Click image for an even hotter summer.
Why would you pay any attention to stupid males if you have such a gorgeous view? Soft rolling hills and smooth lines.
Photographer: Anyone knows the great artista behind this shot?
Click image for an even hotter summer.
Why would you pay any attention to stupid males if you have such a gorgeous view? Soft rolling hills and smooth lines.
Photographer: Anyone knows the great artista behind this shot?
Another one of Klimt’s golden ladies. He was truly addicted to the beauty and charm of woman.
But you should be aware of the cut off head in the right corner. This princess is a dangerous one - guys literally loose their head around her.
To use an old phrase: she is the beauty and the beast in one package.
Bert Stern shot in June 1962 the last session with Madame Monroe - the famous last sitting (there is a great book out there with all the shots).
The New York Magazine tried to recreate this great series (click Slideshow to see it) with less desirable Lindsay Lohan - and again Bert Stern as the Master of Light.
Sure Lohan and Marilyn are both addicts in their own way. But Miss Lohan is hardly in the same class as the great MM.
Please: if you can’t come up with great ideas for your own photo shot - don’t fake classic images. Remakes are usually weak and only show your own lack of creativity. Classics are simply classics. Leave them alone.
Nude act photography as well as painting and drawing are the grammar school of visual art. Here the visual artists studies and explore the human form - strangely enough mostly only the female form. You can find a gazillion of nude acts from great old master like Man Ray, Weston and Stieglitz. Still any young modern photographer has to go though the same positions, the same shots and compositions.
On the other side we viewers never seem to get enough of the human shape? People like watching people - no matter if they have seen that person only once of a thousand times. We are addicted to ourselves - our proportions and gestures.
So Man Ray once delivers another celebration of mankind.
Various artists - couldn’t find any credits, sorry!
The male shape is as ‘normal’ and beautiful as the female form. What annoys me is that often male act photography is only meant for the gay community (like many female acts border to normal porn). I am the last person lambasting porn anyway - but sometimes a great image of the human form is simply enough for me and amazing enough.
Can’t we celebrate our own shapes without going all juicy?
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Once of the most iconic images of European art - and one of the greatest goddesses of all times. If you look around you we are surrounded by fit young and blonde Sisters of Venus these days.
Her breasts are a bit too small compared to the current beauty ideal and her facial expression is also a bit too innocent. We like our woman a bit more slutty these days.
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Gustave Dore is a giant. He created amazing illustrations and paintings. Too bad that modern publishers hardly illustrate their books anymore.
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Another classic from one of my favorite painters. This painting feels fresh and vibrant. Her nudity is natural - not extra sexy and not extra horny.
The only thing I want to see now: what happens when that wave hits her? 
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Hypatia is one of my biggest heroes and one of the saddest stories I know (from Wikipedia):
Hypatia was the daughter of Theon, who was her teacher and the last fellow of the Musaeum of Alexandria. Hypatia did not teach in the Musaeum, but received her pupils in her own home. Hypatia became head of the Platonist school at Alexandria in about 400. There she taught on mathematics and philosophy, and counted many prominent Christians among her students. No images of her exist, but nineteenth-century writers and artists envisioned her as an Athene-like beauty.
In 391, Theophilus, the patriarch of Alexandria, ordered the destruction of some of the native Roman pagan temples in the city, which may have included the Musaeum and certainly included the Serapeum (a temple for the worship of Serapis and "daughter library" to the Great Library). In the same year Emperor Theodosius I had published an edict prohibiting various aspects of pagan worship, whereupon (although this was part of a wider phenomenon) Christians throughout the Roman Empire embarked upon a thorough campaign to destroy or christianize pagan places of worship.
Hypatia lived during a conflict between pagans and Christians, who were demanding the final destruction of paganism as an imperial institution. Hypatia, herself a pagan, was respected by many Christians, and was even exalted by a few later Christian authors as a symbol of virtue, often being portrayed by them as a virgin until her death.
Theories about the origins of the mob violence that ended Hypatia’s life range from a local, spontaneous Christian uprising tolerated by the Christian Patriarch Cyril of Alexandria over a conflict between Cyril and the city prefect Orestes; to a conspiracy by the Emperor himself; to a lawless, civilian "peasant stock" mob (soldiers are never mentioned) made up of Christians and non-Christians alike, led by a man named "Peter". Another point of view holds that Hypatia was part of a rebellion and her murder inevitable.
Basically she was murdered for religious and political reasons. She is one of the many Martyrs of Science. She died like so many before and after her, because she simply knew too much and was ahead of her times.
Some more information about the painting and the artist here.
Usually I am not a big fan of such shots - but in this case I like that almost graphical style of the image processing. Very cool!
The powerful magic of Mr Klimt’s colors. He just mixes them like nobody else …
I wonder if this was considered porn during it’s days?
A bag of tricks - that’s all a modern women needs …
Photographer: unknown - can anyone help?
Every day should start like that … a cosmic muse smiling down on us mere mortals …
Apart from the nice Lady - all our psyches need to cleaned and relaxed in a steamy bath from time to time. Your psyche - like your body - needs care and proper maintenance. And make sure not to feed your many any crap that comes around - like your stomach it won’t digest bad mental food properly.
All a guy needs: some gold, a fast transport system, a shelter and a hot bride at his side. Once again the great Dita van Teese in an exciting pixelation of an old theme. Too bad I dunno the photographer behind this great shot!
Official Site: DitasDomain.org
Women are dangerous - we all know that. But Mr Rossetti’s ladies are the most beautiful of them all. Although his type seems to be redheads. Oh well, more fire for him!
The Lost Pleiad - another great human study by Maestro Bouguereau. Don’t we humans love watching other humans? Even if it’s just on canvas …
