The Gift, Inspired by de Lempicka by k Madison Moore

The Gift - After Tamara de Lempicka

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14 x 14 Oil on Canvas

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The Gift

Is the gift from a secret admirer from across the room or...does

she know him?... or are they strangers? Is he trying to win her over with

"The Gift" or is it an  apology? Lovers or Strangers? I'll leave it up to you.

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Inspired by Tamara de Lempicka

The woman in yellow, the man in blue, these are two new painting

of Tamara de Lempicka's that I have just come across and have

never seen before. I had the idea for this painting immediately.

I just imagined him looking at her from across the room and

wanted him to reflect in the mirror behind her so you could see

where her focus is. Of course I had to add some of Tamara's beautiful

Calli lilies from another of her paintings.

Tamara de Lempicka (Łempicka) (May 16, 1898–March 18, 1980), born Maria Górska in Warsaw, in partitioned Poland.was a Polish Art Deco painter and "the first woman artist to be a glamour star."

In Paris, the Lempickas lived for a while from the sale of family jewels. Tadeusz proved unwilling or unable to find suitable work, which added to the domestic strain, while Maria gave birth to Kizette de Lempicka.

Her distinctive and bold artistic style developed quickly (influenced by what Lhote sometimes referred to as "soft cubism" and by Denis'"synthetic cubism") and epitomized the cool yet sensual side of the Art Deco movement. For her, Picasso "embodied the novelty of destruction" She thought that many of the Impressionist drew badly and employed "dirty" colors. De Lempicka's technique would be novel, clean, precise, and elegant.De Lempicka continued both her heavy workload and her frenetic social life through the next decade.

The Great Depression had little effect on her; in the early 1930s she was painting King  Alfonso XIII of Spain and Queen Elizabeth of Greese. Museums began to collect her works. In 1933 she traveled to Chicago where she worked with  Georgia O'Keefe, Santiago Martinez Delgado and Willem de Kooningand. Her social position was cemented when she married her lover, Baron Kuffner, in 1933 (his wife had died the year before). The Baron took her out of her quasi-bohemian life and finally secured her place in high society again, with a title to boot. She repaid him by convincing him to sell many of his estates in Eastern Europe and move his money to Switzerland. She saw the coming of World War II from a long way off, much sooner than most of her contemporaries. She did make a few concessions to the changing times as the decade passed; her art featured a few refugees and common people, and even a Christian saint or two, as well as the usual aristocrats and cold nudes.

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