THE PAINTINGS OF VALERIIA KOZHUKHOVALong before museums, art academies, or Instagram existed,
human beings were already painting, sculpting, and drawing the female body.
We have turned it into a symbol of fertility, motherhood, beauty, desire, power, sin, or freedom, depending on the era and on who was holding the brush. It has appeared on cave walls, in ancient sculptures, frescoes, paintings, photographs, and now on digital screens as well.
And this fascination has never belonged exclusively to men.
For centuries, men and women have tried to understand and portray a body capable of expressing so much without saying a single word. An arched back, crossed legs, or the curve of a hip can convey intimacy, vulnerability, strength, or desire, depending entirely on the artist’s perspective.
Perhaps that is why we keep coming back to it. The female body offers endless possibilities and, no matter how many times it has been portrayed,
it never runs out of things to say as an artistic subject. Every era interprets it in its own way, and every artist finds something different to express through it.
Artist
Valeriia Kozhukhova continues that tradition through paintings, watercolors, and digital artwork featuring nude women or women portrayed in intimate and sensual poses.
In her work, eroticism does not depend on showing everything. Sometimes a pose, a glance, a shadow, or a handful of strokes is enough to awaken something in the viewer.
The body becomes a model, a landscape, and a language all at once.
The tools, styles, and places where we view art have changed, but the fascination remains untouched.
We have spent thousands of years trying to turn the female body into art, and we still have not finished looking at it.
# View images and videos
GTA VI. Lucia’s phone. ❤️
instagram.com/nocturn.psd
LES PETITS REGARDS. PART ONELes Petits Regards is the artistic name of Anthony, a professional French photographer based in Paris. He began his career specializing in portraiture, but over time, he gradually shifted his focus toward artistic nude photography and a much more personal form of erotic imagery.
His work explores
intimacy, vulnerability, and the beauty of the human body through a sensitive and contemplative lens. His photographs exist somewhere between portraiture, artistic nudity, and visual storytelling, moving away from the explicit to focus on gestures, glances, and the connection that emerges when the person in front of the camera stops posing and simply begins to reveal herself.
His images contain skin, desire, and sensuality, but also silence, naturalness, and the strange feeling that we are witnessing
an intimate moment we were perhaps never supposed to see.
We saved so many of his photographs that trying to squeeze them all into a single post would have been madness. So today we’re sharing the first selection, and
tomorrow we’ll be back with part two.
# View photographs
One in three people checks their phone more than 100 times a day.