Friday, 25 October 2013
Today I must to talk about an article from
The Guardian, I choose “Man
up: European art and the male nude” of Jonathan Jones. This article speaks
about two exhibitions this autumn that shows draws of naked men body (Wallace
Collection's The Male Nude, and Masculine/Masculine: The Nude Man in Art from 1800 to the Present Day,
also this article talk about a third collection Tate Britain’s Art Under Attack,
but only for a reference of a pagan idol, naked, on a stained). Also we can
read about the story of how beauty is naked men body, it’s European art
tradition. In ancient Greek painters and sculptors thinks that “Male beauty was a
bit of heaven on earth, to be apprehended by a truly philosophical love”, they appreciated
this beauty through art, studied male bodies, buttocks, biceps, backs, etc.
This Greek love
of male body rebirth for Italian artist in the 15th century, a
example for this is Michelangelo, who drew male nudes (well, it was because he
desired men in a sexual way). The European artist
immortalized Greek men, like “Leonidas at Thermopylae” of J-L David.
Maybe this article was a little excessive
about the “love between two men” or “how beauty is male body”, but it was so
poetic and interesting, I really want to see this exhibition.
