“The Lone Traditional Easel Painter of the Art Deco Style”
Monday, February 5, 2018 at 9:00AM 
Tamara de Lempicka - Woman with Arms Crossed - Oil on canvas - 20 x 16 in. (50.8 x 40.6 cm) - Metropolitan Museum of Art, New YorkTrained at the height of post-Cubist experimentation, Tamara de Lempicka (1898-1980) was nevertheless a painter in the Art Deco style. Her faceted, geometric forms rendered in an Art Deco palette result in sublime portraits of figures that become objects. Her work is a unique synthesis of art and design created in a language that embodies all of the avant-garde movements of her day—along with her controversial bold sexuality.
“As a female painter representing the female nude, she subverted the conventional arrangement in which a naked woman is displayed exclusively for the viewing pleasure of the male onlooker. The result is a kind of egalitarian voyeurism.”
Whether one likes de Lempicka’s work or not, no one can deny that it is wholly her own. You can read (and see) more about her right here on What About Art?
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