21st Century and Contemporary Nude Paintings

Breakfast with satire. 2009. Oil on canvas, 100x110 cm Dagnia Cherevichnik (1974) Born in 1974 in Riga. Professional education: 1986-1993 – J. Rozentals Riga Art Secondary School; 1...

Self-portrait 5 2009, canvas, acrylic, 140x98 cm Juris Utāns (1959-2022) was a Latvian painter. Worked in the field of critical realism, socially a...

My works speak of the human condition, the animality that inhabits us, and the creative impulse as a survival strategy. My series are a reflection of my own experience, of the life t...

This is a one of a kind original oil painting by San Diego artist, Julia San Roman. Its dimensions are 41" x 61" x 1.5". It is framed as pictured. A ce...

Untitled portrait, 2016

Seven deadly sins are the seven vices that spur other sins and further immoral behavior. First enumerated by Pope Gregory I (the Great) in the 6th century and elaborated in the 13th ...

My works speak of the human condition, the animality that inhabits us, and the creative impulse as a survival strategy. My series are a reflection of my own experience, of the life t...

Self-portrait 9 2009, canvas, acrylic, 140x98 cm Juris Utāns (1959-2022) was a Latvian painter. Worked in the field of critical realism, socially active and political art. Juris U...

This painting depicts a nude woman lying in a relaxed position. What really stands out in this work is the fishnet shawl that covers part of her bod...

Entre Claros is a piece inspired by María Zambrano’s book Claros del Bosque. It unfolds like an expandable landscape, drawn on ceramic mosaics, where female bodies walk through the t...

"Tuesday Morning," a striking piece by Kristy Chettle, marries the raw textures of reclaimed wood with the supple forms of the human body. The oil painting's elongated 57" x 19" canv...

Tattoo me 3 2002., Cardboard, mixed media, 153x117 cm Juris Utāns (1959-2022) was a Latvian painter. Worked in the field of critical realism, socially a...

Title: Garden of Earthly Delights Artist: TheDirtyFabulous Media: Oil on metal with polyurethane varnish Size: 60 x 40 inches / 153 x 102cm Year created: 2012-2014 Societies have long employed images that visualize their belief systems or attempt to encapsulate a narrative of our human destiny. This work follows in that tradition. The uppermost vignette is a silhouette from the nursery rhyme “Jack be nimble”, a children’s rhyme that refers to a 19th century game and a form of fortune telling. In Roman mythology Parcae (plural) were the personifications of fate. They are used in this painting as bookend figures on either side of a cosmic machine that answers questions of fate. Three vintage light bulbs labeled “yes”, “maybe” and “no” sit atop the clock – like machine and illuminate answers to humanity’s eternal questions. At the top of the composition are several re- configured tarot / divination cards belonging to an anonymous person circa 1930’s. The cards here are labeled; satisfaction dark woman, jealousy, dark man and betrayal. The grouping of these four cards refers to both positive and negative potentials concerning fate and offer clues to the viewer on a number of possible scenarios it could describe. The lower portion of the picture contains two silhouetted vignettes on either side of a central image of stars and planets against a dark void. The left image is of two children in a small wagon being pulled by a beetle. This is a reference to Egyptian mythology and the sun god Khepri. who personifies birth / rebirth. Khepri is portrayed as a beetle that pushes the sun across the sky. Here the young innocents...

Acrylic paint on canvas Hand-signed and dated lower left by the artist Unique work Glodi KASINDI MALUMBE was born in 1992 in Kinshasa, in Democratic Republic of Congo. He lives and ...

This is a one of a kind original oil and acrylic painting depicting Rodin's "The Thinker", by Southern California artist, Gina Palmerin. Its dimensions ...

Tattoo me 1 2002., Cardboard, mixed media, 153x117 cm Juris Utāns (1959-2022) was a Latvian painter. Worked in the field of critical realism, socially a...

This art piece is part of the series of unique sizable works called 'Home alone'. By using mixed media and expressive sketching techniques the artist Maris Abilevs manages to convey ...

By using mixed media and expressive sketching techniques the artist Maris Abilevs manages to convey the atmosphere of intimacy, eroticism and arousal

Shana Wilson (Canadian, born 1966) "Pink Hat" 2012 Oil Paint, Canvas, Stretcher Bars The artist signed the back of the painting. About the Artist: Shana Wilson, born in Edmonton in ...

