 "Bacchanale" share a post-coital drink. | |
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Museum of Modern Art, New York
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John Singer Sargent
"Nude Study of Thomas E. McKeller" (1917-1920)
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Henry H. and Zoe Oliver Sherman Fund
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"Adam and Eve" by Eric Gill (1882-1940) | |
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"Dancers" by Eric Gill | |
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![]() | Dali often used | ![]() | Salvador Dali (1904-1989), Enfant Sauterelle |
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"Oedipus" (1933)
by Keith Vaughan (1912-1977)
Keith thought that the omens at his birth were auspicious: "Apart from being a healthy baby it was observed that my penis possessed a loose and easily retractable foreskin which was not considered necessary to circumcise according to the custom of my class. For this piece of good fortune I have had many occasions to be grateful."
- "Keith Vaughan: his life and work" (1990) |
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M. C. Escher's intiguing etchings routinely show any nude males as intact, such as this Buddha-like figure (in Mosaic II, 1957) ... | ||
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| ... and not only the optimists emerging from this frieze (Encounter, 1944) ![]() but also, as Escher's working drawings show, ... |
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Paul Cadmus (1904-1999) finely details his model's penis |
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David Hockney's 1967 illustration to C P Cavafy's poems stresses line, rather than shading, giving a flat look to the model's penis, though the sulcus and acroposthion are indicated. | |
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Conversely Francisco Lòpez's 1973 nude torso is finely shaded, emphasising the penis' dorsal vein. | |
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While the character of Gollum in the film of The Lord of the Rings is almost entirely computer-generated and wears a tiny loincloth that doesn't seem to hide much, oversized models were used by Weta Workshops to help make him so lifelike, and a picture of one in Cinefex magazine shows the artists conceived him as intact, as is a maquette of the Cave Troll in the Lord of the Rings exhibition - as of course they should be (but it wouldn't be so certain if they were made in the US). Picture to come. |
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![]() Angela's Men is a gallery |
Paul Davis Jones of Phildelphia has painted a series |
This entire sequence - the previous five pages - has been turned into a slide show with music, off-site. |
Jonathan Yeo painted two portraits of entrepreneur Ivan Massow three months apart, during which Massow lost three stone (19 kg) and grew a beard.
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In his book "Uncut: the natural history of the foreskin", Sherwin Carlquist includes a sequence of Annie Liebowitz-like portraits of intact penises in natural settings.
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"Redemption Song" by Laura Lacey stands 3.3m (11 feet) tall in Emancipation Park, Kingston, Jamaica. | |
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"Event Horizon" by British artist Antony Gormley consists of four cast-iron and 27 fibreglass casts of his own nude body,
placed at ground level and poised on the edges of buildings. It was exhibited in London in 2007 and in New York in 2010.
It may have taught the young man in the green sweater something he won't learn at Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine.
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