les jeunes filles à la lumière des miroirs symboliques: balthus & mirrors

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Balthus & Mirrors (#NSFW)

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It’s #NSFW indeed.

You are warned.

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Google Image Search: Balthus

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What about mirrors?

art  mirrors  art    2014  © © Pierre and Balthazar Klossowski

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art  mirrors  art    2014  © © Rainer Maria Rilke, young Balthazar, and Baladine, his mother

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art  mirrors  art    2014  © © The First Communion (1926)

art  mirrors  art    2014  © © Piero della Francesca – Poliyptych of the Misericordia (1445)

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art  mirrors  art    2014  © © Piero della Francesca – The Flagellation of Christ (c.1450)

art  mirrors  art    2014  © © Piero della Francesca – Madonna of Senigallia (c.1470)

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Piero della Francesca – Queen of Sheba Worshipping the Wood of the Cross (1464) Piero della Francesca – Burial of the Holy Wood (1464)

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Piero della Francesca – Portraits Federico da Montefeltro and Battista Sforza (1465)

art  mirrors  art    2014  © © Church in the Beatenberg village near Berne

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Interior of the church in the Beatenberg

art  mirrors  art    2014  © © Frescos by Balthus (they didn’t survive)

art  mirrors  art    2014  © © Balthus – Le pont Neuf (1928)

art  mirrors  art    2014  © © Balthus – La Rue (1929)

art  mirrors  art    2014  © © Balthus – Study for La Rue (1929)

art  mirrors  art    2014  © © Balthus -The street (1933)

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art  mirrors  art    2014  © © Balthus in Morocco (1932)

art  mirrors  art    2014  © © Balthus - The Barracks (1933)

art  mirrors  art    2014  © © Balthus – The fear of ghosts (1933)

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art  mirrors  art    2014  © © Balthus - Lady Abdy (1935)

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Emily Brontë - Wuthering Heights (1847)

art  mirrors  art    2014  © © "...The Room is Haunted! I'm Afraid of Being Alone!"

art  mirrors  art    2014  © © Why have you this silk frok, then?

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art  mirrors  art    2014  © © Balthus - La toilette de Cathie (1933)

art  mirrors  art    2014  © © Man Ray – Balthus (1935)

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Children (1937) Because Cathy taught him what she learned … (Ch. 6) (1933)

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Guitar Lesson (1934) Pull his hair when you go by…

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art  mirrors  art    2014  © © Enguerrand Quarton – Pieta (1444)

art  mirrors  art    2014  © © Piero della Francesca - Madonna and Child with Saints and Duke of Urbino (1472) - detail

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art  mirrors  art    2014  © © Le roi des chats (The King of Cats) (1935)

art  mirrors  art    2014  © © Balthus – Andre Derain (1937) Balthus – Andre Derain (1937)

art  mirrors  art    2014  © © Girl with a cat (1937)

art  mirrors  art    2014  © © Balthus – Thérèse dreaming (1938)

art  mirrors  art    2014  © © Balthus – Thérèse (1938)

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Balthus - Self-portrait (1940)

art  mirrors  art    2014  © © Balthus – Alice at the mirror (1933)

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art  mirrors  art    2014  © © Balthus – Mountain (1937)

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art  mirrors  art    2014  © © Balthus – Les Beaux Jours (1944)

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art  mirrors  art    2014  © © Hisaji Hara – A study of ‘The Happy Days’ by Balthus (2009)

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Victoria Beckham for Allure 08. 2010

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art  mirrors  art    2014  © © Balthus – Nude with a cat (1949)

art  mirrors  art    2014  © © Balthus – Girl with a cat (1949)

art  mirrors  art    2014  © © Balthus – Room (1948)

art  mirrors  art    2014  © © Balthus - The Room (1947)

art  mirrors  art    2014  © © Balthus - Georgette dressing (1948)

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Gerard ter Borch - Three figures conversing in an interior, known as 'The paternal admonition' (1653)

art  mirrors  art    2014  © © Edgar Degas - At the mirror (1889)

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art  mirrors  art    2014  © © Balthus - Girl with mirror (1948)

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art  mirrors  art    2014  © © Balthus – Girl at the toilette (1949)

art  mirrors  art    2014  © © JT Winik - Long hair (Balthus Series) (2000)

art  mirrors  art    2014  © © Nude girl before the mirror (1955)

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art  mirrors  art    2014  © © Balthus – Study for Nude girl before the mirror (1955)

art  mirrors  art    2014  © © Balthus - Nude stepping out from the bath (1957)

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art  mirrors  art    2014  © © Balthus - Nude girl with the mirror (1981)

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art  mirrors  art    2014  © © Balthus – Three Sisters (1955)

art  mirrors  art    2014  © © Balthus - The Turkish Room (1963)

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art  mirrors  art    2014  © © Balthus – Japanese girl with a black mirror (1967)

art  mirrors  art    2014  © © Balthus – Japanese woman with red table (1967)

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art  mirrors  art    2014  © © Balthus – La patience (1943)

art  mirrors  art    2014  © © Balthus – Chassy by the fireplace at workshop (1955)

art  mirrors  art    2014  © © Balthus – Jeune fille à la fenêtre (1955)

art  mirrors  art    2014  © © Balthus – Young girl at the window (1957)

art  mirrors  art    2014  © © Balthus – Cat in the mirror (1977)

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art  mirrors  art    2014  © © Balthus – Cat in the mirror II (1986)

art  mirrors  art    2014  © © Balthus – Cat in the mirror III (1989)

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art  mirrors  art    2014  © © Duane Michals – Balthus and Setsuko (2000)

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art  mirrors  art    2014  © © Balthus – The Mediterranean Cat (1949)

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