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Art Boobs
Art Boobs has moved to http://artboobs.posterous.com/ is about fine art that prominently features female breasts. It prefers the voluptuousness of the Venus of Willendorf
over the hardbodied Venus de Milo.
It celebrates the idea that throughout history societies have often tolerated artistic nudity more than actual nudity.
It could have been called Artits.
The author is male, Dutch and married to an artist.
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“The world is my oyster” (2010) by Artists Anonymous_Espacio Negativo.
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Dec 15
Dec 04
“Female Figurine”, Predynastic Period, Naqada II Period, ca. 3650 B.C. - 3300 B.C. Terracotta, painted, (34 x 12.7 x 6.4 cm) 13 3/8 x 5 x 2 1/2 inches. Place excavated: Burial no. 2, El Ma’mariya, Egypt, Africa. Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund.
An installation of more than 170 objects selected from the Brooklyn Museum’s world-famous holdings of ancient Egyptian material explores the complex rituals related to the practice of mummification and the Egyptian belief that the body must be preserved in order to ensure eternal life. “The Mummy Chamber” will open at the Brooklyn Museum on May 5 and will remain on long-term view.
via www.artdaily.org
Dec 03
Malia Jensen, Untitled Salt Breast 1, 2009, Richard Gray Gallery
My favorite art blogger PADDY JOHNSON (Art Fag City) is in Miami and writes: Surely Jensen is not the sole artist working in the field art boobery, and we intend to use the Miami fairs to prove this hypothesis (follow AFC on twitter here). “Untitled Salt Breast” one earns distinction for innovative use of salt licks, though, what else would you carve out that block anyway?
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Nov 23
Kishin Shinoyama - VIRGIN LISA 254*203 1970 Gelatin Silver Print
Born in 1940, Tokyo, Japan. Photographer. Beginning his career while studying in department of photography in Nippon University, he won the Advertising Photographer’s Assosiation Award and other prizes. After working in the advertising company; Light Publisity, he started to work as a freelance photographer from 1968. His work is renowned for taking portraits of the most recognized people of our time such as, Momoe Yamaguchi, John Lennon&Yoko Ono and Rie Miyazawa. In his “Gekisha” and “Shinorama” pieces, he keeps capturing the time with new modes of expression and new technologies. With his recent multi-media project; digi+KISHIN, all done digitally, he brings a new perspective to the both fields of photography and motion picture.
Nov 21
Helmut Newton “PORTRAIT OF ERNESTO ESPOSITO AND FREDERICA DELLA VOLPE, MONTECATINI, ITALY”. 1989 Gelatin silver print. 19 1/8 x 19 1/2 in. (23 7/8 x 19 7/8 in.)) From an edition of ten numbered prints.
