The French Revolution had swept away the frivolous excesses of Rococo (see Dreams of Desire 64 (Boucher’s Odalisques) and two competing tendencies dominated French during the first half of the Nineteenth Century: the wild grandiose Romanticism of Delacroix and the somber, stately Neo-Classicism best personified by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres.
Ingres painted a number of important erotic paintings including the Valpinçon Bather of 1808, La Grande Odalisque of 1814 and L’Odalisque à l’esclave from 1839, however his most famous painting is The Turkish Bath from 1862-1863, completed when Ingres was 83 years old.
Portraying a group of nude women in a bath at a harem, The Turkish Bath is suffused with a lush hothouse atmosphere that heightens the erotic charge of the painting. Ingres erotic works would have a major impact upon the Modernists including Picasso and Matisse while the Post Modernist German artist Gerhard Richter would base his painting Bathers upon Ingres’s masterpiece.
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Gorgeous artwork Cake!
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Thank you Miss Heart, more art history with a slice of Cake!
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One could ask for nothing more
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Hehe you are far too kind Miss Heart.
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Oh, very wonderful post. And the connected post from Gerhard Richter, as well. I wonder if the Ingres paper is named after him. Have to check on that one. Thanks anyway for posting.
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Thank you for liking both the posts, I try to connect everything in Cakeland.
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Yes, very true, connection is the key.
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Well I see connections where there often isn’t any.
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Connections are very often being denied. Elusive minds of us human beings.
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Beautiful! So amazing that his level of skill stayed true in that grand old age. Love the grand odalisque especially.
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Thank you very much. I love the Turkish Bath, a fever dream of a painting. The Grand Odalisque is also very interesting because anatomists say that she has far too many vertebrae, but that is artistic license.
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Yes! A freakishly long torso. By about a foot. The Turkish Bath is quite titillating…. I’m not surprised you like it.
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You know I am always in the look out for striking images.
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Very good, Mr. Cake.
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Thank you Miss Dawn, I am glad that you enjoyed. The history of art Cake style!
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Again you are too kind dear Magician!
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