Sentences with phrase «female odalisque»

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Gender politics also come into play: Odalisque's Refusal shows a menacing male figure and a prone female.

In the front gallery, Thomas creates a minicatalog of inherited (and subverted) possibilities for expressing female identity, including an odalisque decidedly more modest and less youthful than Manet's, minus the African servant.

The long nose, the droopy eyes), Henri Matisse, Jean August Dominique Ingres (two female spines merge together to create an Odalisque in another Isberg).

In another odalisque, Petunia Pig is repurposed as a pugnacious putti confronting a Gaugin - like nude female in «Portrait of the Artist as a Young Pig.»

In his final years, Wesselmann returned to the female form in the «Sunset Nudes» series, where the compositions, abstract imagery, and sanguine moods recall the odalisques of Henri Matisse.

It's instructive to compare the brittle landscapes of the American Impressionist Childe Hassam to monumental works by van Gogh and Cezanne; or Matisse's restless odalisque, «Blue Nude,» to a static female portrait by the celebrated American academician Robert Henri.

Los Angeles - based artist Amy Bessone mines the cultural representation of female form in history, from Greco - Roman marble nudes and the odalisques of high modernism to contemporary thrift - store objects.

Each prefabricated female mannequin is mounted on her side in an odalisque position and has been retooled to function as a nutcracker.

Odalisque translates to female slave or a woman slave in a harem.

To create the poster, the artists tallied the number of female and male representations in the Metropolitan Museum's Modern Art collection and combined the results with an appropriated image of Jean - Auguste - Dominique Ingre's La Grande Odalisque (1814).

Jonathan Jones: From the ravishing Venus of Urbino, past Ingres's sensual Odalisque, to the feminist riposte of the Guerrilla Girls, the female nude has inspired, enraptured and enraged

In his most famous series, Great American Nude, Wesselmann takes the classical nudes of Titian and the modern odalisques of Henri Matisse and Édouard Manet and lends the female form his own treatment.