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Woman Showing Her Portrait is a c.1790 genre painting by the French artist Louis-Léopold Boilly. [1] Considerable debate has taken place around the exact meaning of the work. [ 2 ] A young woman displays her portrait for inspection by a group, traditionally believed to be family members although there is no evidence to support that.
The vagina represents a powerful symbol as the yoni in Hindu thought. Pictured is a stone yoni found in Cát Tiên sanctuary, Lam Dong, Vietnam.. Various perceptions of the vagina have existed throughout history, including the belief that it is the center of sexual desire, a metaphor for life via birth, inferior to the penis, visually unappealing, inherently unpleasant to smell, or otherwise ...
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 ]
In the early years of the seventeenth century, Pierre de Bourdeille, seigneur de Brantôme told a story about a group of people who went to view the painting. He described the painting as showing "fair naked ladies" together in a bath, and adds that they "touch, and feel, and handle, and stroke, one the other, and intertwine and fondle with each other."
Olympia is an 1863 oil painting by Édouard Manet, depicting a nude white woman ("Olympia") lying on a bed being attended to by a black maid. The French government acquired the painting in 1890 after a public subscription organized by Claude Monet. The painting is now in the Musée d'Orsay, Paris.
In The Eternal Feminine, by contrast, Cézanne places the woman in the center of the canvas, and she displays her body with no shame, unlike the woman in Courbet's painting, who holds a drape to partially cover her body. Cézanne's painting nonetheless resembles Courbet's composition in dividing the figures into a left and right group.
The woman's coarse features are painted with thick dabs of impasto. The seeds on the crust of the bread, as well as the crust itself, along with the plaited handles of the bread basket, are rendered with pointillé dots. Soft parts of the bread are rendered with thin swirls of paint, with dabs of ochre used to show the rough edges of broken ...
A 1961 reproduction of the painting, showing the dominance of grays. September Morn depicts, from an oblique point of view, a naked blonde girl or young woman standing ankle-deep in the water near the shoreline of a tranquil lake surrounded by hills. The figure is backlit by the morning sun, but fully visible, if a little darker than her ...