Qualities expressed through the nude & artists whose work typifies these qualities:

Humanist: anatomically distorted, expressive, or subjective

Leonard Baskin, Francis Bacon, Jim Dine, George Grosz, Jean Dubuffet, Rob Krier, Gaston Lachaise, Nancy Grossman, Odd Nerdrum, Fernando Botero, Egon Schiele, Leon Golub, Kathë Kollwitz, Carlo Maria Mariani, Francesco Clemente, Madden Harkness, Francisco de Goya y Lucientes, Ida Applebroog, Lucian Freud, Paul Cézanne, Alice Neel, George Tooker, Otto Dix, Thomas Hart Benton, Georges Rouault, Fernand Léger, Pablo Picasso, Robert Colescott, Salvador Dali

Formalist: anatomically proportionate, or objective

Classical Greek and Roman art, J-A. D. Ingres, Michelangelo, Peter Paul Rubens, Leonardo de Vinci, Pierre-Paul Prud’hon, Raphael, Théodore Géricault, William Beckman, Michael Leonard, James Valerio, Kent Bellows, John Sloan, Balthus, Reginald Marsh, Paul Cadmus, Titian, Correggio, Caravagio, Carpeaux, Andrew Wyeth, Jeff Koons, Robert Longo, David Hockney, David Salle, Robert Graham, Komar and Melamid, Claudio Bravo, John de Andrea, Sir Stanley Spencer, Philip Pearlstein, Sidney Goodman

Opposition or contrapposto

Kouros, Classical Greek and Roman, J-A. D. Ingres

Conceptual or subjective

Jonathan Borofsky, Yves Klein, Bob Grober, Kiki Smith

Layered images

Susan Rothenberg, Gael Stack, Sandro Chia, William Wiley

Sequential space

Egyptian, Mayan, Nancy Spero, Ida Applebroog, comic strips

Organic (bio-morphic forms)

Edvard Munch, Henry Moore, Amedeo Modigliani, Magdalena Abakanowicz, Louise Bourgeois, Kiki Smith

Angular

Egon Schiele, Leon Golub, Mario Dubsky

Geometric

Fernand Léger, Pablo Picasso, Robert Colescott

“Isms” (Art Movements) & Artists whose work incorporates the nude:

Italian Early and High Renaissance, and Mannerism

Sasetta c. 1392-1450, Donatello 1386-1466, Masaccio c. 1401-28, Pollaiuolo c. 1431-98, Mantegna 1431-1506, Botticelli c. 1444-1510, Leonardo 1452-1519, Michelangelo 1475-1564, Titian 1477-1576, Giorgione c. 1478-1510, Raphael 1483-1520, Correggio 1494-1534, Pontormo c. 1494-1557, Cellini 1500-71, Bronzino c.1503-72, Tintoretto 1518-94, Caravaggio 1571-1610, Guido Reni 1575-1642

Northern European Gothic and Mannerism

Hieronymus Bosch active c.1470-1516, Mabuse, (Gossaert) c. 1470-1533, Albrecht Dürer 1471-1528, Cranach 1472-1553, Baldung Grien 1480-1545, Jean Clouet c. 1475-1547

Spanish Mannerism

El Greco c. 1542-1614, Jusepe de Ribera 1588-1652, Francisco Zurbarán 1598-1664, Diego Rodriguez de Silva y Velázquez or Velásquez 1599-1660, Bartolomé Esteban Murillo 1617-82, Francisco de Goya y Lucientes 1746-1828

Baroque

Bernini Carracci 1560-1609, Peter Paul Rubens 1577-1640, Nicolas Poussin c. 1594-1665, Rembrandt 1606-69

Rococo

Giambattista Tiepolo 1696-1770, François Boucher 1703-70, Jean-Honoré Fragonard 1732-1806

Classicism and Neo-classicism

Jacques-Louis David 1748-1825, J-A. D. Ingres 1780-1867, Antonio Canova 1757-1822, Jean-Léon Gérôme 1824-1904, Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux 1827-75, Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema 1836-1912

Romanticism

Pierre-Paul Prud’hon 1758-1823, Théodore Géricault 1791-1824, Eugéne Delacroix 1798-1863, Puvis de Chavannes 1824-98, Adolphe-William Bouguerreau 1825-1905

