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26 gru 2023 · Below are stories of six remarkable women who shaped modernity and its art. 1. Alma Mahler (1879-1964): Austria’s Famous Model. Bride of the Wind by Oskar Kokoschka, 1914, via Arthive. Alma Mahler, once known as The Most Beautiful Girl in Vienna, was a composer, yet she received much more fame for her tumultuous personal life than for her songs.
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The generous gift of the Rachel Lambert Mellon Collection of Jean Schlumberger to the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts offers an exceptional opportunity to display the creations of one of the most talented fashion designers of the 20th century.
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These are the uneasy muses of Miss Van, the French-born street-artist-turned-fine-art-painter who has spent the last 30 years or so amid an evolving stream of these woman, watching them grow from innocent yet alluring, chubby doll babies into case-hardened warrior babes even a band of fur-bearing fox-snakes couldn’t faze.
Van Gogh found his models among the women who worked in the port city’s cafés. They were often obliged to earn extra money as prostitutes, and this probably was the case for the woman portrayed here. Van Gogh was impressed with these ‘common’ women.
Miss Van's art has been in constant evolution for 30 years, from the young ladies that invaded the walls and streets of Europe with raw illustrative brush strokes in the 90s to the Surrealist exquisite muses living in oil-painted canvases today.