Another female painter. Virginie Demont-Breton. Regrettably many of these reproductions are in monochrome. They fall into the cute category with several being made into postcards. This raises the question: why are these cute? Where is the line between cute and problematic?
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There is not a great deal known about Georges Sauveur Maury. He was born in France in 1872 and became known as an orientalist painter. Perhaps he died on one of his journeys overseas?
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Not exactly French, but a French speaking Swiss who married a French woman and moved to Paris. François Barraud. I’ve included the two paintings because he seems to have used the same young model in both.
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These are a little too coy, prurient, some would say kitsch, but ours is not to judge, merely to catalogue. Paul Émile Chabas.
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This one is a rarity. It’s of Russian royalty, the czarina Elizaveta Petrovna, the future empress, depicted as Venus. It’s by Louis Caravaque, a French painter who travelled to the Russian court.
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Just stumbled across this. Whilst Australia goes into a flurry of moral panic over the work of Bill Henson, photographer Jock Sturges goes from strength to strength. Now he has published a large, limited edition portfolio called Mit Jock Sturges Familär…. The basic edition
Okay, last post on sculpture, although I’m certain I’ll discover more when I go to Paris. Indeed, I was watching Woody Allen’s Midnight in Paris …and there was a statue of naked girl in a park I hadn’t seen before, so I’m sure I’ll encounter
If only I had thought of this earlier, it might have made things clearer – but I didn’t, so here goes…
The word sexualisation describes a process whereby something that is not ordinarily considered to have a sexual meaning is given a sexual meaning. Regrettably…
We’re getting to the end of our little foray into French sculpture. I’m sure there’s more but I want to move on. This one is in the Musée D’Orsay – The Cyclist by Aristide Maillol.
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Bliss is a young hippie girl with an extraordinary, untamed mind: a guitar prodigy, a synesthete, but can she tame her wild talent?
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