Alfred Stevens: The Man Who Painted Women (2009)

Name: Alfred Stevens: The Man Who Painted Women
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2018-10-30T21:27:59+01:00
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Documentary | 64 minutes

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Genre: Documentary

Duration: 64 minuten

Alternative titles: Alfred Stevens, l’Homme Qui Peignait la Femme / Alfred Stevens: De Man Die de Vrouw Schilderde

Country: Belgium / Netherlands

Directed by: Françoise Levie

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Alfred Stevens: The Man Who Painted Women plot

The Flemish painter Alfred Stevens was a true innovator. Unlike his predecessors, he did not portray mythical or Biblical characters, but chic, fashionably dressed women from his own time and environment. The fame did not last long, however, because his successors, the Impressionists, turned out to be even greater innovators. His eternal model was the fashionable woman, dressed in velvet, satin or silk. The costumes that women wear in Steven's paintings faithfully document the fashion of the Second French Empire. But they also radiate the pure joy of painting from a painter who translated the colors and textures of clothing into paint on canvas. Stevens' images of women in interiors - reading letters, looking at their reflection in a mirror, arranging flowers - have a modern feel, due to their lack of anecdotal value.