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Kess van Dongen: Portrait of Luisa Casati (in the Quai, Venice), 1921.
Painting is the most beautiful of lie.
The secret of my success? You just paint women smaller and their jewellery bigger
For all those who look with their ears, here is a completely naked woman. You are prudish, but I
tell you that our sexes are organs that are as amusing as brains, and if the sex was found in the
face, in place of the nose (which could have happened), where would prudishness be then?
Shamelessness is really a virtue, like the lack of respect for many respectable things.
promovat s-a aflat si Man Ray, un fotograf aproape necunoscut atunci, ce i-a realizat un portret
celebru, n care aceast frumusee vanitoas, este nfiat cu ase ochi, spre delectarea ei.
Considerat odat cea mai bogat femeie a Italiei, marchiza i-a petrecut ultimii ani din via fr
nici un ban.
n lucrarea Debarcader la Veneia, contesa este pregatit de bal mascat cu ochii mrii de
mtrgun. Rochia translucid las s i se vad picioarele pn la genunchi. Privirea i este atras
de prul rou stins de pielea verzuie i de ochii mascai cu un machiaj verzui, bijuteriile sunt
prezente la mini, la picioare i la gt. Privirea marchizei e fix i goal concentrate nspre
interior i trdeaz o introspecie. Prul zburlit i d un aer de rtcire i rebeliune.
Pictorul a fost inspirat de celebra poz a lui Man Ray cu acelai model n piaa Vendome
din Paris, avnd columna construit de Napoleon n fundal. Farul veneian seaman foarte mult
cu silueta acestei columne.