Purple Art

[09/28/2021]

“Bathers,” an exhibition by Louise Bonnet at Galerie Max Hetzler, Paris

The new series references a well-known trope in the history of art. Here, Bonnet’s treatment of the nude body owes much to Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640), with chromatic variations from pink to blue in the depictions of the flesh, which are very like his treatment of the nude, and compositions echoing such masterpieces as The […]

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Photos by Flo Kohl

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