Was Balthus a map?
Posted: Wed Dec 18, 2024 9:52 am
Do you guys think Balthus was a map?
For those who may not know and be on the younger side Balthus was a Polish-French artist born in 1908 and died in 2001.
He is most known for his provocative and suggestive paintings of little girls such as Guitar Lesson, from 1934 Thérèse dreaming from 1938 and Girl and cat from 1937 which was one of a handful of his paintings that was used as the front cover art for a re-release of Nabokov's Lolita in the 1990s.
Balthus said he hated that people saw his girls in a sexual way and hated his art being used on the front cover of copies of Nabokov's novel but at the same time people who knew him say he was a very private person.
Some of his art also, depicts young girls fully nude and Thérèse Blanchard 1925-1950 one of the girls who modeled for him and he painted seems to pop up again and again in his work.
Also, back in 2013 a little over a decade after his death it was discovered that he had over 2,000 polaroid images mostly of a teenage girl named Anna Wahli, which i think is pretty damning.
What do you guys think was he one of us and very private about it like Nabokov and Carroll or just a product of his era?
For those who may not know and be on the younger side Balthus was a Polish-French artist born in 1908 and died in 2001.
He is most known for his provocative and suggestive paintings of little girls such as Guitar Lesson, from 1934 Thérèse dreaming from 1938 and Girl and cat from 1937 which was one of a handful of his paintings that was used as the front cover art for a re-release of Nabokov's Lolita in the 1990s.
Balthus said he hated that people saw his girls in a sexual way and hated his art being used on the front cover of copies of Nabokov's novel but at the same time people who knew him say he was a very private person.
Some of his art also, depicts young girls fully nude and Thérèse Blanchard 1925-1950 one of the girls who modeled for him and he painted seems to pop up again and again in his work.
Also, back in 2013 a little over a decade after his death it was discovered that he had over 2,000 polaroid images mostly of a teenage girl named Anna Wahli, which i think is pretty damning.
What do you guys think was he one of us and very private about it like Nabokov and Carroll or just a product of his era?