THE NEWPORT NUDE | Video clip

The controversy surrounding the so-called "Newport Nude" painting by Sir Gerald Festus Kelly was featured on the BBC Radio Wales news programme "Good Evening Wales" on 22 July 2008:







THE ART OF THE NUDE: ARTISTS EXPLORE THE HUMAN FORM | An exhibition of drawings, prints, painting and sculpture | Guest Curators John Wilson & Roger Cucksey | Newport Museum and Art Gallery, 19 July - 20 September 2008.

"The Newport Nude" painting was featured in the UK daily press on 22 July 2008: see news archive





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DAILY MIRROR | "Too rude" nude is exposed 60 years on | 22 July 2008

Above | DAILY MIRROR, "Too rude" nude is exposed 60 years on

Sir Gerald Festus Kelly's "Newport Nude" hit the national headlines in the Daily Mirror once again today, Tuesday 22 July 2008.

See below for the controversy surrounding Festus Kelly's feisty nude when it was exhibited at Newport Museum and Art Gallery in 1947, with a petition for its removal and a headline in the DAILY MIRROR, A Bishop Objects to "Nude" Bought by Town (31 Dec 1947)

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THE ART OF THE NUDE: ARTISTS EXPLORE THE HUMAN FORM | Guest Curators John Wilson & Roger Cucksey | Newport Museum and Art Gallery | 19 July - 20 September 2008

An exhibition exploring the genre of the nude in the permanent collections of the Newport Museum and Art Gallery.

THE ART OF THE NUDE | Exhibition opening 18 July 2008

The exhibition THE ART OF THE NUDE will be opened by painter Harry Holland on Friday 18 July 2008

* Contact Newport Museum and Art Gallery for attendance details
* View ART OF THE NUDE: Exhibition leaflet (pdf)

THE ART OF THE NUDE: ARTISTS EXPLORE THE HUMAN FORM | Guest Curators John Wilson & Roger Cucksey | Newport Museum and Art Gallery | 19 July - 20 September 2008

An exhibition exploring the genre of the nude in the permanent collections of the Newport Museum and Art Gallery.

> View | THE ART OF THE NUDE - exhibition selection process



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* "Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed" - William Blake

* "The body always expresses the spirit whose envelope it is. And for him who can see, the nude offers the richest meaning" - Auguste Rodin

* "I was trained as a painter. I'm very familiar with the nude body, masculine and feminine. I do, I suppose have a soapbox position, and I want to be certain that the human body is in the center of the frame." - Peter Greenaway, Film- maker

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