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TitleBlue Nude

Creator nameMatisse, Henri

Creator nationality/cultureFrench

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1907

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions92.1 × 140.4 cm

LocationBaltimore Museum of Art

https://collection.artbma.org/objects/37470/blue-nude

Accession number1950.228

SubjectsFemale nude in artFauvismPainting, French--20th centuryPost-impressionism (Art)--FranceAlgeria--CivilizationWomen, Black, in art

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Chapter I

Alexander Nehamas

Only a Promise of Happiness: The Place of Beauty in a World of Art

All beautiful things, the Greek philosopher Plotinus wrote in the third century A.D., produce “awe and a shock of delight, passionate longing, love and a shudder of rapture...

Author

Alexander Nehamas

PublisherPrinceton University Press

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https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00285.1

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Chapter subject tags:AestheticsPlatoSchopenhauer, Arthur, 1788-1860Modernism (Art)Greenberg, Clement, 1909-1994

Chapter 2. Affinities and Interface: Modern Portraits of Black Women in the Art of Matisse and the Harlem Renaissance

Denise Murrell

Posing Modernity: The Black Model from Manet and Matisse to Today

~If Frédéric Bazille’s Peonies paintings confirmed Manet’s foundational imagery of Laure as part of a free black presence in 1860s Paris, it was in the late work of Henri Matisse (1869–1954) that the legacy of Manet’s Laure...

Author

Denise Murrell

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.85-145

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00239.003

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Chapter subject tags:Women, Black, in artStereotypes (Social psychology) in artHarlem RenaissanceFauvismBaudelaire, Charles, 1821-1867Artists' models, Black

8. Naturalism Entrenched: Tradition, Consensus, Rupture

Richard Thomson

Description: Art of the Actual: Naturalism and Style in Early Third Republic France,...

Art of the Actual: Naturalism and Style in Early Third Republic France, 1880–1900

~Striving away from naturalism to achieve style, abandoning the republican consensus to appeal to an elite, denying the inclusive for the exclusive, was a strategy rather more insecure than is perhaps typically understood. There was an increasing lack of momentum in avant-garde...

Author

Richard Thomson

PublisherYale University Press

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https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00022.012

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Chapter subject tags:Nabis (Group of artists)France--History--Third Republic, 1870-1940Naturalism in art--France--19th centuryPainting, Modern--France--19th centuryMillet, Jean-François, 1814-1875Gogh, Vincent van, 1853-1890Monet, Claude, 1840-1926Painting, French--19th century

4. The New Negro

Hugh Honour

Description: The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume IV: From the American Revolution to...

The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume IV: From the American Revolution to World War I, Part 2: Black Models and White Myths

Despite the increasing internationalism of Western art in the last quarter of the nineteenth century—encouraged by the great international exhibitions—the differences...

Author

Hugh Honour

PublisherHarvard University Press

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https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00144.008

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Chapter subject tags:African Americans in artSocial RealismBlack people in art

3. Style

Donald E. Gordon

Expressionism: Art and Idea

In earlier chapters Expressionism was described as post-Nietzschean and post-Victorian; it now must be defined as Post-Impressionist as well. Expressionism comes not only after and out of Impressionism, but is also to some extent its countermovement...

Author

Donald E. Gordon

PublisherYale University Press

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https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00047.006

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Chapter subject tags:Blaue Reiter (Group of Artists)Schiele, Egon, 1890-1980Expressionism (Art)Wiener SecessionGalerie Die Brücke

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