Suchitra - I Am a Woman

V-day!

2025-05-03T12:29:00.000-07:00

The real V-day gets celebrate when our V's are loved. What do you say?

New Series: Sexy Slayers

2025-02-09T07:36:00.000-08:00

I have started a new series tributing the women who didn't care the boundary of so called society-imposed "decency".

My first contribution goes with the beautiful model Bianca Censori, who recently appeared with a sheer dress with her husband Kaney West during the Grammy Red Carpet photoshoot.

Nudes: By Stefan Beutler

2018-08-16T12:17:00.002-07:00

Some of the beautiful works by Stefan Beutler.

Works by Eric Ceccarini

2016-12-13T15:43:00.000-08:00

Uploading a few amazing photography by Belgian artist Eric Ceccarini.

Let me know which one you like the most.

Mirror of Venus by Wingate Paine

2016-09-08T13:16:00.003-07:00

Uploading a few magnificent works by photographer Wingate Paine from his 1966 book Mirror of Venus. The first one is very popular and it shows how feminine breasts can offer a appealing landscape.

I like the way he played with symmetries, curves, and emotions.

And here is "Venus" watching herself in the "Mirror".

The "Bosoms" series

2016-06-08T10:32:00.000-07:00

There have been lots of taboos related to female body parts. Particularly women's breasts which can be revered as soft and beautiful. Unfortunately moral policing stops us to display or portray them. Facebook's community standards don't allow women's nipples, while male nipples are okay.

So I decided to start a new series called "Bosoms". Here are first two sketches.

Photography by Joel Bloch

2016-06-06T12:42:00.002-07:00

I am back after a long gap. Let me commence my blog with a few lovely photography by Joel Bloch.

I love the game he plays with light and darkness on a woman's body.

Most of the photographs belong to the series called "Obscures" and taken from http://www.photoforum.ru/.

I love the way her fingers crawl on her stomach. Excellent lighting !

You can see an emotion being beautifully played on the body below.

And this one is my best pick. Such an expression in her eye !

And the last one, a surreal one, titled "Fractals".

Father and daughter

2012-01-15T20:29:00.000-08:00

There's a definite difference between beauty and vulgarity. An artist's eyes always can identify the difference, whereas our conservative society can hardly recognize. If you see the nude paintings of oriental goddesses below, you'll immediately feel (if you have an artist-like sensibility), this pics are beautiful and innocent. These have been painted by famous Chinese oil-painter Li Zhuang Ping. And not obviously the nude model is her daughter, Li Qin.

Do you think this is perverted act?

Mahmoud Said

2012-01-12T03:24:00.000-08:00

I am putting some beautiful paintings by Mahmoud Said, who modernized the art in Egypt with his depth of feeling and colour.

Apsara

2011-06-19T02:46:00.000-07:00

Apsara's are divine dancers. They are mentioned in Hindu and Buddhist mythology. In Hindu puranas they are beautiful charmer who dance in the court of Indra, the king of the heaven. Apsaras are so full of eternal beauty that they are often sent to seduce people on earth who are trying to gain power by doing rigorous penance.

The beauty of apsaras have become a regular subject of Hindu art and architecture. Rambha, Menaka, Tilottama and Urvashi are a few famous names in Hindu scripts. Among all apsaras Urvashi is known to be most beautiful. Menaka is famous for her success in seducing Rishi (saint) Vishwamitra. It is said that while Menaka was bathing, Vishwamitra got arrested by her naked beauty. Artist Raja Ravi Varma painted a few Vis

Also in the Khmer Temple of Angkor Wat, Combodia, inscriptions of beautiful apsaras have been found. These apsaras are well-ornamented with a skirt and bare breasts. The apsara dnace is a part of Combodian traditional dances.

Many beautiful apsara paintings have been done by Combodian artist Reahu. However, the govt. banned his artwork in the country with the charge of obscenity to deities.

Mariette Lydis

2010-11-25T09:26:00.000-08:00

Mariette, Comtesse Govone, lived an extraordinary life of adventure and sexual intrigue. She was born Marietta Ronsperger in Vienna in 1887 (or, depending on which source you believe, 1890, 1892, or 1894). She married Jean Lydis in 1922, but left him for the Italian writer Massimo Bontempelli, who took her to Paris. In 1928 Mariette Lydis married the art publisher Comte Giuseppi Govone. Lydis had a great artistic success in 30s Paris, starting with a solo show at the Galerie Bernheim Jeune, after which she became a member and a juror at the Salon de Automne. Mariette Lydis fled the Nazis invasion of France with her lover Erica Marx, taking refuge in the sleepy Cotswold town of Winchcombe, before making a perilous voyage to Buenos Aires. Lydis was also close to the aviator Amelia Earhart. Mariette Lydis lived in Argentina for the rest of her life. Her style was influenced by that of the Japanese artist Tsuguharu Foujita, whom she knew in Montmartre. There is always an edge of ambiguous sexuality and danger in the art of Mariette Lydis, well-represented in our prints, hand-coloured drypoints for Verlaine's Parallelement and etchings and aquatints illustrating the poetry of Baudelaire and Rimbaud. Her work is in many major museums and collections worldwide.

