Sentences with phrase «like odalisque»

What is most striking about her full length portrait of another male critic, John Perrault, is not only that he poses nude, like an odalisque, but that she doesn't disguise the revulsion she feels at the sight of his hirsute body.

The Fauve's later nudes, like Odalisque with a Tambourine,1925 - 26, held in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, is especially prescient in the context of Diebenkorn's figures and draws a distinct visual link between the two artists.

Not exact matches

Often depicting African - American women in colorful interiors, they take inspiration from the past - the sensuous odalisques of Matisse and Ingres - while also pushing portraiture forward alongside artists like Chris Ofili, Marilyn Minter, and Kehinde Wiley.

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.»

And she has fun with those settings, even before gracing them with her sultry odalisques, in works like «Interior: Yellow Couch, Blue Foyer, and Fireplace» or «Landscape With Camouflage.»

Upon further investigation the viewer discovers tiny obscure writing, miniature cartoon - like doodles, and his charming «Odalisque» drawing is a mirror - image rendering of Jean Auguste - Dominique Ingres «painting with the same title.