Vilhelm Hammershøi, Danish
Lord Kensington and His Guests Were Probably Starting To Wonder Where Their Meat Course Had Disappeared To, But Screw It. Matilda Was About To Beat Her Candy Crush High Score!, 1888
Oil on canvas
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/// We don’t know why she’s facing away.
Her head’s bowed— to observe or to pray?
Was the model OK
that he chose to portray,
not her face, but how much she must weigh?
/// Hammershøi’s “Woman Seen from the Back,”
clearly isn’t the work of a hack.
Sets a sad lonely mood;
sparse, with colors subdued—
mostly tones of gray, beige, brown and black.
/// And this painting is just one of many
in which Vilhelm paints rear views, and then he
sets a minimal scene
somehow sad and serene.
He can paint faces, rarely shows any.
/// She’s a maid, from the way that she’s dressed.
Fully clothed, as are most of the rest
of the rear views he shows.
Were they not wearing clothes,
we might guess he prefers butt to breast.