Oh, she talks! When women come out of paintings

WRITTEN IN FRENCH

The paintings "The Birth of Venus" by Botticelli, "L'Arlésienne" by Van Gogh, "Blue Eyes" by Modigliani... are very famous. But who are the women who were their role models? In this realistic docu-fiction, thanks to a graphic cutting game moving from face to profile, 12 models of famous...

WRITTEN IN FRENCH

The paintings "The Birth of Venus" by Botticelli, "L'Arlésienne" by Van Gogh, "Blue Eyes" by Modigliani... are very famous. But who are the women who were their role models? In this realistic docu-fiction, thanks to a graphic cutting game moving from face to profile, 12 models of famous paintings speak and tell us about their lives as girls and women.

An animated book with cutouts
Through a graphic cutout applied to the painting, Claire Zucchelli, visual artist, isolates the profile of the model from the painting, and gives it a voice. Each portrait is presented on two double pages. On the first double, the profile cutout created by Claire Zucchelli is applied to the painting, isolating the model's face. On the second double, the table is presented in its entirety.

A set of portraits
The writer and art historian Nathalie Dargent paints with her talented pen 12 portraits, written in the first person, of these famous and mute women: Jeanne Hébuterne, Gabrielle d'Estrées, Olga the nurse, Hortensia the Egyptian, Berthe Morisot, Francisca Vélasquez, Liouba the peasant, Claudia the Italian, Marie Ginoux, Simonetta Vespucci, Paula Becker and Marilyn Monroe.

Feminist writing
From the little girl to the grown woman, from the aristocrat to the peasant, from the doctor of the Roman era to the painter of the 1900s, the author Nathalie Dargent, art historian, has documented each of these portraits. She interprets each person's individual aspiration for freedom and fulfillment, as well as the position of women in society at each of these eras.
A documentary-fiction rich in information on the condition of women and the personality of each of these models.

From 8 years old

French language
64 pages

Éditions Milan