Mariette Lydis working with a model

Minoan Women's Costume

2010-11-16T07:34:00.000-08:00

Lilith

2010-10-12T11:41:00.000-07:00

According to midrashic literature, Adam's first wife was not Eve but a woman named Lilith, who was created in the first Genesis account.

When God created Adam, he was lonely, so God created Lilith from the same dust from which Adam was molded. But they quarreled; Adam [the proverbial domineering male] wished to rule over Lilith. But Lilith [a militant feminist] was also proud and willful, claiming equality with Adam because she was created from the same dust.

One day Adam commanded Lilith to lay beneath him, she refused. She left Adam and fled the Garden. God sent three angels in pursuit of Lilith. They caught her and ordered her to return to Adam. She refused again.

They let her go, and God created Eve to be Adam's mate [created from Adam's rib, so that she couldn't claim equality]. Lilith was banished from the world of Adam and Eve but she occasionally managed to sneak back. She became Adam's forbidden fruit or the evil serpent, someone he could not forget about.

Who was she? Was there another woman that God created before Eve that rebelled? Was she an ancient Sumerian demon? Was she a counterpart to Lucifer? Was she the originator of demons and vampires? These questions and many others have been theorized and studied for centuries. One thing all accounts seem to agree upon... Lilith was a force to be reckoned with.

http://www.trueghosttales.com/who-was-lilith.php

http://witcombe.sbc.edu/eve-women/7evelilith.html

http://witcombe.sbc.edu/eve-women/lilithimages.html

Lady Godiva

2010-10-12T11:19:00.000-07:00

Godiva was the wife of Leofric (968–1057), Earl of Mercia. was an Anglo-Saxon noblewoman who, according to legend, rode naked through the streets of Coventry in England in order to gain a remission of the oppressive toll imposed by her husband on his tenants. (People of Coventry, who were suffering grievously under her husband’s oppressive taxation.) Lady Godiva appealed again and again to her husband, who obstinately refused to remit the tolls. At last, weary of her entreaties, he said he would grant her request if she would ride naked through the streets of the town. Lady Godiva took him at his word. Another theory has it that Lady Godiva’s “nakedness” may refer to her riding through the streets stripped of her jewellery, the trademark of her upper class rank.

Francisco Goya (1746 – 1828)

2010-10-11T06:34:00.000-07:00

Famous Spanish painter Francisco Goya appeared during the transit of Old Masters to modern artist. His masterpieces were the Maja's : La maja desnuda, The naked Maja (1800) and La maja vestida, The clothed Maja (1803). Both are kept side by side in the Prado museum, Madrid.

Many people claim that The naked Maja has the first clear depiction of female pubic hair in a large Western painting (source: wikipedia).

He is also known for his tapestry cartoons. Here you can visit the galleries of his artworks.

Gallery 1:

Gallery 2:

The Birth of Venus

2010-10-09T12:36:00.000-07:00

Don't know how to put captions. Well, these are my three favourite The Birth of Venus.

1) Alexandre Cabanel, 1863

2) William-Adolne-Bouguereau, 1879

3) Sandro Boiticelli, 1486

More Art-Work

2010-10-09T05:34:00.000-07:00

A few more submissions. Titles wanted again.

My Rendition

2010-10-08T12:06:00.000-07:00

Some of my old art-work. I had been looking for suitable titles.

Amrita Shergill

2010-10-08T10:45:00.000-07:00

Amrita Shergil is one of the most remarkable artists of India. At the time of pre-independence such a bold skill was hard to imagine or observe. Here I have attached two beautiful paintings by her which reflect the women's beauty as well as her skill in contemporary art. One of these is her self-portrait and the other one is live study of her beautiful sister, Indira.

Nudity or vulgarity

2008-07-29T12:27:00.000-07:00

I am a great admirer of art. I specifically like nude paintings. Some people may find me vulgar, some may call me pervert. But I don't see any sin in worshiping human anatomy ! Being an Indian woman, one may feel a little awkward while uttering such words. But I am a very scientific-minded person. We must admit nature's creativity and admire the beauty lying there.

Here is a sketch that I made roughly using charcoal. I love female figures. And I feel no shame to depict them.