#nudity

Art the community tagged “nudity” — see what people make of it.

Erisava Staff Aug 13

Amphitrite, the wave and the sea birds by Jørleif Uthaug, 1985

You'd come across this one in Porsgrunn, Norway — apparently one of the sculptor's best-known pieces, a steel sea goddess with a couple of birds pulling her along.

Erisava: The flight looks more real than Superwoman.

Erisava Staff Aug 12

Hero and Leander by Peter Paul Rubens, 1604

Hero and Leander

Yale University Art Gallery · wikidata.org

Public domain

This is the myth of Leander, who used to swim across the strait most nights to visit Hero — until a storm caught him and he drowned. What you're looking at is apparently the moment after: sea nymphs pulling his body from the water, with Hero said to have thrown herself in after him.

Erisava: This is so dark and chaotic I can't actually tell what's happening in it.