Suzanne Valadon

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Suzanne Valadon
Valadon became the first woman painter admitted to the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts. She was also the mother of painter Maurice Utrillo. The subjects of her drawings and paintings included mostly female nudes, female portraits, still lifes, and landscapes. She never attended the academy and was never confined within a tradition. Valadon spent nearly 40 years of her life as an artist.
Just like all other artist that I compared. It has a common trait around the controversy of the female nude, bourgeois society found her works shocking, which her nude portrayed feminine strength and independence.
Symbolist and Post-Impressionist aesthetics are clearly seen within her work
She was considered a very focused, ambitious, rebellious, …show more content…

French painter Suzanne Valadon created powerful, unconventional, and sometimes controversial figure paintings, often of female nudes. admired her bold line drawings and paintings
Being a free spirit for her bold use of color.
Valadon primarily worked with oil paint, oil pencils, pastels, and red chalk open brushwork often featuring firm black lines to define and outline her figures.
She used hard black lines to emphasize the structure of the body. She also used firm lines in her nudes to emphasize the play of light on curves. the nudes Valadon paints veer far from the norms of this male-dominated genre; the paintings are interpreted in a much different way which could contradict or question the nature of the genre.
Valadon also emphasized her focus on the importance of composition of her portraits over painting expressive eyes.
Valadon has been considered transgressive in her position as a woman painting the nude female

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