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Painting
Title: Nu Au Foulard 1982
Balthus (Balthazar Klossowski de Rola)
Famous
French artists - Famous
Nude Paintings - 20th Century painter
About the Nude Girl Painting
Balthus is most famous for portraying naked young girls in everyday settings.
Here, the subject looks to be getting out of the shower and drying herself off
with the towel that she is holding. Balthus was quoted as saying..
One of
my art's main motifs is the mirror, invested with the mark of vanity as well as
the highest ascendancy. To me, it often gives an echo of the spirit's profoundest
varieties, in the style of Plato, whom I often read at Rossiniere. That's why
my young girls often hold them, not only to look at themselves, which would be
a mere sign of frivolity and my young girls are nor shameless Lolitas but to plumb
the furthest depths of their underlying beings. Thus my paintings have many layers
of meaning, vanishings in the canvas, so to speak, that duplicate its story, confessing
their unfathomability. Balthus
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