981 - Ron Marston, standing female nude by the water, nude painting, female nude on a reedy shore

Ron Marston, standing female nude by the water, nude painting, female nude on a reedy shore Oil on canvas, signed lower right, standing female nude in frontal view, the head slightly inclined, long brown hair, red lips, the arms at the sides of the body, behind a body of water with reflections, on the right a row of dark posts in the water, in the foreground reed grass, in the background dense green deciduous trees under a light sky, good condition commensurate with age, partial paint losses, image 93x62 cm (HxW), overall dimensions 99x68 cm (HxW). The depiction of the naked human body became an independent pictorial subject as early as Greek antiquity. Since the Renaissance, the study of the nude has been part of painters' training; the art academy founded in Florence in 1563 was the first to teach proportion and anatomy from the living model. In the 19th century, Renoir, Manet and Degas showed unclothed people without a narrative pretext in entirely everyday situations.