1929, Georges Rouault, Nu de dos -- Pompidou Center (Paris)
From the museum label: This powerful figure with thick black outlines and painted multiple times reveals Rouault's obsessive exploration of the human figure.
The body is a recurring theme in Georges Rouault's work, who preferred a serial approach. Like the bodies of the acrobats, these nudes constituted "a daily spectacle of forms that offer all the variety of life and express their strength of emotion by themselves. By superimposing oil-coated paper heightened with gouache, the artist achieved the transparency and luminosity of watercolour or stained glass.
1929, Georges Rouault, Nu de dos -- Pompidou Center (Paris)
From the museum label: This powerful figure with thick black outlines and painted multiple times reveals Rouault's obsessive exploration of the human figure.
The body is a recurring theme in Georges Rouault's work, who preferred a serial approach. Like the bodies of the acrobats, these nudes constituted "a daily spectacle of forms that offer all the variety of life and express their strength of emotion by themselves. By superimposing oil-coated paper heightened with gouache, the artist achieved the transparency and luminosity of watercolour or stained glass.