The artists and their models

• The artists and their models

The beauty of the female body, inspiring artists to create masterpieces.

"Art can not exist without naked beauty", - said the poet William Blake, and he was absolutely right. Creating sculptures, paintings or photos can not be without inspiration, a source of which is for artists for centuries a woman's body, flexible and elegant.

History knows of the great masters, unjustly forgetting about the existence of those who spend hours standing in the middle of the room, until they were taken with a brush on canvas or shaped into a piece of clay.

Presents photographs that are not seen at the exhibition and in the press. These pictures imprinted that always remains behind the scenes: the process of creating the future of art. It involves not only an artist, but also his muse, which sometimes have to make difficult and uncomfortable postures for the sake of creative concept was a success.

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The group of art school students Farnsworth writes painting from life, 1946.

The model on the background of cacti and arthritis sufferers artist, 1948.

Yves Klein in the studio at work, 1959

Salvador Dali thanks nudes named Raquel Welsh, 1965

Henri Matisse with the model year 1939.

Drawing class at the Australian School of Art Julian Ashton, 1920

The sculptor Chaim Gross in the studio, 1942.

Jean Negulesco wrote a portrait Model in the studio in Hollywood.

Gregory Mayofis, "Artist and Model", 2012

The American artist Robert Rauschenberg and his naturschitsa, 1951

The American artist Thomas Hart Benton worked on the painting "Persephone" (also known as the "Rape of Persephone") at his studio in Kansas City, Missouri, in 1939. The Model - one of his students, a student at the Art Institute of Kansas City.

The German surrealist Fabius von Gugel in Rome.

David Fredental draws a sketch, 1948.

The sculptor Chaim Gross sketches, 1942.

Students from the University of Iowa in the session, in 1961.

art school students Skouhigena, Maine, sketching from nature in 1948.

The Model Doris Fisher on a smoke break during training at the Art School in Bow Oaks, Michigan, 1946.

art school students Skouhigena, Maine, sketching from nature in 1948.

The artists write from life, California, in 1959.

Moses Soyer works in a studio in Greenwich Village, New York, 1960

A student of the art school in Mexico draws from nature, in 2013