when did body hair begin in art?

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― mark s (mark s), Sunday, 5 March 2006 15:20 (eighteen years ago) link

I read somewhere that in Victorian times axillary hair was just TOO SEXXXXXY so it had to be kept from view.

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Sunday, 5 March 2006 15:40 (eighteen years ago) link

I suppose someone should make a reference to John Ruskin, although that story might not be really true.

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Sunday, 5 March 2006 15:40 (eighteen years ago) link

Modligliani had a bunch of nudes with underarm hair.

― Je4nn3 ƒur¥ (Je4nne Fury), Sunday, 5 March 2006 15:55 (eighteen years ago) link

haha xpost that's immediately what i thought of when i saw this thread & i can't believe nobody has mentioned it until now! (re: john ruskin)

― killy (baby lenin pin), Sunday, 5 March 2006 17:43 (eighteen years ago) link

invention of photography: 1826
ruskin marries effie gray: 1848

unspoken theory here: turner's entire pictography is a study of female body hair

― mark s (mark s), Sunday, 5 March 2006 17:52 (eighteen years ago) link

if only john ruskin had been around in the era of the brazilian and the hollywood

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Monday, 6 March 2006 02:58 (eighteen years ago) link

some paintings of john the baptiser had hair on chest and armpits, i think (15th/16th)

― anthony easton (anthony), Monday, 6 March 2006 07:00 (eighteen years ago) link

i have nothing to add besides john ruskin. and i have been beaten to the punch.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 6 March 2006 09:20 (eighteen years ago) link

hotei goes disco
I describe that image as 'Saturday Night Fever Hotei' on the page I linked to!

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 6 March 2006 10:39 (eighteen years ago) link

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