Realism

Honoré Daumier 1808-79, Gustave Courbet 1819-1877, Auguste Rodin 1840-1917, John Singer Sargent 1856-1925, Aristide Maillol 1861-1944

Pre-Raphaelites

Dante Gabrielle Rosetti 1828-82, Sir John Everett Millais 1829-96, Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones 1853-98

Impressionism

Edgar Degas 1834-1917, Emile Bernard 1867-1947, Pierre-Auguste Renoir 1841-1919, Edouard Manet 1832-83, Mary Cassatt 1844-1926, Medardo Rosso 1858-1928, Joaquin Sorolla y Bastida 1863-1923

Post-Impressionism

Paul Cezanne 1839-1906, Henri Rousseau 1844-1910, Georges Seurat 1859-91, Henri Marie Raymondde de Toulouse-Lautrec 1864-1901, Suzanne Valadon 1867-1938, Henri Matisse 1869-1954, Vincent van Gogh 1853-1890

Nabis

Paul Sérusier 1863-1927, Edouard Vuillard 1868-1940, Pierre Bonnard 1867-1947, Felix Vallotton 1865-1925, Maurice Denis 1870-1943

Fauvism and Expressionism

Paul Gauguin 1848-1903, Edvard Munch 1863-1944, Emile Nolde 1867-1956, Käthe Kollwitz 1867-1945, Rouault 1871-1958, Dufy 1877-1953, Amedeo Modigliani 1884-1920, Max Beckmann 1884-1950, Oscar Kokoschka 1886-1980,Max Ernst 1891-1976, James Ensor 1860-1949, George Grosz 1893-1959, Egon Schiele 1890-1918, Gustav Klimt 1862-1918, Richard Gerstl 1883-1908, Chaim Soutine 1893-1943, Paula Modersohn-Becker 1876-1907, Otto Dix 1891-1969, Christian Shad 1894-1982

Cubism, Futurism and Abstraction

Fernand Léger 1881-1955, Pablo Picasso 1881-1973, Jean Arp 1887-1966, Louise Bourgeois b. 1911-

Symbolism, Dada and Surrealism

Gustave Moreau 1826-1898, Odilon Redon 1840-1916, Fernand Hodler 1853-1918, Franz von Stuck 1863-1928, Aubrey Beardsley 1872-1898, Marcel Duchamp 1887-1968, Man Ray 1890-1977, Paul Delvaux 1897-1994, René Magritte 1898-1967, Salvador Dalí 1904-1988

Modernism, Post-Modernism, Neo-Expressionist, and Social Satirist

Ida Applebroog, Milton Avery, Hans Bellmer, Balthus, Baselitz, Paul Cadmus, Francesco Clemente, Robert Colescott, Jim Dine, Otto Dix, Eric Fischl, Leon Golub, Georg Grosz, David Hockney, William Kentridge, Jeff Koons, Antony Micallef, Alice Neel, Larry Rivers, David Salle, Ben Shahn, Nancy Spero, Tom of Findland, Kehinde Wiley

Pop

Will Barnett, Roy Lichtenstein, Mel Ramos, Larry Rivers, James Rosenquist, Tom Wesselman

Performance and Body Art

Marina Abramovic’, Karen Findley, Keith Haring, Yves Klein [Happenings], Carolee Schneemann, René Stout

Realism, Hyper-realism and Contemporary Classicism

Edward Allington, John de Andrea, Wendy Artin, Steven Assael, Aleksander Balos, Jack Beal, William Beckman, Kent Bellows, Claudio Bravo, Paul Cadmus, Chuck Close, Jacob Collins, Mario Dubsky, Martha Meyer Erlebacher, Alan Feltus, Lucian Freud, Susan Hauptman , Sidney Goodman, Antony Gormley, Robert Graham, Robert Grober, Komar and Melamid, Michael Leonard, Alfred Leslie, Carlo Maria Mariano, Reginald Marsh, Stephen McKenna, John Nava, Odd Nerdrum, Philip Pearlstein, Evan Penny, Sylvia Sleigh, Sir Stanley Spencer, James Valerio, Andrew Wyeth, Jami Wyeth

Conceptualism and Deconstructionism

Magdalena Abakanowicz, Louise Bourgeois, Judy Chicago, Anselm Kiefer, Kiki Smith, Starn Twins, Alex Kanevsky, Lars Elling

Artists & Isms