A few months ago, as we were excitedly gearing up for our new exhibition, at the , our marketing team received an email from Facebook: The paintings we wanted to feature in a digital ad promoting the show.
The rejected Valadon picture presents the body in a modest pose — more workaday than titillating, as if we are glimpsing a model resting between sessions.
The retired adult entertainer from Massachusetts, who goes by the pseudonym S.
The theory of the male gaze refers to the way dominant forms of culture art, film, tv, media, ads, literature depict the world — especially women — from the perspective of a masculine, heterosexual point of view.
Suzanne Valadon brought a rarely seen female gaze to the depiction of women in the early 20th century.
My next image was of a photograph by Imogen Cunningham featuring herself in the background watching a famous nude model coming around a column or tree, with references to the Benton painting.