Marshall identified with «
Odalisque in Grisaille» by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres (1780 - 1867).
Cecily Brown (b. 1969, London) explicitly references the ubiquitous
odalisque in art.
The marvellous Ingres's
Odalisque in Grisaille — the poster - girl for the exhibition — is a reduced monochrome repetition of Ingres» 1814 masterpiece (painted with the aid of his workshop).
The long nose, the droopy eyes), Henri Matisse, Jean August Dominique Ingres (two female spines merge together to create
an Odalisque in another Isberg).
Given this, it is fascinating to hear the Chicago - based artist discuss «
Odalisque in Grisaille» by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres and other portraits by the French artist.
The portrait series «challenges the mythologized art historical role of the Venus and
the odalisque in Western painting, setting these tropes against the reality of one of the largest concentrations of sex workers in Africa.»
Across London, at Helly Nahmad in Cork Street, are a dozen beautifully hung and lit paintings by Matisse: vistas,
odalisques in flower - filled interiors, open windows looking out to the sea; all just as headily sunny and happy as Picasso at the Gagosian.
Not exact matches
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.
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.
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In the living room, dominated by a black steel sculpture by Brian Wall and Manuel Neri's marble 1989
Odalisque 1 on the floor, are a Louise Nevelson — esque bookshelf and steel pivot door to the kitchen that Francis Mill designed with Chris French.
In works such as Standing Odalisque Reflected in a Mirror and Interior, Flowers and Parakeets, Matisse celebrated pattern, form and colou
In works such as Standing
Odalisque Reflected
in a Mirror and Interior, Flowers and Parakeets, Matisse celebrated pattern, form and colou
in a Mirror and Interior, Flowers and Parakeets, Matisse celebrated pattern, form and colour.
Featured images: Milly, Tom Butler, Goauche on Albumen Print, 2014 Courtesy Charlie Smith, London Where Is It Now, Marie Navarre Film positive, book page, glass, steel, 1998 Courtesy Lisa Sette Gallery, Phoenix, Arizona Slip 17, Farrah Karapetian, unique photogram, 2014 Courtesy Von Lintel Gallery Alison Rossiter Nepera Chemical Company Carbon Velox, shipped from works November 8, 1897, processed 2014 (# 1), Courtesy Yossi Milo Gallery Broadway, New York City
in the Rain, Edward Anthony, Albumen Print Courtesy Metropolitan Museum of Art Church Gate, Sebastao Salgado, Silver Gelatin Print Courtesy Peter Fetterman Gallery Dinka Camp, Sebastian Salgado, Silver Gelatin Print Courtesy Peter Fetterman Gallery Fred W. McDarrah Robert Kennedy
in Slum Apartment, May 8, 1967 Vintage gelatin silver Courtesy Steven Kasher Gallery Reclining
Odalisque, Roger Fenton, Salt Print, 1858 Courtesy Metropolitan Museum of Art Der Fotograf, Willi Ruge, Silver Gelatin Print, 1931 Courtesy Metropolitan Museum of Art Kahn & Selesnick, The Reluctant Conscript Courtesy Kopeikin Gallery Eugène Pelletan by Nadar, Salted paper print from glass negative, 1855 Courtesy Metropolitan Museum of Art Sandro Miller, Richard Avedon / Ronald Fischer, Beekeeper, Davis, California, May 9 (1981), 2014, Courtesy Catherine Edelman Gallery Album d'Études - Poses, Louis Igout, Albumen Silver Prints from Glass Negatives Courtesy Metropolitan Museum of Art Steamboat Lake, CO7 Matthew Brandt Courtesy M+B Gallery
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).
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 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 space - age domestics or mother Africa soul searchers of her
odalisque photos are draped over sofas and swathed
in layers of contrasting «exotic» prints - a porn trope as much as it was a fact of 70s interior design.
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.&raqu
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.&raqu
in «Portrait of the Artist as a Young Pig.»
A Matisse from 1923,
Odalisque Lying With Magnolias, «was another painting he admired dramatically, at least partially because he met Matisse a couple of times when he was young,
in the 1930s,» Johnson says.
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 pose
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 pose
in reclining poses.
Visitors could curl up inside Jennifer Rubell's fibreglass sculpture Portrait of the Artist (2013; Stephen Friedman Gallery), modelled on the pregnant artist
in a classical «
odalisque» pose.
In the middle of the wall, a 2 of Hearts poses as a mocking rendition of a classical Turkish
odalisque.
Medieval manuscripts and Malevich's Black Square; a niggly grey and black Giacometti and Titian's Portrait of a Lady; Cy Twombly's scribbled writing and Ingres's La Grande
Odalisque, repainted
in shades of grey.
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 Matiss
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 Matiss
in the «Sunset Nudes» series, where the compositions, abstract imagery, and sanguine moods recall the
odalisques of Henri Matisse.
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.»
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.
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.
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.
Sylvia Sleigh's painting from 1972, is something of an anomaly
in Sadie Coles» summer survey of otherwise recent painting (to 15 Aug), but its hyper - intensification of Matisse's pattern and flatten approach to the
odalisque rather blows away the competition.
In the group of works entitled «Thinking of You» (2012), she depicts herself as a reclining, «
odalisque» type figure or as a meditative patient «on the couch».
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.
The Grande
Odalisque, 2008,
in parodying
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).
The pose of Mickalene Thomas» figure
in Tamika sur une chaise longue avec Monet references the common image of the
odalisque throughout art history.
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.
This is a representation of the universal desire of straight men that Robinson sees as an update of the 1814 «Grand
Odalisque» of Jean Ingres that hangs
in the Louvre.
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.
The 22 works on display
in these three galleries devoted to Latin America have their origins
in Botero's memories of his childhood and youth: family groups, traditional crafts and trades, dances and
odalisques, and also the violence that has shaken Colombia
in recent decades.
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.»
Canadian collector Robert Rennie, who has a private museum
in Vancouver, inquired about a work on paper by Kerry James Marshall depicting a nude black man
in an
odalisque pose.