In his elegant tempura paintings, cadmus emphasizes his subjects’ musculature in a style akin to magical realism, offering a level of intricate detail beyond observable life. Cadmus first gained recognition for his 1934 painting the fleet's in, where the controversy of a group of sailors he pictured carousing among prostitutes and homosexuals inspired a public outcry. While the painting is not on public display, a smaller etching of the piece is currently included in the male nude, revealing in detail cadmus’s subversive sexualization of the sailors, featuring exaggerated crotches and bulbous buttocks in tight clothing.
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His first exhibition in 20 years, paul cadmus
The male nudes is the first show to highlight this body of work
“we’re lucky to be able to combine them with eight of his major paintings,” says moore “we wanted to show his mastery of drawing and his obsession with it Paul cadmus is best known for his erotic depictions of nude male figures, charged with satire, social criticism, and a strongly idealized sexuality
