Fat Art Appreciation

A respectful homage to people of size in fine art, history, and popular culture’

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By the Pool by artist Julia The Pooh

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Laura Aguilar is a Los Angeles-based photographer whose work mines the intersection between feminism, body image, queer politics, and latinx identity. Her earliest works depicted latina lesbians in intimate portraits, calling to mind the frankness of Catherine Opie, while her best known series features self-portraits of Aguilar posed nude in the California desert landscape. These photographs are instantly striking, finding in the artist’s body formal elements that echo the landscape itself, as in its doubling here with the giant rock that eludes the frame. Aguilar also forces our gaze onto a body that does not conform to stereotypical images of latinx or feminine identity—a body type that is not so much othered as invisible, despite its ubiquity. The artist originally began to produce these photos as a means of grappling with her own issues with weight and self-acceptance, but quickly came to see them as something more. They offer a profound, ambivalent vision of woman and nature. We see Aguilar dissolve into the landscape in search of anonymity, at the same time that she reclaims the pride and beauty in her body far removed from the society that rejects it.

Laura Aguilar, Grounded #111, 1992

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Sumo (2019) with superb photographer Sylvie Blum and her divinely beautiful subject, Angelina Duplisea, with her devastatingly iconic derriere, a total masterpiece of human perfection!

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Berlin artist Marie Schwab … I love this pic and its wide variety of bellied guests as well as their friendly canine friends!

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Fold by artist Scott Hutchison

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Wonderful art by Jette Asmussen!

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From the superb Mexican digital artist Nacho Dung … wonderful work indeed!

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Figurative art by Maine artist Joan Vienot

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Artist William Yu … such a beauty!

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Chuppy Lady by artist Raija Merilä

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Consumption of Images, Self-Image, and the Self (2017) by Julie Emmer

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Summer lovin’

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Another of Louis Carriere’s stunning beauties from the French Riviera … the caption translates to “the swimwear is quite becoming this year.”

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A true summer time art favorite of mine!

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Earth Mother 2, a stupendous work by Russian artist Andrey Surnov and simply stunning to behold!

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Jalen Brunson scores 45 to lead my New York Knicks to their first NBA title in 53 years! And, of course, he snagged the NBA championship MVP too. Great job guys — we’re all so proud!

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A spectacular 1930’s photograph of Chicago White Sox owner J. Louis Comiskey (1885-1939), who sadly passed of heart disease as the mere age of 53. His dad owned the Sox before him before he assumed ownership in 1931. He’s my image of a great sports executive, looking totally and completely large and in charge! The Comiskey family owned and managed the Sox until 1961 when Louis’s son lost a turf fight to gain majority ownership that had originally been deeded to his sister but then sold by her outside the family (the son made the mistake of giving her a low bid, thinking incorrectly she wouldn’t sell to an outsider). Bad move!

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Resting by Candice Flewharty