Posted by dorayme on 07/11/07 08:49

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<Xns996AED21E10Fnanopandaneredbojias@198.186.190.161>,
Neredbojias <neredbojias@gmail.com> wrote:

> Well bust mah britches and call me cheeky, on Wed, 11 Jul 2007 07:26:33
> GMT Chris F.A. Johnson scribed:
>
> >> Here's my fav (-again, for humans.)
> >>
> >> http://tinyurl.com/3bf27k
> >
> > Much of Royo's work is compared to Renoir's, but that is closer to
> > Vargas!
>
> Yep, I agree. I never considered him particularly "Renoiresque" but
> perhaps the poses favored by the 2 artists are similar.

Lots of artists like drawing and painting the backs of women. The
last I watched happening was when Greg Kinnear drew Helen Hunt's
in As Good as It Gets.

There are some fine studies of backs in photography too. The
one's that come to mind, apart from my modest collection, is one
of Man Ray's

<http://www.getty.edu/art/gettyguide/artObjectDetails?artobj=61240
&handle=li>

And a few others by him with some abstract qualities, via
solarization.

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dorayme

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