Mrs. Carter's Non-Collaborateurs, In Non-Chronological Order

1. Herb Ritts Andie MacDowell in Hawaii, 1984
2. Leonor Fini The Ends Of The Earth, 1949
3. Marylin Minter Splish Splash, 2005
4. Irving Penn Issey Miyake, 1991
5. Man Ray Le Violon d'Ingres, 1924
6. Herb Ritts El Mirage, 1990
7. René Magritte The Lovers, 1928
8. Guy Bourdin In Between, 2010
9. René Laloux Fantatsic Planet, 1973
10. Erwin Blumenfeld Vogue, 1950
11. Robert Mapplethorpe Lisa Lyon, 1980

For her self-entitled #VisualAlbum 'BEYONCÉ', Beyoncé has been seeking expressionist advice from French surrealism and its tradition in film and fashion photography.

Beyond well-established motifs of modern and contemporary art, the content also reflects something soft-political: feminist speech clashes with sexist slang ('Bow Down Bitches') and masochistic submission ('I Cooked This Meal For You Naked.'). A work on rough love, drunk love, jealousy. Not an artwork though - but a commercially valuable, visual-acustic product.
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The Nude Portrait V

category b.1) back view, contrapposto


1. Jack Pierson Thursday Morning, Studio 7, 2013
2. Albert Edelfelt Male Nude 1, 1859

category b.2) sitting, in thoughts

3. Edouard Naudin Half-Nude Figure, 1840
4. Mustafa Sabbagh Untitled
5. Peter Churcher Untitled, 2012

category b.3) side view, dynamic



6. Herb Ritts 1997
7. Greg Vaughan Rodrigo, 2012
8. Danko Steiner 032c, Winter 2011/2012

category b.4) side view, relaxed

9. Mariano Vivanco Uomini, 2011
10. Mariano Vivanco Uomini, 2011
11. Mikel Marton Watercololored Past Lives, 2012

category b.5) lying down, back revealed



12. Matthias Vriens Feminine Touch, 2005
13. Bruce Weber Mi Tres Cabaña De Estudios Frente Al Mar, 2010
14. Jürgen Teller Paradis VII, 2009

The posterior view. Although the subject is completely naked, a reversed presentation creates an image that is rather physical (in terms of sculpture) than sexual (in terms of erotic photography). And yet, frontal depictions dominate fashion and art history. Reason enough for a celebration of the bubble butt.
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