A few hours before the end of the Lovis Corinth, between Impressionism and Expressionism exhibition we had the chance to meet the work of this artist in the Museum Orsay. Unfortunately photos were not allowed. Though before we were notified about this restriction we had already taken one. This paint is called "Jeune femme..." which means young woman sleeping. Lovis Corinth was one of the few painters that did not deal with only one topic-subject through his work. He was a specialist in portraits and self-portraits. He did more than 40 self-portraits. From 1900 onwards he used to create a self-portrait on the day before his birthday. Also he seemed to be inspired by mythological and religious subjects though not with intention to praise the mythological or religious person that were in them. He used to show the mythological and religious heroes like they were in reality, nude without their glowing aura that surrounded them. Corinth also was know as the painter of the flesh because he portrayed scenes of slaughter and nudes. He also painted landscapes. His most famous paint is Salome II where one can see the head of Saint John the baptist on a plate few moments after his decapitation and Salome just inspecting it from a close distance. This was his artistic turning point. But in my opinion the real turning point was when he had a stroke. He kept on painting after it.
This is not a Lovis Corinth paint. Just a paint in the Musee d' Orsay which now I can not recollect its title.
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