Looking back · 4 artists

The nude, painted from the other side

What changes when the person who was looked at picks up the brush? Four painters who worked as models, mothers or patients before they worked as authors of the body, and painted it without flattery.

Modern · France

Suzanne Valadon

1865–1938 · From artists' model to unsentimental nude painter

NudesPost-ImpressionismBold outline

Modern · Germany

Paula Modersohn-Becker

1876–1907 · Painter of the pregnant self-portrait

ExpressionismSelf-portraitsThe body

Modern · Mexico

Frida Kahlo

1907–1954 · The body as landscape, altarpiece and evidence

SymbolismSelf-portraitsFolk sources

Baroque · Italy

Artemisia Gentileschi

1593–1656 · Baroque dramatist of judgement and revenge

TenebrismBiblicalHistory painting