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Tamara De Lempicka
What you can see is a portrait of a young and blond girl. She’s wearing a green and garish sleeveless dress, her hands are covered by a pair of soft and white gloves and with her right hand she’s reclining towards her face the prominent white hat that she has on her head, creating a shadow over her eyes.
Her gaze is turned towards right. She looks like she is sitting on a stool because her body is standing but not completely and anyway her legs from above the knees down are cut in the representation. Under her beautiful dress, you can glimpse some erotic details, her navel and the nipples of her breast.
The figure takes all the space on the vertical painting, the lines are crisply defined, the few colours used are bright and vivid, while the background is grey and undefined. The artwork is definitively oil painted and, despite its small dimensions (about 60×45 cm), it transmits a strong impact on the viewer.
Immediately, you would like to know who is that girl and what she is doing so dressed up and why she conveys a sort of melancholy. Did the artist represent someone she knew or a girl she just noticed in a street? Or, more, she represented her mood through this character?
This piece makes me feel curious and fascinated, it seems very simple but in the meantime it’s impressive and evocative. It takes you to a Belle Epoque atmosphere, with women integrated in the society, but still considered like an object of the men desire. Independence and weakness intertwined in the same person, gaudy colours contrasting with the delicacy of the gestures, like the left wrist softly laid on the leg with the fingers raised as they are starting playing on a piano. The eyes are open and addressed towards someone, somewhere, but they remain shy and secluded in the shadow of the hat.
This renowned portrait preserved and exhibited at the Pompidou museum in Paris was depicted by Tamara De Lempicka, a very complex and contrasted artist of the 20th century.
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Adjectives: Same as before; don’t need AND.
Also, it is more natural to say garnish green …. This will help you with adjective order: https://www.gingersoftware.com/content/grammar-rules/adjectives/order-of-adjectives/
*Grammatically this isn’t a question: either add the word ‘perhaps’ or add the aux to make it a question
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