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5. Modern (post-photography)
Henry Holiday's working drawing for "The Landing" from "The Hunting of the Snark" by Lewis Carroll (1876) was presumably intended for his eyes only... | ![]() | |
![]() | ...but the Bellman's penis is finely detailed. | |
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"Just the place for a Snark!" the Bellman cried, | ||
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| Picasso submitted this pencil drawing of a heavy-thighed man to enter the Barcelona School of Fine Arts in 1895 when he was14. | ![]() |
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A jovial minotaur and man in Picasso's 1933 "Bacchanale" share a post-coital drink. | |
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Museum of Modern Art, New York
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"Oedipus" (1933)
by Keith Vaughan (1912-1977)
Keith thought that the omens at his birth were auspicious: "Apart from being a healthy baby it was observed that my penis possessed a loose and easily retractable foreskin which was not considered necessary to circumcise according to the custom of my class. For this piece of good fortune I have had many occasions to be grateful."
- "Keith Vaughan: his life and work" (1990) |
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M. C. Escher's intiguing etchings routinely show any nude males as intact, such as this Buddha-like figure (in Mosaic II, 1957) ... | ||
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Paul Cadmus (1904-1999) finely details his model's penis |
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David Hockney's 1967 illustration to C P Cavafy's poems stresses line, rather than shading, giving a flat look to the model's penis, though the sulcus and acroposthion are indicated. | |
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Conversely Francisco Lòpez's 1973 nude torso is finely shaded, emphasising the penis' dorsal vein. | |
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While the character of Gollum in the film of The Lord of the Rings is almost entirely computer-generated and wears a tiny loincloth that doesn't seem to hide much, oversized models were used by Weta Workshops to help make him so lifelike, and a picture of one in Cinefex magazine shows the artists conceived him as intact, as is a maquette of the Cave Troll in the Lord of the Rings exhibition - as of course they should be (but it wouldn't be so certain if they were made in the US). Picture to come. |
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![]() Angela's Men is a gallery |
Paul Davis Jones of Phildelphia has painted a series |
This entire sequence - the previous five pages - has been turned into a slide show with music, off-site. |
Jonathan Yeo painted two portraits of entrepreneur Ivan Massow three months apart, during which Massow lost three stone (19 kg) and grew a beard.
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In his book "Uncut: the natural history of the foreskin", Sherwin Carlquist includes a sequence of Annie Liebowitz-like portraits of intact penises in natural settings.
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| ![]() | Photographer Dylan Ricci |
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