Victoria Pendleton

exposing the kind of body that's normally kept hidden and private strikes us as shocking and even faintly obscene (and much more artistically interesting, but that's another story...).

Oh no, she's introduced "The Female Nude in Art"! We could be here for another hundred posts :-)

This is the picture which your post immediately brought to mind:

The funny thing about Freud is that I can see how brilliant he is, but I'm not sure that I actually like the work, in the sense of wanting to have it on my wall. Not just this work, but his overall body of work.