Femme en Extase (Woman in Ecstasy) (1911). Ferdinand Hodler (Swiss, 1853-1918). Oil on canvas laid d
Femme en Extase (Woman in Ecstasy) (1911). Ferdinand Hodler (Swiss, 1853-1918). Oil on canvas laid down on wood. Musées d'art et d'histoire de la Ville de Genève. Portrait of the Italian dancer Giulia Leonardi. With its vibrant color and brush work and its depiction of motion, Femme en Extase speaks of Hodler’s interest in movement and emotion and how the challenge of representing emotion in a static form and through dance. The swirl of the dancer’s movement may not look ecstatic, but when women at the turn of the century were tightly-bound and had very strict rules of decorum, here you have this beautiful Italian dancer moving with freedom, a liberated way of behaving at that time. -- source link
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