Suzanne Valadon, French
When You Said You Knew a Smokin’ Model I Could Paint, This Isn’t What I Thought You Meant, 1923
Oil on canvas
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/// So, who is this here, lounging at home?
Skilled at fashioning forms out of foam?
Whose posed pictures were sent
to those equally bent?
It’s the husband of Ms. Kristi Noem.
/// Oops! It seems I was wrong, that’s no man.
She’s by model turned artist Suzanne
Valadon. Not a saint,
but she learned how to paint
while she posed for great artists who can.
/// In “The Blue Room” Suzanne here portrays
the new woman in various ways.
In an odalisque pose,
but in loose, comfy clothes,
she smokes, freed from the rules of “Men’s Gaze.”
/// She need not rely solely on looks,
or on how well she cleans house and cooks.
She can make her own rules
and will not suffer fools.
And she reads— on her bed are some books!
/// Watermelons are rounded and wide.
So is she; been called zaftig with pride.
Like the melon she’s seen
wearing stripes, white and green,
and they’re both pink and juicy inside.