Yes, you can now show actual nudes on Tumblr again.  Three years ago, Tumblr decided that nipples were evil and I just couldn't deal with those little IG eraser squiggles so I stopped posting there.  But they have reconsidered.  I used to love tumblr.  A good relaxed community and lots of great photographers post there.  So now I will go back and see how it works.

If you have a tumblr page, post it for others to follow.  I am:

https://www.tumblr.com/blog/analyticanatomy

(non-figurative work is at https://www.tumblr.com/blog/icyoh)

I'm https://www.tumblr.com/blog/matt-h2

No new postings yet since the nipple ban was relaxed. I've been looking at other options too. Anyway, I might tiptoe back.

Also, followed you.

figurative |ˈfiɡyərədiv|
adjective
1 departing from a literal use of words; metaphorical: gold, in the figurative language of the people, was “the tears wept by the sun.”
2 (of an artist or work of art) representing forms that are recognizably derived from life.

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"Figurative art describes any form of modern art that retains strong references to the real world and particularly to the human figure"  ie: see Picasso's abstract work

"The term has been particularly used since the arrival of abstract art to refer to artists that retain aspects of the real world as their subject matter, though in a general sense figurative also applies retrospectively to all art before abstract art."

https://www.tate.org.uk/art/art-terms/f/figurative-art
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Figurative art, sometimes written as figurativism, describes artwork (particularly paintings and sculptures) that is clearly derived from real object sources and so is, by definition, representational. The term is often in contrast to abstract art:

Since the arrival of abstract art the term figurative has been used to refer to any form of modern art that retains strong references to the real world.[1]

Painting and sculpture can therefore be divided into the categories of figurative, representational and abstract, although, strictly speaking, abstract art is derived (or abstracted) from a figurative or other natural source. However, "abstract" is sometimes used as a synonym for non-representational art and non-objective art, i.e. art which has no derivation from figures or objects.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Figurative_art
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"Non-figurative art describes a work of art in which neither forms nor figures are represented realistically. Non-figurative art may distort a form or figure so that it is unrecognizable, or it may not present a form or figure at all but rather a design, shape, or color."

?Definitions of nonfigurative. adjective. not representing or imitating external reality or the objects of nature. synonyms: abstract, abstractionist, nonobjective nonrepresentational. of or relating to a style of art in which objects do not resemble those known in physical nature.?  https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/nonfigurative

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Therefore, when applied to art, the term figurative is literally figurative and yet can be abstract or literal.

Can a photo of a figure be figurative when a photo is inherently realist?  A photo of an egg isn't figurative because it represents the figure of an egg.  A painting of an egg in a different shape or form might be figurative if it is recognizable as an egg in the form presented.

RECLINING NUDE By Amedeo Modigliani is realist is the body but abstract in the face, therefore figurative?  Whistler's Mother is of a figure but is not figurative because it is not abstract.  (mature)

Gustav Klimt was an Austrian symbolist painter and one of the most prominent members of the Vienna Secession movement. Klimt is noted for his paintings, murals, sketches, and other objets d'art. Klimt's primary subject was the female body,[1] and his works are marked by a frank eroticism.[2] Amongst his figurative works, which include allegories and portraits, he painted landscapes.   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustav_Klimt   (mature)

Yet Rose Garland (BRIAN MCCARTHY) is presented as figurative when it is realistic.  Or since it is likely whimsical, does that make it figurative? https://fineartamerica.com/featured/ros … arthy.html {mature}

An iceberg would be a landscape (seascape?), not a figure or figurative.  A pyramid would be a landscape of a mathematical (geometric) figure, but not figurative unless unrealistic.  However, an abstract iceberg would be figurative if not realistic, if it is "representing forms that are recognizably derived from life?"


Geez.  Not clear cut.

I have a tumblr too. Now people are back into tumblr, I guess I'll throw my account into this thread.

https://samanthagracenet.tumblr.com/

I'm tentatively back:

https://www.tumblr.com/rtallentart

And, unlike MM, I can have an implied nude in my profile pic.