Morcos’ style of beauty, elegance, and romance, is seductively intertwined with his masterful use of color, light, and drama.
Nude | Contemporary art
The depiction of nudity in art has a long history, dating back to ancient times where it often symbolized fertility and was associated with religious beliefs. Ancient Greece particularly embraced the nude as a symbol of ideal beauty. Nudity is not meaningless nor does it always mean the same thing. The nude figure in art has generally reflected, with few exceptions, social standards of aesthetics as well as morality of the certain time period. While nudity in art can be associated with eroticism, it has also reflected social and moral standards of the time. Erotic art has existed in various forms across civilizations, with some cultures incorporating it into spiritual beliefs and others reflecting cultural practices. See also subcategory: sensual art and erotic art.
Ennio Montariello born May 1960 in Naples (Italy). In 1978 he graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Naples.His works are the pleasant result of a mixture between hyperrealism and surrealism aimed mainly at the subject of the nude and the female portrait.
Marina Marina Igorevna was born in 1970 in a small city called Tambov, in rural Russia. She started playing the piano at a very early age and was accepted in a special school for musically gifted children at the age of seven. After graduating from both musical and comprehensive school at 17, Marina went to work in order to earn a little money to continue her musical and general education in a college.
Tina Spratt is best known for her paintings of the female figure, either in oils or pastel, her subjects are often lost in introspection, or surrounded by the fascinating textures of a myriad of fabrics.
Alexandre Monntoya was born on January 16, 1974 in Roldanillo (Valle), Colombia. Since his inception, he was attracted to the human figure, and although he have painted many still lifes using them as a way of learning, he have always felt a special connection with the instants and he wanted to freeze them to make them eternal.
Born in Hampshire (England), Trudy Good spent her younger years exploring and romanticising the beauty of figurative painters work such as Rembrandt, Richter, Sargent, Degas, Giacometti and Bacon.
Jeong Hae-Kwang was born in Seoul, Korea, in 1963. In 1989 he graduated from the Department of Painting at the Faculty of Fine Arts at Chung-Ang University (Korea).
Antonio Sgarbossa was born in 1945 in Fontaniva. His work experience began at the age of 12 when a ceramics workshop opened near his house. There, young painters painted views of tourist destinations on the ceramic plates, especially Venice, the most famous and most visited city in the Veneto.
Born in Amiens in 1968, Nathalie Picoulet began a career in portrait paintings in 1993. Nathalie Picoulet studied at The University of Plastic Arts and followed higher education of drawing at L Ecole Superieur of design in Amiens. “My interest in the nude, draped and dimly lit, was born out of my special interest in Italian painting,” says French artist Nathalie Picoulet of her pastel painting interests. “Especially Leonardo da Vinci.