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Research Article
Suzanne Valadon’s The Blue Room Model as a Depiction of a Modern Venus: Visual Analysis and Case-Comparison with the Effigy of the Venus of Brassempouy
Robmarie Lopez*
Issue:
Volume 10, Issue 2, June 2025
Pages:
35-41
Received:
7 March 2025
Accepted:
21 March 2025
Published:
10 April 2025
Abstract: Suzanne Valadon’s The Blue Room (1923) is instantly transfixing. A woman lounges on a bed in a camisole and striped slacks. Her gaze does not acknowledge the audience, but fixates elsewhere, perhaps authentically lost in thought, perhaps in performative absorption. Valadon was one of the few women artists who emerged during the Fauve period of modern French painting. Her depictions of the female nude were groundbreaking for their so-called female perspective. While the woman in The Blue Room is a non-nude, her pose is evocative of Titian’s Venus and Cupid with the Organ Player and, by association, with Manet’s Olympia. In contrast to these representations, who portray women in some type of performative role, Valadon’s “Blue Room Venus” seems to be decontextualized from her role as social being. Symbolic details such as a stack of books in the corner and kanji-like swirls abstractly floating in the background seem suggestive of an inner life—a being unconcerned with performing femininity while still acknowledging her womanhood through Valadon’s gaze. In this paper, it is argued that Valadon’s model challenges Renaissance ideals of femininity, typically allegorized through the mythical Venus, embracing primitive values of authenticity. Thus, artistic context and cloisonnist style suggest that the “Venus” in Valadon’s The Blue Room is more prehistoric than mythical. To assess this view, a visual analysis of Valadon’s work was completed within a compare-contrast model based on the Venus of Brassempouy, a prehistoric effigy discovered near Aquitaine, France, during the Fin de Siècle. An analysis of the Brassempouy effigy as presented by Dixson and Dixson (2011) supports the idea of Valadon’s “Blue Room Venus” as similar in body type to the Brassempouy effigy, perhaps alluding to similar themes.
Abstract: Suzanne Valadon’s The Blue Room (1923) is instantly transfixing. A woman lounges on a bed in a camisole and striped slacks. Her gaze does not acknowledge the audience, but fixates elsewhere, perhaps authentically lost in thought, perhaps in performative absorption. Valadon was one of the few women artists who emerged during the Fauve period of mode...
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Research Article
Research on the Function of Art Education for Children in Art Museums
Issue:
Volume 10, Issue 2, June 2025
Pages:
42-46
Received:
11 March 2025
Accepted:
23 April 2025
Published:
22 May 2025
DOI:
10.11648/j.ajad.20251002.13
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Abstract: Art museums have the functions of collection, exhibition, and education. Art museums create the atmosphere and context of art cultivation through concrete visual objects, allowing children to experience art education that is extremely different from school education. This kind of art education is not a system of knowledge and human civilization that is structured by a system of linguistic symbols and inherited by books and languages, but rather, it is a way of perceiving art based on the great heritage of humanity and works of art. In this way, it provides not only the learning and study of the knowledge system, but also, and more importantly, the development of creativity, imagination, aesthetic sensibility.
Abstract: Art museums have the functions of collection, exhibition, and education. Art museums create the atmosphere and context of art cultivation through concrete visual objects, allowing children to experience art education that is extremely different from school education. This kind of art education is not a system of knowledge and human civilization tha...
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Research Article
Investigation of Intrusive Rocks in the Çambaşı Plateau and Bektaşyayla Region Located South of Ordu Using 40Ar/39Ar Petrology and Geothermochronology Methods
Gülşah Levent*,
Durmuş Boztuğ
Issue:
Volume 10, Issue 2, June 2025
Pages:
47-60
Received:
13 March 2025
Accepted:
28 March 2025
Published:
22 May 2025
DOI:
10.11648/j.ajad.20251002.14
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Abstract: This research focuses on elucidating the tectonic processes in the Eastern Pontides by investigating the Çambaşı Quartz Syenite and Bektaş Yaylası Quartz Monzonite, situated south of Ordu province in northeastern Turkey. To achieve this, mineralogical and petrographic characteristics of the acidic granitoids were analyzed alongside 40Ar/39Ar biotite age dating and comprehensive whole-rock and mineral geochemical analyses. Samples collected from Bektaş Yaylası Quartz Monzodiorite and Çambaşı Quartz Syenite underwent crushing, grinding, sieving, and washing to prepare for age determination. The biotite minerals were embedded in epoxy, polished, and examined. After processing the rock sample, geochemical analyses, including trace and rare earth element studies, were carried out at Actlabs laboratory in Canada. The ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar biotite dating yielded ages ranging from 44.50 ± 0.35 million years to 81.12 ± 0.25 million years, indicating that these intrusions formed during the Late Cretaceous and Late Paleocene periods. Geochemical data classify the acidic intrusive rocks as calc-alkaline, high-potassium calc-alkaline, and shoshonitic. Integrating geochronological and geochemical evidence, the study suggests that the Çambaşı Quartz Syenite and Bektaş Yaylası Quartz Monzonite originated from the partial melting of the mafic lower crust, driven by continental collision. These results highlight the crucial role of continental collision in the geodynamic evolution of the Eastern Pontides.. This study on the geochronology and geochemistry of the Çambaşı Quartz Syenite and Bektaş Yaylası Quartz Monzonite offers valuable insights into the tectonic processes of the Eastern Pontides. The results demonstrate that the region’s geodynamic evolution is characterized by a complex and multi-phase history.
Abstract: This research focuses on elucidating the tectonic processes in the Eastern Pontides by investigating the Çambaşı Quartz Syenite and Bektaş Yaylası Quartz Monzonite, situated south of Ordu province in northeastern Turkey. To achieve this, mineralogical and petrographic characteristics of the acidic granitoids were analyzed alongside 40Ar/39Ar biotit...
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