Tag: nude
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Photo Series Shows What The “Ideal Female Body” Used To Look Like (NSFW)
We are all too aware that images of idealized beauty permeate most of the media we consume. What we may not realize is that it has actually happened for hundreds of years, albeit in different forms, shifting aesthetics and beauty standards. Titian’s reclining Venus, for example, is shaped differently from the fashion models of today’s…
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Artist Photographs 100 Naked Women To Show The Power Of A Strong Nude Photo (NSFW)
Warning: as the title of this post suggests, this photo series contains a lot of nudity. London artist Nadia Lee Cohen who knows the power of a good nude. “The female form has always fascinated me and featured predominantly in my work; therefore, it was important for me to embark upon a project that allowed me to explore…
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Women’s Bodies Captured In Stunning B&W ‘Bodyscapes’
‘Bodyscapes’ is the latest series by photographs Anton Belovodchenko. The featured women show surprisingly flexibility, contorting their bodies in various ways. Black and white photography strips away color, leaving only gray skin and dark shadows, accentuating every bone, muscle and wrinkle. It’s a sculpture in flesh. Traditionally, bodyscapes is a photography genre of taking pictures of…
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#ImNoAngel Lingerie Campaign Illustrates That Every Kind of Body is the Perfect Body
Move over Victoria’s Secret. Lane Bryant just won the prize for sexiest campaign of 2015. The plus-size brand launched its #ImNoAngel advertisements on Monday, featuring models Ashley Graham, Marquita Pring, Candice Huffine and more. The women, styled in Lane Bryant’s exclusive bra collection Cacique, define “sexy” in numerous ways during the ad. They’re also using social media to further challenge conventional beauty standards. Forget Victoria’s…
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A Vagina From the 19th Century Sparks French Lawsuit Against Facebook
A 149-year-old vagina is at the center of a legal dispute involving France, Facebook, and online censorship. If you’ve been an avid follower of artFido’s arty posts, you’ll recall that we posted an article mid last year about Luxembourgian artist Deborah de Roberti who transformed Gustave Courbet’s famous painting, l’Origine du Monde, into performance, by revealing her own…
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A Sickly-Sweet Photoshoot Featuring Nude Models Covered in Honey
In his sticky new photo series, LA photographer Blake Little covers his subject in honey and then captures the results. Although it doesn’t look like the most comfortable photoshoot ever, the pictures produced from the series are rather impressive, with the gooey, dribbling honey cascading to the floor and elongating the subjects body parts. You…
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Performance Artist Walks Naked Through Gallery Holding a Baby For Art?
There’s a clear theme running through the works of performance artist Milo Moiré… nakedness. We’ve previously seen her sans clothes in her controversial work “Plop Egg” where she inserted eggs into her vagina to create a plop artwork (see HERE), and we followed her as she walked to Art Basel with the names of her outfit…
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SEXandTAKEOUT: a Voyeuristic Photo Series by Sarah Bahbah
As the saying goes, “Pizza is a lot like sex. When it’s good, it’s really good. When it’s bad, it’s still pretty good.” Australian photographer and creative Sarah Bahbah has taken this notion to a whole new level with here series #SEXandTAKEOUT. According to Sarah, “Sex and Takeout was inspired while I was travelling the States with…
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Amazing Body Painting Turns Humans into Animals
While at first glance you think you’re seeing ordinary paintings of animals on canvas, look a little closer and you’ll notice that the canvases are actually naked human beings. Shannon Holt is a body painter based in Florida who has the incredible ability to transform the human body into a canvas for art. In the Florida…
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Usher Charges His Phone in a Vagina at Art Basel. Probably Not Art (VERY NSFW)
Warning: This post contains images of a very nude human iPhone charger. It’s probably not art, and it’s definitely not suitable for work. Heck, it’s only just Safe For Home… Even if you know very little about art you can enjoy the most prominent headlines coming out of the art world’s foremost bacchanal, Art Basel Miami…