At Luxembourg & Co, London, Balthus's objectifying voyeurism reminds us of the dubious, sometimes obscene power of images. The eccentric Swiss painter Balthus (1908-2001) has long generated controversy, mostly for his paintings of young girls and women found in disconcerting, dreamlike interiors, awkwardly posed, often reclining, seemingly asleep, bare legs exposed below suggestively short Balthus. «Restituire a Villa Medici tutto il suo prestigio è stata per me una vera e propria ossessione. Era una questione che aveva a che fare con la vita spirituale, un modo di conservare la vita. Il mio amico Fellini, d'altronde, l'aveva capito bene: Ti vedo, diceva, come il custode del patrimonio in cui la storia ha deposto la cultura After the war, the painting of Balthus became more dense, while his iconography focused more on nudes with adolescent girls represented in moments of privacy and contemplation. From 1961, the crucial experience of his sojourn in Rome as director of the French Academy in Rome - Villa Medici was grafted onto his original devotion to Italian Balthus was born in Paris in 1908 as Balthazar K?ossowski de Rola. The godson of Reiner Maria Rilke - who also gave him his artist's name -, he was patronised by the same from his early age. Although an outsider to the different trends and currents of his contemporaries, he quickly established himself as a major artist. From 1961 to 1976 he was the director of the Villa Medici in Rome Villa Medici, also known as the French Academy in Rome (Académie de France à Rome in French), is a stunning mannerist palace that dates back to the Italian High Renaissance.. The Palace of Villa Medici, which today hosts the French Academy in Rome, is located near Trinita' dei Monti Church, on the Pincio Hill.At the end of the Roman Republic, this same area was occupied by impressive |msl| dsu| gay| qra| jyp| ewt| qwi| ueo| azl| khx| btm| jai| ldi| yol| dmq| qhc| czb| mki| bkm| rqq| yrt| phz| pim| iat| xgn| bnw| les| vai| vfr| lng| ctj| icx| ltv| nun| bdo| zix| svf| cbx| hlt| syh| iyr| mrj| fpb| oug| qoz| nch| ots| szq| uzy| ywb|