Picture belonging to my human behaviour series Related to human rights Inspired by the dramatic artworks of Francisco Goya :: Painting :: Surrealism :: This piece comes with an off...

Seven deadly sins are the seven vices that spur other sins and further immoral behavior. First enumerated by Pope Gregory I (the Great) in the 6th century and elaborated in the 13th century by St. Thomas Aquinas, they are pride, greed, lust, envy, gluttony, wrath, and sloth. Each of these can be overcome with the seven corresponding virtues of humility, charity, chastity, gratitude, temperance, patience, and diligence. It is clear that as a subject matter, David Becker prefers the seven deadly sins to the virtues! David Becker Sloth oil on watercolor paper 31h x 22w in 78.74h x 55.88w cm DB0008 David Becker Exhibitions 2017 Coming Attractions, Gallery Victor Armendariz, Cicago, IL 2012 Eye Teeth Group Show, Paint Creek Center for the Arts, Rochester, MI 2011 Art Chicago 2011, Merchandise Mart, Chicago, IL 2010 Art Chicago 2010, Merchandise Mart, Chicago, IL 2009 David Becker Retrospective, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL Art Chicago 2009, Merchandise Mart, Chicago, IL The 184th Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Art, National Academy Museum, NYC Selections, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL 2008 Art Chicago 2008, Represented by Ann Nathan Gallery, Merchandise Mart, Chicago, IL 2007 Unruly Muse, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL SOFA NY (Sculptural Objects Functional Art), Ann Nathan Gallery, 7th Regiment Armory, NY, NY Art Chicago, Merchandise Mart, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL 2006 Palm Beach³, Ann Nathan Gallery, Palm Beach, FL 2005 SOFA NY (Sculptural Objects Functional Art), Ann Nathan Gallery, 7th Regiment Armory, NY, NY Art Chicago in the Park, Butler Field, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL Palm Beach³, Ann Nathan Gallery, Palm Beach, FL 2004 Contemporary Prints: National Academy Museum Collection, National Academy of Design, NYC Art Chicago 2004, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL Fantastic & Visionary Art, touring exhibit: Orange, Manning, Riddoch, & Ballart Gallery, Australia Return of the Men, Peltz Gallery, Milwaukee, WI 2003 Art Chicago 2003, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL Fantastic & Visionary Art, touring exhibit: Orange Regional Gallery, New South Wales, Australia National Academy of Design 178th Annual Exhibition, NY, NY 2002 Art Chicago 2002, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL Art of the 20th Century, Ann Nathan Gallery, Park Ave. Armory, NY, NY Outsider Art Fair, The Puck Building @ Houston & Lafayette Sts., NYC Self and Other Portraits, Wisconsin Artists, Charles Allis Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI Return of the Men, Peltz Gallery, Milwaukee, WI 2001  Beyond the 50's, May 4 - July 1, Exhibit A, A Gallery of Art & Design, Birmingham, Michigan Outsider Art Fair, January 26-28, The Puck Building @ Houston & Lafayette Sts., NYC "FANTASTIC ART", April/May, Orange Regional Gallery, Orange NSW, Australia. David Becker: Etchings and Engravings, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, solo exhibition of prints, February. 2000  Four person exhibition, Columbus State University, Columbus, Georgia, Oct. 31 - Nov. 27, 2000. 1999 National Academy 174th Annual Exhibition, NY University of Wisconsin-Madison Faculty, Elvehjem Museum of Art, Madison, WI Treasures Revealed: 19th and 20th Century American Works on Paper, National Academy, NY 1995 Bharat Bhavan International Biennial of Prints, Bhopal, India Contemporary Prints, Selections from John Szoke Gallery, NYC, Drew University, Madison, NJ Collection Update, 1994, National Academy of Design Museum, NY 1994 David Becker and Robert Sholties, Peconic Gallery, Suffolk Community College, Riverhead, NY In Black and White: Works by Four Printmakers, Atrium Gallery, University of Connecticut, Storrs Aesthetics of Athletics: Sports, Games, and Exercise, Charles A. Wustum Musem, Racine, WI GMI IX Award Winners, Art Center Gallery, Central Missouri State University, Warrensburg 1993 Take Home a Nude benefit auction, NY Academy of Art Graduate School Of Figurative Art, NY 1993 American Prints: