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Matinée de Septembre (English: September Morn) is a controversial oil painting on canvas completed in 1911 by the French artist Paul Émile Chabas.Painted over several summers, it depicts a nude girl or young woman standing in the shallow water of a lake, prominently lit by the morning sun.
Les Grandes Baigneuses, or The Large Bathers, is a painting by Pierre-Auguste Renoir made between 1884 and 1887. The painting is in the Philadelphia Museum of Art, in Philadelphia. [1] [2] The painting depicts a scene of nude women bathing. In the foreground, two women are seated beside the water, and a third is standing in the water near them.
In the 19th century, the female nude abounds more than ever—especially in the second half of the century—more than in any other period in the history of art. However, the female role changes to become a mere object of sexual desire, in a process of dehumanization of the female figure, subjected to the dictates of a predominantly macho society.
The portrait of the woman was lost when Picasso painted over it, probably a few months afterward, in 1901 to depict his sculptor friend Mateu Fernández de Soto sitting at a table in hues of blues ...
Vase paintings and sculptures of nude women were also made, exhibiting the female counterpart to heroic nudity in men. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] One example of such an artwork is the sculpture Aphrodite of Knidos by Praxiteles of Athens from the fourth century B.C. [ 4 ]
Women Friends (1916-1917) is a painting by Austrian symbolist painter Gustav Klimt. Alternatively known as The Friends , or Girlfriends II ( Freundinnen II ), among others, the work was destroyed by fire in 1945 alongside several other of Klimt's paintings in the burning of Schloss Immendorf .
The Bar (painting) A Bar at the Folies-Bergère; The Bathers (Renoir) Bathers with a Turtle; The Bathers (Cézanne) Beatrice Hastings in Front of a Door; The Beauty; Beijing 2008 (painting) The Beloved (Rossetti) Berlin Street Scene; Bertha Wegmann Painting a Portrait; Bharat Mata (painting) The Black Brunswicker; Black Woman with Child
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