Hippolyte Petitjean, French
“You Know, You Might Want To Put Something On, Courtney. These Woods are Crawling With Impressionists,” 1919
Oil on canvas
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Info, or links that point to more info, about this artist can be found here, here, here, here, here, here (can be read in full for free on Fridays), here, here, and here, perhaps in addition to what’s in his Wikipedia page (Google translated French Wikipedia page has more).
/// Women Bathing, a scene in low res.
The style’s pointillist, Petitjean says.
Could it be? I’m not sure.
(Fine details are obscure.)
There’s that cherry tree chopped by the Pres!
/// To our eyes now, this style seems archaic.
It resembles an ancient mosaic.
When nude women appear,
can’t they be sharp and clear?
We don’t care if you find that prosaic.
/// Petitjean preferred painting young lasses.
He would paint them without wearing glasses.
His abysmal eyesight,
(like strong drink, or dim light),
obscured flaws, so he always made passes.
/// Models know that his eyesight is such
that he can’t perceive details so much.
Therefore, since he can’t see,
they all have to agree
to allow him to “see” them by touch.
/// Wrapped around a petite-looking bod,
does that big purple towel look odd?
The large bulge at the front
makes it seem, to be blunt,
something’s hidden behind a façade.
/// Is this bathing girl “heavy with child,”
or is something there even more wild?
Out of sight, we can’t see,
behind towel and tree,
why the blonde bather looked there and smiled.
/// “Our new neighbor’s delectable daughter
brought her cousin along where she taught her.
how to swim. So I toss
silver dollars across
to entice them, nude, out of the water.”