I discovered these images today. The artist is Hu Ming. You can see her website here. In an essay about her work, the scholar Mabel Lee denies any lesbian content: "Hu Ming's women in this series of works are sensual but in no sense erotic, nor are they confronting. Beautiful breasts and beautiful buttocks are portrayed, but in frontal depictions the lower abdomen is always discretely covered. What exudes from these works is an unmistakable exuberance for life."
Hu Ming, Wake up Call, 140 x 106 cm, Oil on Canvas, 2007
Hu Ming, Enemy Invasion Alarm, 140 x 106 cm, Oil on Canvas, 2006
How can one possibly claim that these images are not erotic? How can one claim that the lower abdomen is discretely covered? It is perhaps strategically covered, but not particularly discretely. If this is what exuberance for life looks like, sign me up!
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