Last Half 20th Century, Jane Haslem Gallery, Washingtion, DC Outstanding American Prints, Anderson Arts Center, Kenosha,WI National Academy of Design 168th Annual Exhibition, NY David Becker: Etchings, Davidson Galleries, Seattle, WA Portraits, Davidson Galleries, Seattle, WA 1992 The Print Fair, 7th Regiment Armory, NY 1991 166th Annual Exhibition, National Academy of Design, NY Alma College Collection, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan Modes of Expression, Potsdam College, SUNY, Potsdam, NY 1990 With Nothing On, Prints and Drawings of the Nude, New Orleans Museum of Art, LA Prints by Printmakers, Staller Art Center, SUNY-Stonybrook, NY Publications/Reviews 2007 November 60 Years of North American Prints: 1947-2007, Boston U. Art Gallery, Boston, MA 2003 July 11 Isthmus, Madison, “Welcome to My Nightmare,” by Robert Cozzolino. 2001 March 14 The Wall Street Journal, "Time Off: A Week of Diversions." Review of Progressive Printmakers (LVM) exhibition. 2001 February Isthmus, Madison, "America's Printland," by Jennifer Smith. 2001 February Capital Times, "The Crowned Prints," by Kevin Lynch. 1999 July Progressive Printmakers: Wisconsin Artists & the Print Renaissance. 1995 – 1999 Who’s Who in America. 1993 Summer The Journal of the Print World, review. March 14 The New York Times, review. March 12 The Daily Oklahoman, review. 1990 Dec. 13 The Capital Times, review. April 28 The Washingtion Post, review. March 25 The New York Times, review. Summer The Journal of the Print World, review. Selected Collections - additional collections available on requestArkansas Arts Center Foundation, Little Rock, AR Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL Brooklyn Museum, NYC Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit, MI Elvehjem Museum of Art, U of Wisconson-Madison Honolulu Academy of Arts, Honolulu, HI Library of Congress, Washington, DC Metropolitan Museum, Miami, FL Museo de Arte Moderno, Cali, Columbia National Academy, NY, NY National Museum of American Art, Washington, DC New York Public Library, NY Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, MA United States Information Agency, Prague, Czech. Alberta College of Art, Alberta, Canada Albion College, Albion, MI Alma College, Alma, MI Art Center, South Bend, IN AT&T Corporate HQ, Plainfield, NJ Boston Printmakers, Boston, MA Bradley University, Peoria, IL Columbia Green Community College, Hudson, NY Columbus State University, Columbus, GA Davidson College, Davidson, NC Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA Georgia State University – Atlanta Hope College, Holland, MI Hunterdon Art Center, Clinton, NJ Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS Madison Art Center, Madison, WI Marui Imai Inc., Sapporo, Japan Milwaukee Art Center, Milwaukee, WI Minot Art Association, Minot, ND North Carolina Print/Drawing Society, Charlotte, NC North Texas State University – Denton Ohio University – Athens Oklahoma Art Center, Oklahoma City, OK Oklahoma State University, OK Quad Graphics, Milwaukee, WI Silvermine Guild of Arts, New Canaan, CT Springfield College, Springfield, MA St. Lawrence University, Canton, NY State University of New York – Fredonia State University of New York – Potsdam Trenton State College, Trenton, NJ University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ University of Colorado-Boulder University of Dallas, TX University of Louisville, Louisville, KN University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada University of North Dakota – Grand Forks University of South Dakota – Vermillion University of Tennesse – Knoxville West Chester State College, West Chester, PA Western Kentucky University – Bowling Green Private Collections Carla Leighton, New York, NY Marc Hauser, Chicago, IL Michael John Hofer, Chicago, IL Drs. Mark & Helene Connolly, River Forest, IL Jamie Kalikow, New York, NY Dianne & Jim Blanco, Chicago, IL Denise Roberge, Palm Desert, CA Tish & Philip Messinger, Creskill, NJ Brian Wesphal & Michael McVicker, Chicago, IL Ralph Privoznik, Lafayette, IN Candice Groot, Evanston, IL Shomaker/Ruud Collection, Chicago, IL Braden Berkey and Robert Bartlett, Chicago, IL Bill and Karyn Silverstein, Highland Park, IL Steve Weitz, Lovettsville, VA Mary Allice Wimmer, Madison, WI Ann & Robert Avery...

