Recent Posts Tagged With 'Nude'

• Beowulf's Femme Fatale

  Posted on Friday May 23rd, 2008 at 22:37 in Nude, equality, angelina jolie, femme fatale, anthony hopkins, robin wright penn, alison lohman, john malkovich, ray winstone, 'beowulf'

  Ray Winstone as Beowulf and Angelina Jolie as Grendel's MotherWhen I saw this ad on a billboard for the movie 'Beowulf', (directed by Robert Zemeckis 2007) I just had to see it. This film was created with digital animation and the whole thing has the...

• Venus and Olympia

  Posted on Saturday April 26th, 2008 at 23:20 in feminism, Nude, fine art, nudes, masturbation, venus, turkish bath, olympia, ingres, titian, manet, venus of urbino

  While I was at college, I was set this essay question: "In his early work, Manet was heavily influenced by the old masters. What do you make of this?"Kind of a strange question. What I made of it was this: In his early work, Manet was heavily influen...

• The Body Shape Revolution

  Posted on Thursday April 24th, 2008 at 00:42 in magazine, anorexia, Nude, body image, cosmopolitan, natural women

  Cosmo published a section in this month's issue entitled 'The Body Shape Revolution and Where You Fit In'. It featured images of women similar to those in the image below.How nice of Cosmo to define a catalogue of standard body types to help us under...

• The Rock of Doom

  Posted on Wednesday April 23rd, 2008 at 20:15 in Nude, voyeur, body image, sexism, gender bias

  'The Rock of Doom', by Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones was painted between 1885 and 1887. This painting is the sixth in Burne-Jones' Perseus Cycle. This picture, like others in the series, draws upon the version of the Perseus legend that appears in Wil...

• Real Women

  Posted on Tuesday April 22nd, 2008 at 21:16 in magazine, Nude, body image, cosmopolitan, natural women

  "Real women, sizes 6-16 NAKED. No retouching, just brave readers, nude and honest..." So reads the cover of this month's Cosmopolitan Magazine. This is in keeping with the publication's 'Body Love Policy'. Editor Sarah Wilson explains the philosophy...