1957, Magda Cordell, Figure (Woman) -- Tate Britain (London)
From the museum label: Magda Cordell's Figure (Woman) breaks away from traditional representations of women in western art. When it was first exhibited, critics thought it embodied anxieties about nuclear war. More recently, her paintings have been interpreted as images of heroic femininity. In this reading, the distortions and textured surface signify the resilience of the human body in the face of injury and change.
1957, Magda Cordell, Figure (Woman) -- Tate Britain (London)
From the museum label: Magda Cordell's Figure (Woman) breaks away from traditional representations of women in western art. When it was first exhibited, critics thought it embodied anxieties about nuclear war. More recently, her paintings have been interpreted as images of heroic femininity. In this reading, the distortions and textured surface signify the resilience of the human body in the face of injury and change.