HISTART 180C Chapter Notes - Chapter Sidlauskas: Femininity, Bourgeoisie, Old Age
25 Dec 2016
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It is commonly concurred that vuillard"s colorful, thick, rich, beautiful depictions of domestic interiors (replete with female subjects) are indicative of his respect and love for the world of women. This theory can be refuted by vuillard"s explicit, even aggressive, subversion of. And why have the theoretical and historical implications of these early efforts been neither fully acknowledged nor contextualized? . In addition to his paintings, vuillard"s temperament and personality were often attributed with more feminine qualities. Anxieties about female sexuality compelled this painter to negotiate an untested unidentified boundary between figuration and "abstraction. " . The feminine temperament: the feminine and the decorative were inextricably linked, accounts of vuillard always list his temperament as excitable, anxious and feminine and stress his emotional/economic reliance upon his mother. The decorative and the abstract: while some account note vuillard as feminine, others delegate him to level of considerably masculine achievement: pioneering abstract art, two camps of criticism for vuillard:
