He Drew Men the Way No One Dared To | New at LACMA Los Angeles

In 1810, while Jacques-Louis David was turning the male body into political propaganda — rigid warriors built to die for the Empire — one artist quietly did the opposite. Pierre-Paul Prud'hon picked up two sticks of chalk, a sheet of cheap blue ledger paper, and drew the male form the way no one in Napoleonic France dared to: soft, luminous, sensual, and human. The result hangs today at the new LACMA in Los Angeles. Most visitors walk past it. They shouldn't. ✨ Elevate your space with classical art history: ► Shop "Study of a Man" by Pierre-Paul Prud'hon, 1810 at - https://tobynomad.com/products/pierre... ► Shop Art Prints & Canvas at - https://tobynomad.com/collections/all Happy to answer any questions you may as well: → Contact: [email protected] Chapters 0:00 The Male Body Masterpiece Drawing You'd Walk Right Past 1:15 The Secret of the Blue Paper - Making the Male Body 3D 2:04 Showing Man's Vulnerability 3:33 The Working Class Models Who Posed Exposed 7:03 The Lover Who Held the Other Chalk 9:47 How Courbet and Others Based Their Male Bodies Off of Him #art #arthistory *Note: For those of you going to LACMA to see this, it's in the room between 55 and 56 on the map in the new Geffen Galleries. Entry is free for LA county residents from 3:00 pm to 6:00 pm on Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday. If you go see it in person please leave a comment here and let me know what you thought!