Katherine Sherwood reimagines famous nude paintings by replacing the figures of white
odalisques with disabled women of color.
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
And a Matisse reclining nude, called «
Odalisque Lying
with Magnolias,» could reach $ 90 million.
(Top) 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.
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 poses.
The art critic reclines nude as an
odalisque: brazen pose, but he still has to keep an impressively stern eye on the viewer just to compete
with his own mighty genitalia.
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.&ra
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.&ra
with her sultry
odalisques, in works like «Interior: Yellow Couch, Blue Foyer, and Fireplace» or «Landscape
With Camouflage.&ra
With Camouflage.»
JSI think Mickalene Thomas's work shares important elements
with Wesselmann's, the collage aesthetic and the
odalisque.
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).
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.
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).
«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.
Marshall identified
with «
Odalisque in Grisaille» by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres (1780 - 1867).
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.
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.