niedziela, 22 maja 2011

Feminine Feminist – Tamara Łempicka

On the border of 19th /20th century among all decadent and suffragette movements Tamara Łempicka is a perfect example of a fully liberated woman. It can be said that she is a 'feminine feminist’, in terms of her artworks and lifestyle.



As she said ' Style is the best way to change, to become who you want to be' so she's done it. She created her own unique style in art - art deco, as well as in the lifestyle. Because she needed money to maintain the family she started to learn painting – that was the best option to ear money for someone with a high position in society. After she immigrated to France because of the political situation in Poland, and after a while she become a posh style icon. She became a 'new' woman: full of self-confidence, very determined and focused on success, each of these features can be noticed in her painting (Woman in White Gloves). Her self-portrait (Tamara in Green Bugatti) shows equality with man, because it was new for women to drive cars, what is more to smoke cigarillos. For the 'new' women it was not a problem to cut hair and remain sensationalist feminine in the same time.



Tamara as liberated women had a very dissolute lifestyle – two husbands and in the same time many affairs with men and women. She was fascinated with women body and wanted to represent them in her pictures in very seductive way. She said that each of her works shown the actual state of mind, but even in '30 her works become more depressive her neo-cubistic – art deco
style still remain tough.


Dowgiałło-Tyszka, J., (2005) Tamara Łempicka - The Series of the most famous Masters of Painting, Warsaw: De Agostini Poland sp. z o.o.

http://www.wysokieobcasy.pl/wysokie-obcasy/1,96856,1229545.html?as=2&startsz=x

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