The Most Controversial Paintings of the Male Body

Explore how great artists paint the male body on this tour of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. Bring fine art reproductions of Men in Art into your home: ► Shop Gustave Courbet "Study of a Man" 1840 - https://tobynomad.com/products/study-... ► Shop Art Prints & Canvas at - https://tobynomad.com/collections/all Known lovingly as "The Met", this is the greatest museum in America. In this short tour we will study 4 paintings by great masters of European Art that I found in the Met. All four of these artists paint the male form eloquently, but with their own emphases and styles. You will see the male body in a new light and across the ages. What was important or ideal hundreds of years ago? What is now? I can't wait to hear from you in the comment section. This is a new style of museum deep dive that I am trying for all my art and museum lovers. :) → Contact: [email protected] If you love this video check out the rest of my ongoing Men in Art Series, just Click right here:    • The Most Controversial Paintings of the Ma...   Please LEAVE A COMMENT below, I love reading them! Have you been to the Met? Where are your favorite paintings of the male body? And how has YOUR view of the ideal male body changed over time? Let me know in the comments section below Chapters: 00:00 Intro 00:37 The Death of Socrates – Jacques-Louis David (1787) 03:39 Study of a Nude Man – Attributed to Gustave Courbet (Early 1840s) 07:22 Man on a Diving Board – Aksel Waldemar Johannessen (1912) 10:48 A Bashi-Bazouk – Charles Bargue (1875) 17:04 What's Next?