antonio-m:William Etty, Male Nude, with Arms Up-Stretched, 1828 and 1830@yorkartgallery In his lifet
antonio-m:William Etty, Male Nude, with Arms Up-Stretched, 1828 and 1830@yorkartgallery In his lifetime, his concentration on painting the nude gave rise to much-heated debate about the moral value of his painting. After his death, many collections have struggled to make Etty’s work seem relevant in the twenty-first century and many of his works are in storage rather than on the gallery walls.To give a sense of the prominence of the nude within Etty’s output, all but one of the 15 paintings exhibited at the Royal Academy between 1820 and 1829 included nude figures. This preponderance did not go unnoticed in the contemporary press and Etty’s ‘fleshiness’ was much commented on. It was his depictions of the female nude, especially when displayed in prominent venues such as London’s Royal Academy of Arts, that caused the most excitement and consternation.Texte source : artuk.org -- source link