Calling all ye arty types...

I'm looking for information on human form.

Not very specific I know.
Just some general recommendations on galleries, exhibitions, artists etc....

Any medium will do.

Any fav's?

 

Tasteful nudes?

 

Robert Maplethorpe

 

If you're into the gay thing.

 

That would be spelt Mapplethorpe

 

Grays Anatomy.

Seriously good pics, almost as popular with artists as it is with med students.

 

Not sure whether you're talking specifically nudes or the human form in a wider context but here are a few interesting start points...

Some don't lend themselves to photo's/images very well. Especially Auerbach

Leonardo Da Vinci
Frank Auerbach
Willem De Kooning
Rodin
Lucien Freud
Otto Dix
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Stanely Spencer

 

Mo, I like the Victoria & Albert in London.

More specifically the sculpture for human form.

It's also the most brilliantly diversified gallery I've ever been to. I love it there.

Next time you're in London...

 

Mapplethorpe good but I think Helmut Newton just as good although adding a whisp of clothing could be considered by some to be turning the subjects in to fetish objects.

Helmut Newton [German/Australian Photographer, 1920-2004]