The Blue Room - Suzanne Valadon
1923
This work is so important. Valadon started out as a model for other artists, and then decided that she had talent to step behind the easel herself. And her past experience is so indicative in this painting. Like, she’s fully clothed, relaxing, and looking away, completely obscuring the sexualizing gaze that Matisse, and Picasso, and Ingres, and countless other male artists put into their work.
“One day someone is going to hug you so tight, that all of your broken pieces will stick back together.”— Unknown
