1. How do we know WHO is beautiful?

2. Was man created in God’s image or the other way around?

3. Otherworldly Figures Gods and Goddesses

4. Venus of Willendorf, 30,000 – 25,000 BCE

5. Ishtar – Syrian Goddess of Love

6. Ancient Greek, Venus de Milo,

7. Ancient Greek, Posedin

8. Ancient Greek - Eros

9. Tlazoltetol – Aztec Goddess of Love

10. Xochipilli – Aztec God of Love

11. What can we infer about what was important to the people who made these two sculptures?

12. Titian, Venus de Urbino,

13. William Bouguereau, A Young Girl Defending Herself Against Eros, 1880

14. Jean Ingres, Jupiter and Thetis, 1811

15. Freya – Norse Goddess

16. Radha and Krishna

17. Indian Goddess

18. M. F. Hussain, Bharatmata

19. How can portrayal of the human form express human emotion?

20. The East

21. Japan

22. Japanese painting

23. Shin Hanga - Japanese print – Artist Unknown, early 20 th century

24. Goyo Hatschiguchi, Woman after Bath, 1920

25. Artist Unknown, Japanese Print, 1921

26. China

27. Ming Dynasty – Four Beauties

28. Yue Minjun

29. Yue Minjun, Sun, 2000

30. India

31. India – Couple from Temple at Karle

32. M. F. Hussain, Bharatmata, 2006

33. Dhruva Mistry, Walking Man, 1981

34. Dhruva Mistry, Reclining Figure, 1983

35. Navjot Altaf, Untitled Blue Woman, 2000

36. Pre-Columbian American

37. Pre-Columbian figure from Veracruz, Mexico,

38. Pre-Columbian Sculpture from South America

39. Africa

40. Burkino-Faso

41. Gabon

42. Zaire/Congo

43. Nigerian

44. The West

45. King Mycerinus, Ancient Egypt, 2520 BCE

46. Greek Kourous

48. Roman copy of a Greek Discus Thrower

49. The Doom, St. Peter’s Church, Suffolk

50. Lochner, scenes from Hell, 1435

51. Verrechio, David, 1447Donatello, David, 1440Michelangelo, David, 1504

52. Bottecelli, The Birth of Venus, 1482

53. Titian, Venus de Urbino, 1538

54. Peter Paul Rubens, Venus at the Mirror, 1615

55. Peter Paul Rubens, The Three Graces, 1638

56. William Blake, Europe Supported By Africa and America, 1796

57. Jean Ingres, Jupiter and Thetis, 1811

58. Eugene Delacroix, Louis D’Orleans Showing his Mistress, 1826

59. Eugene Delacroix, The Death of Sardanapalus,1828

60. Adolfe Bougereau, Birth of Venus, 1879

61. Gustave Courbet, The Painter’s Studio, 1855

62. Edward Manet, Luncheon on the Grass, 1863

63. Eduard Manet, Olympia, 1863

64. Auguste Rodin, The Age of Bronze, 1877

65. Auguste Rodin, The Kiss,

66. Auguste Renior, Bather

67. Auguste Renior, Seated Bather, 1885

68. Paul Cezanne, Bathers, 1881

69. Paul Cezanne, Grandes Baigneuses, 1905

70. Henri Matisse, Blue Nude, 1907

71. Henri Matisse, Blue Nude, 1952

72. Pablo Picaaso, Two Youths, 1906

73. Pablo Picasso, Les Madmoiselles d’Avignon 1908

74. Pablo Picasso, Nude, 1909

75. Marcel Duchamp,Nude Descending a Staircase,

76. Rene Magritte,

77. Willem DeKooning, Seated Woman, 1950

78. Willem DeKooning, Woman I, 1950

79. Yves Klein, Blue Venus,

80. Nikki de St. Phalle, Black Venus,

81. Lucien Freud, Benefits Supervisor Sleeping

82. Lucien Freud,Naked Girl Asleep,

83. Alice Neel, Pregnant Woman, 1971

84. Alice Neel, Jophn Perricault, 1972

85. Alice Neel, Self Portrait, 1980

86. Roy Lichtenstein, Nude with Abstract Painting, 1994

87. Mel Ramos, Velveeta, 1965

88. Mel Ramos, Olympia, 1972

89. Jenny Saville,, Strategy (South Face, Front Face, North Face), 1996

90. Jenny Saville,

91. Cindy Sherman

92. Eric Fischl, The Old Man’s Boat and the Old Man’s Dog, 1981

93. Eric Fischl, Master Bedroom, 1983

94. Figure drawing is arguably the most difficult subject an artist commonly encounters, and entire classes are dedicated to the subject. - wikipedia

95. The Guerilla Girls, 1989

96. Adolfe Bougereau, Birth of Venus, 1879 Excerpt from “The Birth of Venus II,” by Seamus Ryan Are these two images art or pornography?

97. How do these images comment on the portrayal of women in art?

98. 1972 200? 15381863