Lately there have been some nice items from the classic physique era come on the resale market, and today I am posting ten recent finds. We start with Andy McCullar by Frank Collier of Art-Kraft.
Vintage Muscle Men
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Thursday, September 19, 2024
Mike by Vic
English photographer Vic White took this picture of Mike Tozer. Mr. White worked
in the Portsmouth area, and many of his models are said to have been Royal Navy men.
Bert and Alan
Bert Goodrich, Mr. America 1939 (left) shakes hands with Mr. America 1946, Alan Stephan.
The photo is by an unknow staff photographer for the LA Daily News.
Leopard print brief trunks must have been in style that year.
Wednesday, September 18, 2024
Polaroid Day
It's time for another set of Polaroid images. Some of today's offerings, like this one, approach professional level in terms of image quality, models, and composition. Others, not so much.
Dizzy
That 1970s wallpaper will make you dizzy if you look at it long enough.
The model will not doubt have the same effect on some of you.
Backside
This man has some decent back muscle development,
but that probably isn't what most of you are looking at.
Streaks
I couldn't do this series without at least one Polaroid showing the streaks and blotches inherent
in the application of the fixer at the end of the development process. The mode is looking
at a girlie magazine which does not seem to have had much effect on him so far.
Beer or soda?
I"m not entirely sure if that's a beer or a soda in the model's hand.
Given the usual circumstances of such photo shoots, I'll go with beer.
Ditch the shirt
I know some viewers like the half dressed or mostly undressed look. but I wish
this fellow would ditch the shirt so we could see the rest of his chest hair.
That look
I can't figure out the facial expression on our last Polaroid hero.
He's either pensive or not too happy about something.
Tuesday, September 17, 2024
Franz von Stuck II
Today will be the second full series I have done on the work of Franz von Stuck (1863-1926), a German artist who was quite versatile in terms of media and style. He is best known for paintings and drawings, but he also was a very good sculptor, furniture designer, and poster artist. He also did book illustrations and a line of greeting cards. His home, Villa von Stuck, was furnished from top to bottom with items he designed ranging from place mats to tapestries to curtains and carpets. He was also not above getting naked and having some fun, as shown above. You have to love this guy.
Adam and Eve, Two Takes
Snakes entwined with women (and sometimes men) are a recurrent theme in Franz von Stuck's work. Obviously, he wasn't about to let the Adam and Eve biblical fairy tale pass him by. Above, we have his 1920 painted version, and below, an 1893 relief sculpture. Eve is pretty much the same in both,
but we get two very different versions of Adam.
Athlete . . . or Atlas?
On the relatively rare occasions when von Stuck sculpted, he was very good at it. This post includes three views of The Athlete, which some observers have described as a different take on Atlas.
We start with a very well formed derriere view.
This version of a frontal view is OK, but the one below is better.
Spring Procession?
This is clearly labeled Spring Procession in a book of Franz von Stuck's work, but I can't find a painting by that name (in either English or German) anywhere. The only thing even close was a work called Bacchanalian Procession, and it does not have a male even vaguely resembling this.
Having said all that, I find it to be a perfectly fine stand alone work of art.
Study - Struggle for Women
After having previously posted the painting The Struggle for Women, I found this study for it.
I have to say I like it much better than the finished work shown again below.
Prometheus
Franz von Stuck painted Prometheus in 1926, and it reminds me in some ways of the work of Sasha Schneider. Von Stuck seems to have greatly perferred Classical over Biblical themes in his work.
Not academic
While this looks like typical 19th C. academic work, it is part of a collection of 20th C. studies that Franz von Stuck did for paintings. Many of those only vaguely resemble the finished works, and the curators of the website where I found this charcoal drawing did not reference a painting.
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