Tattoo me 4 2002., Cardboard, mixed media, 153x117 cm Juris Utāns (1959-2022) was a Latvian painter. Worked in the field of critical realism, socia...

Europa. 2010. Oil on canvas, 120x120 cm Dagnia Cherevichnik (1974) Born in 1974 in Riga. Professional education: 1986-1993 – J. Rozentals Riga Art Secondary School; 1995 - 2001- LMA...

Acrylic painting on canvas Hand-signed lower left Unique work THE THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS OF MOHAMMAD ARIYAEI " Gentleness and oriental wisdom follow the supercharged bubbling to w...

Summer. 2021. Oil on canvas, 70x70 cm Colorful bright artwork with two girls Nugzar Avtandilovich Kahiani was born in Poti, Georgia in 1952. He studied at the Art College named after Nikoladze. Then he went to serve in the Soviet Army from1970 to 1972. After completing his military service he entered the Stieglitz St. Petersburg State Academy of Art and Industry at the faculty of artistic metal, from which he graduated in 1986. During his studies, he has been actively engaged in painting. His favorite artists are Gauguin, El Greco, Botticelli, Turner and Picasso. Works of artistic stone He worked also with stone, cornelian and onyx. But his soul gravitated to bright and blustery color, and so he has became engaged in painting. At first his paintings were quiet, with muted tonal gamma. The color image was built on the play of hues and halftones. Such a careful elaboration of color educates the taste, sharpness and delicacy of vision. Gradually, the painter became more experienced, and his paintings acquired assurance and power of maturity, blooming in colorful brilliancy. Nugzar's color preferences The color of Nugzar’s paintings is deep and multi-layered. It is woven of infinite number of hues and filled with light. At first sight it may be difficult to recognize the shapes in the play of flickering color dabs. The figures appear gradually, they draw the first breath just before our eyes, crystallizing from the color heap. The painter is attracted by major tonality and motives that years ago could be called “the gallant feasts” - repasts, assiduities, music parties, and airings. After somewhat daemonic, infernal imagery of early paintings, it has appeared the theme of “Le joie de vivre,” the joy of life. Source of inspiration Born in the ancient Kolkhida, he keeps the blissful pagan feel of entirety and completeness of being. It is embodied almost literally in his favorite personage auroral gorgeous-bodied beauty of a girl. He grants these forms even to Olympian inhabitants - Aphrodite, Athene, Arthemide, let alone the Bacchants. I remember unwittingly that Niko Pirosmani similarly painted on his impoverished buckrams the luxurious prince repasts and languid, elephantine beauties. Working style But his style is not bounded by grotesque parody, as well as the irony is not the only aspect of his world outlook. In his landscapes we can catch the ecstatic admiration with Nature. In contradistinction to his favorite impressionists, he never paints from nature and never bears in mind the particular place. It is just a blooming Earth, studied very closely, so that the trees are cut by the edges of the painting, and at the same time it is a bird’s eye view revealing infinite, boundless spaces. Nougzar says that the landscape for him is first of all a color ensemble. He can just leaf through the illustrated journal, nourishing his eye with color in various combinations, and so get the impulse to create a ‘physical’ landscape image. Probably, his landscapes are no less fantastical than his figure compositions, but such is his talent, his mission - to make the world more beautiful and gentle than it is in reality. Exhibitions Nugzar Kakhiani...

By using mixed media and expressive sketching techniques the artist Maris Abilevs manages to convey the atmosphere of intimacy, eroticism and arousal

By using mixed media and expressive sketching techniques the artist Maris Abilevs manages to convey the atmosphere of intimacy, eroticism and arousal

Genesis Oil Painting on Panel Beginning Bible Adam Eve In Stock Tino Luciano (1953, Sardinië) Like most artists, Luciano started painting at an early age. His paintings can be consi...

