Sentences with word «odalisque»

In her large - scale photographs that conjure up the reclining odalisques of nineteenth - century Orientalist paintings, Essaydi empowers her figures with defiant gazes that resist voyeurism and stereotypes of exoticism.

Cecily Brown (b. 1969, London) explicitly references the ubiquitous odalisque in art.

For this installment of «Image Universe,» we take Ingres» La Grande Odalisque as our starting point to think about the trope of the reclining nude and the images that have cemented, circumvented, and subverted this tradition of visualizing desire.

Katherine Sherwood reimagines famous nude paintings by replacing the figures of white odalisques with disabled women of color.

Referring to Manet's Olympia and Ingres» La Grand Odalisque, he questions the ideals of beauty through the European painting and the museums that feature it.

Tonight at Christie's sale of 19th - and 20th - century works from the collection of the late Peggy and David Rockefeller, Henri Matisse's Odalisque couchée aux magnolias (1923) went for $ 80.8 million, a record for a work by the artist at auction.

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.

Sepia Odalisque III, 1998 Artist: Eldzier Cortor 20 3/16 x 13 3/4 inches Etching and aquatint on cream wove paper; Edition: A / P, signed, titled and numbered

In her recent solo exhibition at Mary Mary in Glasgow, Smith presented her series of recurring broomstick characters, who appear under different guises and filters — rendered in Benday Dots, as Warhol's Double Elvis (1963), or in a sensual odalisque pose and psychedelic skin.

Although her paintings often reference the familiar compositional arrangements of odalisque paintings, Thomas imbues her subjects with an agency and action seldom seen in the canon of figurative painting.

The showstopper is Mickalene Thomas's video installation of the artist sprawled naked like some black Ingres Odalisque accompanied by Eartha Kitt, talking about how easy it is to find a man to lie down with but how hard to find one to lift you up.

And a Matisse reclining nude, called «Odalisque Lying with Magnolias,» could reach $ 90 million.

Rather, one gets the sense, from these paintings, that Heidkamp let his hand follow his imagination, rendering a lone figure who has lost his shadow, a brushy odalisque at rest on the shore, or a set of abstract marks that telegraph a bright pink sunset.

In works such as Standing Odalisque Reflected in a Mirror and Interior, Flowers and Parakeets, Matisse celebrated pattern, form and colour.

Collecting Matisse and Modern Masters includes iconic paintings by Matisse such as Standing Odalisque Reflected in a Mirror (1923), Interior, Flowers and Parakeets (1924), Large Reclining Nude (1935), and Striped Robe, Fruit, and Anemones (1940).

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

As she looks over her shoulder, at the viewer, in the manner of a classical odalisque, the screen reads: «I see the way you look at me, but I'm not here for you.»

Vicky may initially present herself as mere odalisque to be molded and shaped by the Great Man.

At the end of his life — Renoir lived to be 78, dying in 1919 — he befriended Matisse and inspired his younger colleague's paintings of odalisques executed during the 1920s.

Top on their list, she said, is a sensual 1923 Matisse canvas, «Odalisque couchee aux magnolias.»

Museum poster is in part shocking because of its juxtaposition of the eroticized female odalisque body, and the large, snarling gorilla head.

Right: Jesse Mockrin, The Dark - Haired Odalisque, 2016.

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.

Imagine portraits that combine inspiration from Blaxploitation films, Jean - Auguste - Dominique Ingres «Une Odalisque» (1814), Andy Warhol's silk screen portraits, and Lil» Kim's album covers.

In this stunning piece she matches odalisques — the Orientalist 19th - century portraits of elegantly contorted harem concubines — with portraits she had taken of her friends and lovers in reclining poses.

Here, the artist explores the interplay of race, female beauty and identity, punctuated by the impeccable use of patterns, color and textures — all centered on a modern - day odalisque.

Marietta, or Roman Odalisque, 1843 by Jean - Baptiste - Camille Corot, oil on paper mounted on canvas, 11 1/2 x 17 ⅖ inches Le Petit Palais

In the middle of the wall, a 2 of Hearts poses as a mocking rendition of a classical Turkish odalisque.

Marsicano's figures of the 1960s suggest Ingres's odalisques repainted by Willem de Kooning, except that Marsicano's figures read not as presences but absences.

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.»

Manet's Olympia, the notorious painting of an insouciant odalisque that turned Titian's Venus of Urbino into a courtesan and her doggie into a black cat, gets a workout (and some scratch marks) in David Humphrey's current show at Fredericks & Freiser.

They sit comfortably together with one, presumably a woman by the blue necklace that she wears, casually relaxing into the other's arms while her legs are propped up on a trunk of sorts in the likeness of an 18th - century odalisque painting.

Reclining figures bear the smalls of their backs as Ingres - inspired odalisques.

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.

They are contrasted with the mature odalisques of council of voices speaks, reclining figures that, however languid they may appear, are reportedly modeled on the Parthenon's east pediment sculpture of the Three Fates, thus illustrating the council's function as female oracles who mediate between earthly and heavenly realms and oversee the saplings in H.E.Z.

During the 19th century, odalisques became common fantasy figures in the artistic movement known as Orientalism, being featured in many erotic paintings from that era.

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

They feature sexy brown - skinned odalisques, sometimes in the classic poses of a reclining nude, other times sitting brashly wide - legged, all bare thighs, supple flesh and big, curly hair against a collage of colour and exotic prints.

A profound misogynist, Conner has created here a gruesome odalisque starring in her own Thea ^ tre du Grand Guignol.

«Land's End Odalisque» is another dead on painting, a Hamptons beach scene of a 20 - something blond girl with a «what are we doing later» smile and a coy hat.

One three - part painting, «Vigil For A Horseman» (2017) turns the subjects into male odalisques, lounging seductively on a vertically striped foreground.

As if in perverse celebration of Lizzie Fitch and Ryan Trecartin's near decade and a half of collaboration, three monstrously contorted epicene odalisque sculptures, painted in opalescent jewel tones, occupied the reception area of their first solo exhibition at Regen Projects.

Graphic portals and archways reveal slow moving tide pools or languid, floating odalisques.

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.

Kewley uses the collage as a reference to the language of painting; the works in this show are titled Odalisque (After Matisse), and Young Italian Woman with Distaff (After Corot).

The lovely odalisques, resplendent in their powerful sexuality and addressing a history of poses popular with French artists from Manet to Matisse, also celebrate the woman from a woman's perspective.

Zvonar references paintings like Ingres Grande Odalisque to draw parallels between media of the past and the media we consume today, bringing into question historical canons to address cultural constrictions of power.