Damn. Really, you need a holiday in Australia. Come and play with the painters of Oz! By the way, I may have mentioned him before, but I just picked up a book of nudes by Ashley Wood, and they’re just fantastic!
Believe me Gareth its on my list, LOL, first step would actually getting onto a plane, but this is a bridge Ive yet to cross too, btw, are there any drinking games we could play in Aus?LOL!!!!!hahahahahahahahahaha
Well, you could play ‘Keep up with Gareth’! Yeah!! We have a drawing club in my studio every fortnight, and whilst it’s usually a tame enough affair, once in a while we get smashed and paint a big mess together… once I woke up with oil paint up to my elbows…
Josh, these are extraordinary paintings and demonstrate how you’re pushing your new and challenging approach to the female figure even further. There is a strong affinity in these latest works with Walter Sickert’s Cambden Nudes, which I saw last year at the Courtauld Institute, and greatly admired (La Hollandaise, in particular, comes to mind when I look at them). In an essay written in 1910, “The naked and the nude”, Sickert argued that “the modern flood of representations of vacuous images dignified by the name of the Nude, represents an artistic and intellectual bankruptcy”. Well there can be no suggestion of “artistic or intellectual bankruptcy” where these remarkable studies are concerned. On the contrary, their mauling, vivid, atavistic nakeness – freed from the role of ornament and decoration and with an almost synaesthetic aura of “visual body heat” radiating from them – becomes all the more startling because it seems so unflinchingly real!”
Josh .. they are developing really well .. this one compared to n6 – is much more subtle for me – meaning more developed ... I wish I could write like Nicholas above to impress you ..lol .. joking :) .... yes Nicholas is right – these are not some silly old nudes lol ..
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banrai 28 days ago
oh, my!! everything finer than whoaaah! magnificent,sir!
Josh Bowe replied 27 days ago
Cheers Banrai, much appreciated
mhkantor 28 days ago
wow! another astounding masterpiece tour de force. exquisite.
Josh Bowe replied 27 days ago
Most kind of mkhantor, greatly appreciated
Alvaro Sánchez 28 days ago
great great!
Josh Bowe replied 27 days ago
Danke Alvaro, always good to hear from you mate
walraji 28 days ago
Excellent work.
Josh Bowe replied 27 days ago
Many thanks Emilio
Lynda Robinson 28 days ago
Great work Josh. Terrific angle.
Josh Bowe replied 27 days ago
Cheers Lynda, greatly appreciated
bernard lacoque 28 days ago
This is painting.
Josh Bowe replied 27 days ago
Much appreciated Bernard
mimi yoon 28 days ago
wow…. so amazing josh…. wow…. : )
Josh Bowe replied 27 days ago
Cheers Mimi, most kind of you
izzyizzy 28 days ago
great work josh
Josh Bowe replied 27 days ago
Thanks Izzy
Gareth Colliton 28 days ago
Damn. Really, you need a holiday in Australia. Come and play with the painters of Oz! By the way, I may have mentioned him before, but I just picked up a book of nudes by Ashley Wood, and they’re just fantastic!
Josh Bowe replied 27 days ago
Believe me Gareth its on my list, LOL, first step would actually getting onto a plane, but this is a bridge Ive yet to cross too, btw, are there any drinking games we could play in Aus?LOL!!!!!hahahahahahahahahaha
Gareth Colliton 27 days ago
Well, you could play ‘Keep up with Gareth’! Yeah!! We have a drawing club in my studio every fortnight, and whilst it’s usually a tame enough affair, once in a while we get smashed and paint a big mess together… once I woke up with oil paint up to my elbows…
Nicholas Johnston 26 days ago
Josh, these are extraordinary paintings and demonstrate how you’re pushing your new and challenging approach to the female figure even further. There is a strong affinity in these latest works with Walter Sickert’s Cambden Nudes, which I saw last year at the Courtauld Institute, and greatly admired (La Hollandaise, in particular, comes to mind when I look at them). In an essay written in 1910, “The naked and the nude”, Sickert argued that “the modern flood of representations of vacuous images dignified by the name of the Nude, represents an artistic and intellectual bankruptcy”. Well there can be no suggestion of “artistic or intellectual bankruptcy” where these remarkable studies are concerned. On the contrary, their mauling, vivid, atavistic nakeness – freed from the role of ornament and decoration and with an almost synaesthetic aura of “visual body heat” radiating from them – becomes all the more startling because it seems so unflinchingly real!”
annamora 25 days ago
Josh .. they are developing really well .. this one compared to n6 – is much more subtle for me – meaning more developed ... I wish I could write like Nicholas above to impress you ..lol .. joking :) .... yes Nicholas is right – these are not some silly old nudes lol ..