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Around the world, Sexuality & Art

Les grandes baigneuses: a fragment

30 Jul 2015


baigneuses

In June, 2015, SPW posted a fragment of the  large painting by Paul Cézanne that is housed at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. This choice was not casual. We wanted indeed to call  attention to this magnificent art work of the early twenty century. More importantly however,  in an era where the visual  universes  of the internet and TV crowded with exposed beautiful bodies with the aim  mobilize immediate desires of all  sorts  Les Grandes Baigneuses  opens an   interstice of difference.

As insightfully observed by Jack Flam though naked they are not beauties and, most principally,  the whole composition is not about slick emotion.   This is so because  a sharp contrast exist “between the sensuality of the nominal subject and the austerity in the way the figures are treated in the landscape. ”

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