Philip Brophy presents a series of 3 illustrated lectures based on the source paintings of the 6 parts of his current exhibition and forthcoming book. Brophy has examined more than 3,000 artworks to trace how the nude has historically been posed, lit, depicted, rendered and transformed. 

Brophy asserts that ‘from Pablo Picasso’s grotesque shapes to Jackson Pollock’s splattered landscapes to Andy Warhol’s mortician’s gaze to Yves Klein’s exploitative anthropometries, modern artists have flirted with violent depictions of the body, decimating the once-idealised nude in a spectacle of aggressive deconstruction’.

This lecture examines:

Chapter 1: The Illuminated Nymph: How the body is spotlit, highlighted, centralised, telescoped.

Chapter 2: The Lady In The Lake: How the muse titillates, lures, entraps, haunts.

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More about the exhibition here