The Boudoir Art Attack
by Mike Marino

(Curvatures and Apertures, F Stops and G Spots)

The full figured female form as a provocative, romantic form of art has created a voracious appetite for the curvaceous woman. Curvy has become the Holy Grail of sensuous fascination, romantic expression and artistic interpretation. It permeates history from the days of those madcap prehistoric stone carvers to the racy sexual position depictions in the Kama Sutra.

Today it has broken the sound and color barrier of sensuality blazing exemplary trails in today's fashion universe, as well as in the burgeoning field of Boudoir Photography where curvy of all races women pose for images capturing their glory in a vortex of romantic voluptuousness in a setting to excite and titillate the senses of their significant other.

The earliest tribute found to glorify the curvy full figured Goddess appears to have been over 35,000 years ago. Archaeologists in Germany unearthed one of the earliest examples of figurative art found to date, and it is one of the earliest examples of homo-sapien homage to the busty big girl as an object of romantic worship. The obsidian stone curvy carving is a rare example of the pre-Ruebenesque artistic infatuation with the Plus Size Factor of admiration

It wasn’t until the explosion on canvas in the 17th Century that Peter Paul Reubens fanned the flames of femininity with his portraiture cavalcade of curvy models with voluptuous volumes of Flemish flesh. In the 1880’s August Renoir made a meteoric impact in the arena of expressive impressionist art with his well endowed portrayal on canvas of “The Reclining Nude”.

As technology advanced, the mediums for the rabid addiction of portraying the big girls sexuality raced to keep up with it. Louis Daguerre's 19th Century development of the photographic process caught the attention of campy artsy types in Paris who couldn't wait to make the medium the new message, and soon in they were cocking shutters instead as F-stops and apertures absorbed all the plus-sized women thee could to produce a plethora of buxom big girl beauty. Photographers during the eros era of the French postcard were mass producing deliciously daring images of white and curvy chocolate skinned vixens from from Paris, France to Morocco in Africa. Women of color were a particular favorite of photographers and the postcard buying public.

Soon, production costs came tumbling down and the proliferation of these photos crossed European borders in what can only be described as a curvy girl tsunami...across the big pond and then into the United States. The photos were so popular and proletarian friendly that they were sold by souvenir vendors at train stations and ship lines. Traveling salesmen picked up whole lines and catalogues and the photo spreads spread far and wide.

During the Roaring Twenties in America, women of color were breaking all barriers including expressing themselves in fields of stage sexuality in burlesque including troupe members of the curvy "Brownskin Models" and "Chocolate Scandals." Black venues and shows were all the rage of the golden jazz age, and Harlem was undergoing a renaissance where Black females dominated the stage and entertainment scene.

Around the same time, Albert Allen specialized in photographing big and beautiful women of all colors in San Francisco. This was not pornography by any stretch of the imagination, but post-Victorian morals still prevailed and he was arrested numerous times for “crossing the line” with his romantic depictions of the lush full inviting bodies of the curvy goddess. It was the dawn of the boudoir photograph as art.

In the later half of the 20th Century Steven Meisel graced the pages of Vogue as plus sized became vogue. He jump started the modern era of empowerment of the curvy female.

Boudoir photography allows a curvy vixen to pose for photos for her significant other, and the boudoir artist uses their lens and skills to create romantic works that are skillfully done to capture the innocence and beauty of the female form. Today the curvy woman is the new Queen of the Prom as her male and yes, her female admirers can’t get enough of her voluptuous cornucopia of physical beauty.

Today, the images of full figured women are leading the carnal charge of sensuality and sexuality as a committed cadre of photographers light the fuse of the libido in all of us as the aperture captures the curvature, preserving these images in a sexy cornucopia that includes fashion photography to Boudoir photography. Gone are the days of Twiggy and anorexia. The curvy woman rules, and has taken her rightful place on center stage. Queen Latifa and other women of color have set the new standard as the F stop triggers the lustful search for the curvy females G-Spot. Long Live the Queen!