Artistic strategies and motives for turning to the nude genre (exemplified by N.I. Feshin’s work)

Academician of the Imperial Academy of Arts, Russian and American artist N.I. Feshin (1881-1955) quite often turned to the nude genre in his work. The author of the article proves that this resulted from several reasons. Firstly, the image of a naked female body indicated the quality of Nikolai Ivanovich’s education and the need to improve the painting technique. Secondly, the psychological trauma of abandonment that was inflicted by his mother and the unpredictable behavior of his wife, a femme fatale, stimulated the artist’s interest in thinking about a female nature. Thirdly, the nude genre testified to the artistic perception of an object and the passion of the artist’s nature.