Male Artist on Female Figures
Alan Feltus, Untitled (1970-72) Oil. Private Collection.
Facebook comments can be revealing. Alan Feltus is a contemporary artist whose work I have written about before. He just posted photos on his FB page of 3 paintings done while he was a resident Fellow at the American Academy in Rome in the early 1970's. It was there that he started painting female nudes without a model. He still does. Someone, another painter, posted the comment below to which he replied:
Contact: "amazing that you do this without models. I work figuratively from imagination too at times. Very challenging"
Alan Feltus: "In these early paintings I used a few photographs for some, not all, of the figures. Otherwise I use a mirror and myself."
For female figures, that is.
To see more of Feltus' art, click here.
Posted 26 Jan 2015: AndrogynyContemporary Art
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Reader Comments
That’s an interesting Facebook revelation by Alan Feltus. I’m not familiar with his work but I’m enjoying some focus on the forms and expressions within Untitled(1970-1972). Actually, I feel this is quite a fertile thought stream and I intend more attention with this artwork and artist.
A strong creative outlook, for me, is necessity breeds invention. I hear that echoed in Mr. Feltus’s reflection. Also, the idea that one is not what one lacks, resonates with me and feels amplified here within.
Thanks for sharing your insights.
Adam Brown
21 Feb 2015
Thank you, Adam, for sharing yours!
Simon Abrahams
21 Feb 2015