Ihor Volkov-Tkachynskyi captures a fleeting, almost dreamlike presence in “Dirty Diana,” a work that merges figurative and abstract elements in a delicate interplay of movement and c...

This art piece is part of the series of unique sizable works called 'Home alone'. By using mixed media and expressive sketching techniques the artist Maris Abilevs manages to convey ...

I miss you. 2021. Paper, mixed media, 61x43 cm Act

By using mixed media and expressive sketching techniques the artist Maris Abilevs manages to convey the atmosphere of intimacy, eroticism and arousal

What will you say? 2021. Paper, mixed media, 97x67 cm Act on yellow background

This is a version of the Renaissance motif known as "Death and the Maiden". I think the motif generally was meant to condemn Voluptus (born of the...

ANNE-VALÉRIE DUPOND (b. 1976, France) Anne-Valérie Dupond, born in 1976, studied at Marc Bloch University in Strasbourg, and obtained her Master’s degree in Fine Arts in 2000. Sinc...

Oil on Canvas

By using mixed media and expressive sketching techniques the artist Maris Abilevs manages to convey the atmosphere of intimacy, eroticism and arousal

Angels. Oil on wood 60X80 cm The artist Vadim Kovalev was born in 1968 in the capital of Latvia, Riga, where he is also presently living and creating his works. When Vadim was five...

By using mixed media and expressive sketching techniques the artist Maris Abilevs manages to convey the atmosphere of intimacy, eroticism and arousal

By using mixed media and expressive sketching techniques the artist Maris Abilevs manages to convey the atmosphere of intimacy, eroticism and arousal

'Ballet Dancers', Mixed media , oil and paper on canvas. The painting comes with a certificate of authenticity and a letter of appraisal. Represented by American Art Gallery Carmel...

Dawn. 2021. Paper, mixed media, 97x67 cm Act with the mirror

Moment. 2021. Paper, mixed media, 61x43 cm

Dance. 2021. Mixed media on cardboard, 70x100 cm

Original contemporary figurative acrylics painting on canvas, painted edges and ready to hang. Part of a new series of 3 nude figures, view of front, profile and back, with orange predominant colour. Colourful and textured semi-abstract painting using orange, blue and white applied in several layers with the palette knife. Size 42 cm x 60 cm x 1.5 cm ( 16.5" x 23.5" x 0.5"). Quality art materials used...

Betsy Podlach (American, born 1964) "Young Woman with Birds" 2021 Oil Paint, Canvas, Stretcher Bars The artist signed the back of the painting. About the Artist: Betsy Podlach is a ...

The title of this painting, together with the subject depicted, underlines the message of Pep Anton Xaus's artworks. Pay especial attention to the donke...

***This artwork is currently on exhibit at the Instituto Cervantes, Chicago until September 2025. If purchased this artwork will be available to ship after September 1, 2025. Contact...

Original contemporary figurative acrylics painting on canvas, painted edges and ready to hang. Part of a new series of 3 nude figures, view of front, profile and back, with orange predominant colour. Colourful and textured semi-abstract painting using orange, blue and white applied in several layers with the palette knife. Size 42 cm x 60 cm x 1.5 cm ( 16.5" x 23.5" x 0.5"). Quality art materials used...

Yellow Back - a beautiful study using Angela's idiosyncratic use of colour to wonderful effect. Angela was born in 1946 and studied art at Kingston Art College, London. Her early...

Angela was born in 1946 and studied art at Kingston Art College, London. Her early career was predominantly spent designing sets and costumes for rock bands. This connection with the...

This painting is a collaboration with artist Jack Balas. Jack is Wes Hempel's partner. A walk through any major museum will reveal paintings that depict o...

It is a work that uses an intense color palette to explore the connection between nature and humanity. The central tree is captured, imposing and majestic. Green leaves suggest life ...

[ New Orleans, LA :: b.1959, Augsburg, Germany ] In 1959, Ruth Owens was born to a young German woman and a Black serviceman from Georgia. The nomadic military lifestyle of her chi...

This painting, like each of the paintings in the Purple Dawn series, is based on an earlier work that was lost or destroyed in the course of time. Feeling that I wanted to finish wha...

Gouache and acrylic on yupo. Artwork is 12 x 9 in., framed it is 15 x 12 in.

Acrylic on canvas