Random pic 11 June 2025
The Dancer, Alexander Sacharoff, 1909 (Tempera on paper on board) by Marianne Werefkin 1860-1938. Born Russian Empire (now Russian Federation), worked Russian Empire, Germany, Lithuania and Switzerland. https://flic.kr/p/2qZogmqSacharoff entranced audiences with groundbreaking free-movement performances, radically disrupting gender norms by performing in women's or gender-fluid outfits. Sacharoff also assumed an androgynous persona off-stage and in social life. Werefkin's portrait of the dancer in the role of Salome is a powerful celebration of the body, transgressing the sexualisation of the male gaze. Rejecting both traditional and modernist modes of bodily representation, the image of Sacharoff challenges turn-of-the-century societal norms and expectations.Fondazione Marianne Werefkin, Museo Comunale d'Arte Moderna, Ascona X88691From Expressionists: Kandinsky, Münter and the Blue Rider Tate Modern Exhibition [Text from the exhibition label]
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