Talk:Homme au bain (painting)

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Did you know... that Boston's Museum of Fine Arts sold eight works to fund the purchase of Man at His Bath (pictured), reportedly because of donor reluctance to pay for "a painting showing some random guy's naked butt"?

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Back view of a bloke

His scrotum is highly significant if you are writing for sensation. In writing about the composition of the image, there are many more important parts of the body which are unmentioned, so mentioning one very small detail is out of place. In the case of a female nude, you wouldn't normally mention that her pubic region was visible. If you are going to focus on his genitals, then it needs to be done in context. The fact that his scrotum can be seen may be relevant to why the painting wasn't liked enough to receive funding.

How incredibly stuffy! What the gallery really needs is a major work by Lucian Freud [1] ! Amandajm (talk) 01:46, 15 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The intent of mentioning those specifically was not to focus on them, but because the analysis that I read in doing the background research paid special attention to both. Truth be told, I wouldn't have even noticed the genitals if I hadn't read it in one of the Broude essays. Perhaps I could have added more about this, but I really only had time to summarize the analysis that I read. That analysis section in particular could be expanded quite a bit more with much of the material I read.Cmprince (talk) 23:49, 15 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Composition

Is there an analysis of the composition of this painting available? Or has the whole focus been on its subject matter? Amandajm (talk) 01:51, 15 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Much of the material I found was about the history of the painting from its Les XX showing to the MFA. Garb and Broude in particular offer analyses, but much of it was about the controversy surrounding it. Cmprince (talk) 23:51, 15 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

File:Gustave Caillebotte -Man at His Bath.jpg to appear as POTD soon

Hello! This is a note to let the editors of this article know that File:Gustave Caillebotte -Man at His Bath.jpg will be appearing as picture of the day on March 14, 2016. You can view and edit the POTD blurb at Template:POTD/2016-03-14. If this article needs any attention or maintenance, it would be preferable if that could be done before its appearance on the Main Page. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 00:46, 28 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Homme au bain ("Man at His Bath") is an oil painting completed by the French Impressionist Gustave Caillebotte in 1884. The canvas measures 145 by 114 centimetres (57 in × 45 in). The painting was held in private collections from the artist's death until June 2011, when it was acquired by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Interpretations of the painting and its male nude have contrasted the figure's masculinity with his vulnerability.Painting: Gustave Caillebotte

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