Agape Charmani for Art-Sheep
Philipe Pearlstein is an artist well-known for his playful nudes. Painting his nude figures since the 1950s, Pearlstein has explored the naked body and its posture, placing it into the cultural states of each decade. From pool items to folk art, Pearlstein has his subjects interact with their or his private space, bringing a comical feature to his models’ nudity, distracting the viewer and his voyeuristic sight.
The incommunicative, neutral expressions of Pearlstein’s naked figures in combination with the environment they’re in, creates a lack of eroticism, bringing these nude subjects in a state where they’re bareness is not sexually-charged. The use of colors and their contrast often upstage the feature of the stripped figures, with the artist accomplishing to draw the viewer’s attention to the scene and the setup of subjects and objects.
