From June 5th to September 6th of 2010, the Vancouver Art Gallery hosted an art exhibition titled, “The Modern Woman”. The first ever to travel from the Museé d’Orsay, the exhibition featured over 100 works from renowned 19th century French artists, such as Monet, Manet, Degas, Daumier, Rodin, Toulouse-Laturec, Renoir, Gaugian and others.
What is the relationship between power and the act of looking or being looked at? Who has the right to look and how is looking legitimated and culturally coded? And crucially for us, how does…the art of looking at art…relate to conditions of looking in life for men and women? – Tamar Garb
The nude is not the same as the undressed, and nothing is less nude than a woman emerging from a pair of drawers or one who has just taken off her chemise. The nude has modesty only if it is not a transitory state. It hides nothing because there is nothing to hide… – Camille Lemonnier