Tamara de Lempicka
Wonderful Female Painters
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Tamara de Lempicka (1898-1980)
The Sleeping Girl (1932)
Tamara de Lempicka painted modern women when modernity arrived.
She specialized in female portraits and nudes. She almost did not paint anything else. Her portraits had big dimensions, bright colors and plane forms. She painted stylized, graceful women, with a sculptural aspect. Powerful.
The languid pose of those women contrast with the machines or skyscrapers with which they appear in her works. They are considered as a clear example of independent and sexually liberated women.
When we talk about Art deco we think of Tamara’s work. She is the clearest referent of that aesthetical movement, a mixture of sensuality, luxury, and the modern design of the triumphant industrial society.
As in every Art deco painting, in her works there is geometrization (influence of Cubism), simplification, abstraction, brilliant colors and the drama of the chiaroscuro.
Modernity did not displace tradition, they shared spaces giving design and works a certain “classical” touch which results in beauty to which the artist added a touch of sexuality.
Tamara is a combination of astuteness, technical skills and great talent for marketing. In those times, not having been portrayed by her was a synonym of not belonging to the most exclusive circles of the privileged class. That is why she was very successful while she was alive, which has always been very hard for every artist, even more for women and dedicated to portrait painting, which is a valuable genre, but not the most popular one.
Recommended links:
Tamara de Lempicka and her Portraits.
The Touch of Tamara de Lempicka.
Wonderful Female Painters: Frida Kahlo.
Wonderful Female Painters: Leonora Carrington.
Wonderful Female Painters: Remedios Varo.
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