A site you will never forget...

[Fatesailor]

I know, it sounds like an exaggeration but I dare to speak so... (strictly not recommended for the people who feel offended by nudity):

http://central.dot.net.au/~frankl/NormanSite.html

[AndreasM]

Now that was terrible. Complete with midi tracks and all. :eek:

[egerie]

maybe this would've been better posted in the Lounge section.

[tyboogie]

who the hell gets offended by nudity? shit. Oh NO BREASTS ARRGGHHHHHHHHHHH

his watercolors are magical

[Fatesailor]

The main reason I said 'you will never forget' is the magic sense which comes out from these works. The sensuality they convey has a quality which is almost lost in our present day perception of eroticism. The women of this man have real flesh (they are not made of plastic), everything he draws and paints conveys an almost touchable sense of authenticity. He is gorgeously sensual and yet so tender and delicate, so blatantly fleshy and still so innocent, so orgiastic and, though, so fragile and cute.

Remember the sense we experienced (I am speaking to the male participants of the forum, the female ones can share, if they want, their own ideas on the subject:)) in our early adolescance years when we had a glimpse of the mature woman body. Remember the awe we experienced. This artist had the gift -as is evident from his works- of capturing this feel of awe and incarnate it in his art.

[Coma]

... I thought its lack of realism made his works suffer.
but thats my opinion.

[desertqueen]

I think Fatesailor hit the nail on the head, so to speak. You have to remember this artist was around at the beginning of the last century, and his work was both acclaimed and criticised for its erotic content. But his attitude was 'to hell with the wowsers' as he called them, people should be free to enjoy their own sensuality, not repressed as it was at the time. His work inspired great thinkers, poets, novelists as well as other artists. And still does. He never deterred from his ideology right up to his death in 1969 at the age of 91.
He adored the female body and uttered the immortal and so relevant at the moment words"Any country that doesn't love the beauty of women, is doomed". Norman Lindsay. I think a few places on this earth could learn from that one.
Some of his women are quite comical but the majority are delicious amazonian types. The main thing to note though is, no matter what situation his women find themselves in they are always the victorious, always the triumphant due to the power they had over men, and obviously Norman. Look beyond the technical and just enjoy his art for what it says - be free in spirit and mind, and never stop enjoying sensuality. Don't go by the website without taking a look at his etchings, possibly one of the best at that craft the world has ever seen.
He was the artist featured in the lighthearted romp "Sirens".

[Fatesailor]

Thanks for the further information desertqueen. I did not know the things you wrote. Really, sensuality is a very serious issue and, alas, is still, in our allegedly enlightened age, confronted with an artificial (hence the so hideous commercialization of it) interest and liberty. This artist had a real obsession -as it seems- with it. A divine obsession, a deep passion of authenticity regarding it. Hence all this sense of awe which his depicting of flesh is conveying.