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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
LauraJG@deacon.social ("Laura G, Sassy 70’s") wrote:
Your art history post for today: by Tamara de Lempicka (1898-1980), Woman in a Yellow Dress (Femme à la robe jaune), 1929, oil on canvas, 80 by 120 cm (31 ½ by 47 ¼ inches), photo: Sotheby’s London, 27 June 2023. #arthistory #painting #oilpainting #womenartists #womanartist
From the catalogue note: “Femme à la robe jaune presents a vision of a starkly modern and self-possessed woman. Much like Lempicka herself… the sitter in the present work exudes a decided sense of independence, even defiance, as her sculpted figure takes up the whole of the composition… Lempicka’s woman in gold is a force to be reckoned with—elegant, implacable, doubtless…
Germain Bazin states: 'The linea serpentine, to sixteenth-century Italian theorists the supreme expression of beauty, animates Tamara’s figures: with bodies twisting from top to toe they touch the edge of the painted surface at various points… A painting by Tamara is generally presented like a bas-relief with a single, powerful figure filling the whole canvas – to the extent quite often that the head is cut off by the upper edge'”
