#studio nude

Critics said André Derain had gone tame. Returned to tradition, to Corot, to the old masters. Then he painted "The Handsome Model" - and hid the wildness where almost nobody looks. Not in the pose, which is classical. Not in the dark background, pushed nearly to black. The wildness is in the shadow tones on her skin. Look at her left side, under the raised arm, along the ribs and flank. Derain painted those shadows in blue-grey - cool, mineral tones, the kind you'd see on weathered bronze, not a living body. He's treating skin the way Cézanne treated an apple: as planes of contrasting temperature rather than local color darkened with black. That single color decision changes the entire painting. Without it, this is a competent studio nude - dark ground, familiar S-curve from raised hand to knee. With it, the body becomes sculptural, almost metallic, as if carved from something harder than flesh. The cool shadow makes her monumental. It makes the warm light on her belly feel earned rather than given. Derain never fully abandoned Fauvism. He just learned to hide it in the places most people don't look. Quelle: meisterdrucke.com

Private studio shoot

Unique gelatin silver prints 40 x 50 cm

Model: @racheldashae

The lovely Cinna Ray...