CLASSICAL REFLECTIONS 2
Only after closing my studio last year did I discover that among the images I’ve shot, many echo artworks created hundreds (and sometimes even thousands!) of years ago — artworks that must not be dismissed as prurient: their beauty is treasured by museums across the world.
In this respect, my efforts join those of countless generations of artists who have sought to capture on canvas and even in stone the many strengths of women, their depths, and the natural loveliness that it is their unique privilege to bear.
Herebelow are just a few of those classical reflections. If at first you don’t see the similarity, look again . . . and more closely.
Anicinco
GraceFoto (2014)
Artist Unknown, Nude Sculpture
Brooklyn Museum (c. 3500 B.C.)
Rayne
GraceFoto (2015)
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Three Bathers
Art Gallery of New South Wales (1913)
Arthur B. Davies, Nude Studies
Metropolitan Museum of Art (1909)
Alyssa
GraceFoto (2018)
Izebel
GraceFoto (2016)
Artist and date
not found
Jules Joseph Lefebvre, The Grasshopper
National Gallery Victoria, Meourne (1872)
Inna
GraceFoto (2015)
Sergey Konenkov, Winged
Tretyakov Gallery Moscow (1913)
Maxtastic
GraceFoto (2014)
Maxtastic
GraceFoto (2014)
Titian, Venus Anadyomene
Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh (c. 1520)
Aysell
GraceFoto (2016)
Guy Head, Iris Carrying Water of River Styx
Nelson-Atkins Museum, Kansas City (c. 1793)
Edvard Munch, Madonna
Musée Munch à Oslo (1894)
Bella
GraceFoto (2012)
Artist Unknown, Naked
(n.d.)
Tigerin
GraceFoto (2014)
Schiele, Stehender Männlicher Rückenakt
Private Collection (1910)
Jackie
GraceFoto (2014)
Egon Schiele, Stehendes Nacktes Mädchen
Leopoldmuseum, Wien (1914)
Raechel
GraceFoto (2016)
Rachel
GraceFoto (2013)
Edvard Munch, Kneeling Female Nude
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (1919)