ART / Subjects & Themes / Human Figure

Current paper · Semantic Scholar

The article examines the contribution of the embodied involvement in two different art traditions, Chinese literati painting and contemporary installation art. Although the two works are distinct in various cultural, temporal, and medium contexts, they both have a centre of attention on the body as a medium of art. The article then resorts to the Taoist aesthetics and Merleau-Ponty phenomenology of embodiment and im…

Reference · Wikidata

a representation of the human form in any medium

Encyclopedia · Wikipedia

The nude, as a form of visual art that focuses on the unclothed human figure, is an enduring tradition in Western art. It was a preoccupation of Ancient Greek art, and after a semi-dormant period in the Middle Ages returned to a central position with the Renaissance. Unclothed figures often also play a part in other types of art, such as history painting, including allegorical and religious art, portraiture, or the …

Image · Europeana

Full text · Open Library

"With forty major loans, including paintings, engravings, lithographs, watercolors, sculpture, and decorative arts, this new volume studies the way in which the visual arts in Europe perceived, or imagined, the black figure during the "long" nineteenth century (ca.1750-1914)"--

Image · DPLA

TITLE: Meissen figure of a girl with flowers