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Émilie Charmy (Paperback)
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Émilie Charmy (Paperback)
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Emilie Charmy (1878-1974) charted a remarkable course in the world
of French modern art in the first half of the twentieth century.
Her earliest works, executed around 1900, explored the legacy of
Impressionist and Post-Impressionist painting. An engagement with
the avant-garde circle of Fauve painters defined her art in the
years leading up to the First World War. In the ensuing interwar
period, Charmy found her mature style, characterized by optical
realism, an adherence to the traditional genres of portraiture, the
nude, landscape, and still life, and a modernist notion of direct,
vigorous paint application as a mark of artistic sincerity. This
attitude found its ultimate expression in numerous renderings of
the female nude, which, by virtue of Charmy's melding of ostensibly
feminine and masculine qualities, charm and seductiveness on the
one hand and power and firmness on the other, confounded prevailing
expectations about the nature of women's art. These images retain
their provocative force today.
This publication accompanies the first U.S. retrospective of the
painting of Emilie Charmy, which is organized by the Fralin Museum
of Art at the University of Virginia. Exhibition curator Matthew
Affron surveys key phases of Charmy's artistic career in relation
to major issues in modern French painting of her era. Sarah Betzer
examines two principal subjects of Charmy's early work, the nude
and the bourgeois interior, as evidence of an ambitious dialogue
with avant-garde precedent. Rita Felski considers Charmy in light
of recent feminist approaches to the study of the role women
creators played in defining modernism."
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