Sentences with phrase «odalisque paintings»
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.
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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 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.»
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).
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.
Katherine Sherwood reimagines famous nude paintings by replacing the figures of white odalisques with disabled women of color.
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.
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.
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).
As such, his trademark BMW Art Car design includes trompe l'oeil images of Bronzino's 16th century painting «Portrait of Young Man» and Ingres's» 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.
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.
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.
«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.
Can there be a college survey of 19th - century painting which neglects to trace the transformation of The Valpinçon Bather of 1808 into the 1826 Bather of the Phillips Collection into the Odalisque
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.
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.
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).