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Artwork Description Flayed Nude, is my automatist rendering of the female nude as an object and as an idea flayed by time, in Canadian art. This painting was inspired by Marc-Aurèle de Foy Suzor-Coté’s nude, Symphonie Pathetique (1925). Suzor-Coté is an early Quebec modernist painter. He lived from 1869 to 1937 and is one of the forerunners of twentieth century French modernism in Quebec. My love for Symphonie Pathetique stems from the power it conveys in such natural suroundings. His use of light and dark tones create an atmospheric turbulence that metaphorically defines the emotive disposition of the nude, in reference to her surroundings.
In Suzor-Coté painting, one can feel the forces of nature through the different movements of form in contrast with its surroundings: the flowing hair and foreground vegetation against the movements of clouds, as the female nude sits devoid of time.
That was in the early twentieth century when the nude was becoming a subject of interest in Canadian art. About seventy years later (at the end of the last century), the female nude in Canadian art, sits on a stool in an open space of decadence. Her back still faces the viewer. She is devoid of emotions while being flayed by age and the values of time.
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