Anita Kunz

Inspired by her own art students' struggles and triumphs with nude life drawing, Anita Kunz turns her brushes to nearly 150 speculative portraits of famous figures, stripped of their vanities and as unpretentiously posed as life models. Alone or grouped, male marvels and monsters and musicians stand, lean, and sit for the imaginary eye of the acclaimed painter and illustrator....

Have you ever awakened from a sleepy delirium one morning and imagined that you lived in a different and glorious world where all the recognised masterpieces in the Western pantheon of art history were painted by women? If not, no problem: the renowned and award-winning painter and illustrator Anita Kunz has imagined it for you in her hilariously inventive and...