Truth, Lies and Berlusconi: Italy's playboy premier accused of nudity cover-up

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Slap in the middle of the painting is a neat, round female breast. During press conferences, as a commentator writing for the daily La Stampa noted, the breast floats above the prime minister's head "like a halo". This, it was felt, was too much for the sensibilities of a nation that - long before Berlusconi came along - had been feasting its eyes on half-naked Magdalenes and Minervas, not to mention the blatantly erotic statuary of Antonio Canova. Tiepolo's breast, with attendant nipple, had to go.

Photos taken of the most recent press conference at Palazzo Chigi show the central figure has been retouched. An extra fold of clothing has appeared that covers the offending breast.

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Angel head bust (Roberto Fabelo)

Source. More paintings here.

Roberto Fabelo (b. Camagüey, Cuba, 1950)

Roberto Fabelo studied painting first at the Escuela Nacional de Arte and later at the Instituto Superior de Arte in Havana. Fabelo's most recent works in drawing, watercolor, oil, and installation pieces comment on the human condition, incorporating distorted human and animal figures into portraits and fantastic scenery. He employs elements of Expressionism and Surrealism in his work, while at the same time grounding the images in an almost academic and historical setting in order to question the division between fantasy and reality. Besides painting, Fabelo teaches art in Cuba and has also worked as an illustrator for novels by the Columbian author, Gabriel García Márquez. His work has been shown in more than forty personal exhibitions and over 500 group exhibitions worldwide, including Cuba, France, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Spain, and the United States. He has received numerous awards for his work, including first prize at the Primera Bienal Iberoamericana de la Acuarela, Viña del Mar, Chile (1996) and a UNESCO prize for the promotion of fine art (1996). Fabelo lives and works in Havana, Cuba. (source)

Voluptuous figures of middle-aged women whose heads have been removed

Lin Tianmiao Mother's!!! No. 12 (detail) 2008 Courtesy: The artist and Long March Space, Beijing

The white, voluptuous figures of middle-aged women, whose heads have been removed, or remain abstract and devoid of human features, have been placed in deliberately ambiguous postures. The surface of these bodies are delicately wrapped in a pearl-like material, these figures at times placed in private remonstrations suggesting the expelling of bodily waste, or seemingly pulled apart and laid bare, the innards of the body transformed into ominous balls and threads which suggest an interconnected relationship with the animal and plant world. The boundaries between people and their surroundings; male and female; internal and external; between different types of species, are blurred and broken, creating a chaotic environment which questions the nature of the world it inhabits. (source)

Writhing sinners move across a seven-by-eight foot charcoal and graphite drawing

Hugo Crosthwaite: Untitled, New York 2007. Source.

Stalin boobs

Art Chronika is Russia's leading monthly magazine for contemporary art, antiques and fine arts.

An abundance of boobs and bonnets, but little else to offer

"Well, there they are. The breasts of the women, in the Serpentine Gallery, courtesy of the artist Richard Prince. They're airbrushed all over a real 1987 Buick Grand National, a cheesy all-American "girl" pasted onto a cheesy all-American car."

From a review by Bidisha.

Portrait by Sanders McNew

Portrait by Sanders McNew. Tip: turn of CSS & Javascript to be spared the crappy browse interface (nice graceful degradation). Via

Yves Klein "body painting"

ANT 2 (1961) by YVES KLEIN. From an auction. It's estimated at 1.5 million USD.

Unlike other works in the Anthropométries series in which Klein choreographed painted models to leave bodily imprints on paper, in ANT 2 Klein arranged the model, lying face-down on paper, and sprayed blue pigment around the body to create a negative impression.

Memory of the Child-Woman by Salvador Dali

Salvador Dali, Memory of the Child-Woman, oil on canvas, with collage, 1931. © Salvador Dalí Museum, Inc. St. Petersburg Florida, (2008). Link.

Google AdSense Programme Policies vs A Tiny Painted Vulva

Update: this post lost us our Google Ads. Because of a painted vulva. And a complaining commenter probably. "As stated in our programme policies, AdSense publishers are not permitted to place Google ads on pages with adult or mature content." So Art Boobs is looking for a new sponsor.

"Darling! I Have so Many Times Told You Not to Take Photos of Me All the Time!" by Jaroslaw Kukowski, oil on board, 60x80 cm.

I''ll let fellow blogger Jahsonic defend this painting: "There are a 1001 reasons not to like Jarosław Kukowski , the first one probably that his art is kitsch. But so is Odd Nerdrum’s, John Currin’s, Hajime Sorayama’s and most other new figurative artists of the post-war era. There is only one reason not not to like Kukowski, and that is this Venus."

More desktop wallpaper sized paintings here.