What if painter Susanne Valladon invented the “female look?”

In 1909, Susan Valladon was the first woman to sign a naked man for the first time, the real courage of time. On the sound Adam and EvaThe artist of Paris appeared Eve, while Adam takes his lover’s peculiarities, painter Andre, twenty years younger. Until the fall of the 1920s fairs, the painting will be “censorship”, Adam’s gender is hidden modest (and opaque) of grape leaves. Very stunningA number of this picture as the famous Blue room (Which reunited the classic Form of the Interior is one of the retrospective stars that the center Pompidou donates this extraordinary modern artist (1).

Self-taught, Susanne Valladon must first be all-Montrartri (Renveir, Toulouse-Lauutreck) model before becoming a respected and successful artist. Falling into a pictorial power Susan Valladon will be one of the first to put a real “woman look” on his models (Famous female look, the opposition of the male veil, this male look visible in 1975 by American feminist Laura Moulwei, the editor’s post) His naked, a man, as a woman, he paints them with the same truth without eye shadows.

Final taboo

A naked representation among women’s artists is a large subject of the book DareKamill Morino (2). In 2009, the Artist was one of the commissioners They @ centerpompidou, The main exhibition, which was given a turning point, showing only women’s artists, including many “invisible”. It has been founded on his founding for ten years, Kamil Morina has worked on the light that the history of art (by humans) has set aside.

He is destroying. “We tend to believe that women did not take pictures of painters. But the naked naked by women is a history of deletion. In my book I invite you to change the focal lengths. Of course, women imported naked, but we only wanted to see them. ” In general, it is customary that the naked has long been banned at the Women’s Fine Arts School, it will be authorized only in turn xx^simmer century

“Nevertheless, many private academies were teaching women in Europe,” says Kamil Morinaus. And xvi^simmerXvii^simmer or xviii^simmer For centuries, artists have already confiscated the painting called “Big Genre”, these heroic or biblical naked. I think of Italian Baroque artist Lavinia Fontana, for example, or a famous Artemisy Gentile, which we often tend to set only through the rape of his suffering. ” The nude of the women’s painted. Final taboo therefore.

Assuming

For women’s artists, naked is obviously a problem, because it’s a body issue, their body, this body, which men want at all costs. Painted naked to female body so often represented in men in the erotic way (because, after all, two naked women dressed dressed Lunch on grass, manet?), but also to give a feminine to a feminine of sexuality. When Susan Valladon painted women with a toilet (Women in the bath1893) He strives to sink the famous motivation for Baignuse. Non-eroticism or eroticization with him, just everyday gestures. And in 1933, when American Alice, Alice, presents the male anatomy of artist Joe Gold, it is also without concessions or idealization.

The number of Numbers signed by women for Camille Morineou is also “Works-Manifestos”. He mentions: “It’s a naked modern indicator. In art history, men repeatedly claim that it is with the people we begin and set up to date. We have thus have fauviste nude (The joy of life, Matisse), cubic nude (Demoiselles d’alvignon, From picasso), bare Pointillist (In cleaning the naked sleep, From the Henri-Edmond Cross) … Therefore, women’s artists realized that it was necessary to “make the naked” to enter history. “

In the sculpture (we think about Camille Claudel) and in the photo (eg with Imogen Cunningham or Germaine Krull), women also take naked. “In the photo, women will quickly introduce nudity,” said Kamil Morine, both Lesbian and men’s nudity, photography, and photography has not yet entered the “noble” visual art field. In this discipline, fewer academic than painting, women are therefore feel freely feeling. Women with these naked bodies speak the photographers about power and sexuality. We are thinking about Sulfour Nan Goldin (Bobby masturbation1980) or experimental Orlan (The origin of war1989).

Quer look

Among women’s artists, naked speech speaks of intimacy, stalliness, sexuality, sensuality, motherhood, but also to class. Many of them represent love between women like Tamara de Lampucka and her famous picture Two friends (1924.

Camille Morineau mentions: “In the 1920s, some women’s painters liked great sexual freedom, showing their homosexuality or bisexuality. Some, like Claude Correspondent, who claims to be a neutral genre, the question in their work, the liquefies and performance of genres. Ideas that look hurried with our time. ” In short, pioneers.

(1) Susanne Vallado, a woman, is still in the center of Pompidi in Paris by May 26. centerpompidou.fr
(2) dark nude. Naked, represented by women’s artists, Camilor Morino, 240 pages, 39 euros, which will be published on February 26.
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