2023-05-27 07:06:45
This is the first time in 60 years that a major museum has devoted a monographic exhibition to Suzanne Valadon.
Suzanne Valadon, whom the Pompidou-Metz center honors.
In a rich, multi-faceted exhibition. Which sheds light on the audacity of the muse who became a painter, on her taste for freedom, eclecticism, cross roads.
An exhibition entitled “A world of one’s own.” And which will be held in the Prefecture of Moselle until September 11. Before being deployed at the Nantes Museum of Arts, from October 27 to February 11, 2024. Then at the National Art Museum of Catalonia, in Barcelona, from April 18 to September 1, 2024.
Nudes, really daring
Why did Suzanne Valadon’s nudes remain? Their audacity, in any case, marked their era. “It seems to be the first woman to have painted a naked man from the front.“, recalls Chiara Parisi.
“The nude is political“, emphasizes Apolonia Sokol, who notes: “The painter, often a man, chose a model, stripped her of her name and transformed her into an allegory.“.
The young artist, regarding “The Blue Room”, talks regarding “nude dressed“. “There are nudes that do not carry eroticism. People can be dressed in their bodies, undressed in their clothes…“
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