Amrita Sher-Gil

I saw this article about Amrita Sher-Gil on the Telegraph.co.uk site - The Indian Frida Kahlo.

Amrita Sher-Gil (1913-1941) as Tahitian
She was the daughter of a "Sikh aristocrat and a Hungarian opera singer". Born in 1913, she grew up in Budapest and at the "family estate at Simla, in the foothills of the Himalayas", in the Punjab area. At age 16, she moved to Paris to study at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts.

As her style developed, upon her return to India, she 

synthesized European and Indian styles and sensibilities. She embraced sensuality. She painted straightforward, non-sentimental images of women.

Self-portrait as a Tahitian (1934) 

"Europe belongs to picasso, matisse and braque and many others. india belongs only to me."

She died at age 28 - probably of hemorrhaging following an abortion .

Amrita Sher-Gil, Sleep, 1932.

Amrita Sher-Gil, Three Girls, 1935. 

Cecelia Webber's Flowers Made Of Nude Bodies

I saw this on HuffingtonPost.com. It's pretty fun - people, naked people, colorized, grouped and arranged to look like flowers.

From the interview posted:

The models up until this point in time have all been volunteers. I've had a lot of people offer to pose for my pieces spontaneously. This month will actually mark the first in which I actively recruit models, and I'm going for a mix of different ages, body types, and ethnicities. [Our] culture can be very youth-centric and airbrushed, and I'm interested in portraying a much broader picture. I also appear as the model in a great deal of my artwork; I spent the first two years making this art with a self-timer on a little point and shoot digital camera I rigged up using the hanger bar in my closet.

It should be some great inspiration for my photoshop class I teach.

I like that as plants and with colors - the human bodies become like anything else in nature - natural. The context of sexuality has been removed.